#Demand

We did a few of these today. Eleanore's dad has done tree work for years and I worked for a tree service once, so we have an idea of what
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What's up! I'm vacation! Let's talk about why board games get cheaper the longer they've been out and why it's important to pay full price vs discounted. Righto! So I've
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A few thoughts on the piece by @DeatonAngus which culminates in: "RCTs have no unique advantages or disadvantages over other empirical methods in economics." Disclaimer: I've run RCTs for a
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NatWest, Barclays, Midlands, Lloyds. Black horse apocalypse? Or vital tools of prosperity!Today in pulp I'm looking at money. Lots of it... Money is just a token, like a Panini football
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All I have is my VOICEI am part of a generation of Nigerians who have lived most of their adult lives under ‘democratic’ rule and yet, I woke up today
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"COVID-19 and its economic consequences for the Euro Area" - That is the title of a paper that Michael Paetz and I wrote and that was published last month. Let
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1/ When Trump ran for office and then won, many of us who knew how dangerous he would be were told to stop worrying over nothing. We were told about
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1/ As a state leader, you cannot hide from the virus. What you can do is mandate masks, ramp up your testing, require symptomatic folks to isolate, and restrict large
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Why People Love to Owe You (and how you can fix that).I have seen many small businesses complain about running into debts/losses because people (read: friends & family) always ask/expect
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Why have 300 million people been protesting in India? A few people have asked me about this so thought I’d offer a handy summary thread (1/22) Small farmers make up
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Caution : ThreadHere I have analysed 2019 TN LS election outcome to arrive at the likely assembly seats that DMK and ADMK alliances would have obtained if LS and Assembly
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We need to talk about UK politics. More specifically we need to talk about the absence of opposition to a no-deal Brexit risking Scottish independence, Northern Irish peace, the end
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Donald Trump is nearly an hour late for his own rally, but apparently the medication finally kicked in because the Big Guy finally walked onto stage. The visual is striking:
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Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) have turned out to be a wildly successful strategy for automobile manufacturers.In Europe, for all the press pure Electric Vehicles get, PHEVs are now
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As Uganda braces for results this weekend, wanted to share some of past research on abuses there, all of which is to say that addressing impunity and security sector reform
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Yup. Operation Warp Speed is paying off.Very likely Trump is right & there’s a working vaccine by year’s end.https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1285929634224312322?s=20 Can’t wait to see Democratic Party leaders & the DNC Med
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