#Spending

Judd Legum

JuddLegum

1. The Georgia runoff elections are revealing the massive gaps in our campaign finance disclosure system. We have no idea who is spending $40 million+ to support Loeffler and Perdue

Diane Swonk

DianeSwonk

Downward revisions to the Oct & Nov income & consumer spending data make the December data look worse than headlines would suggest. Looks like about 64% of the gain in

James A. Robichaux

JamesRobichaux

Then you'd be unemploying plenty of military personnel and military-industrial complex workers, and you'd suddenly need many, many more dollars in survival checks.How does a former LABOR Secretary not know

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

NO EPIDEMIOLOGISTS RISKING Thanksgiving dinner: I answered this NYTimes poll to professional @societyforepi epidemiologists— here is how 635 epidemiologists are spending Thanksgiving and the holidays. Vast majority just keeping to

Laura Karpuska

laukarpuska

What type of spending rules can better overcome legislative inefficiencies? @mazzimon77, @gp_mihalache and I study two types of spending rules, one that makes it mandatory the provision of public goods

Jack Salmon

_JackSalmon_

This report is entirely ignorant of decades of academic literature on fiscal consolidation. Spending cuts have negligible effects on growth and sometimes positive effects. See Alesina, Giavazzi, Ardagna, Romer &

Kevin Hague

kevverage

well now, this contains such a ludicrous assertion that i have to indulge in a brief thread - stick with me, it’s a doozy(1/6)https://twitter.com/andrewwilson/status/1355578115070832642 for this statement to make sense,

Family Income Support Team at CBPP

TeamTANF_CBPP

How are states spending their federal #TANF and state MOE funds? Our annual update on TANF spending, the third of our annual papers, is available.https://www.cbpp.org/research/family-income-support/to-lessen-hardship-states-should-invest-mo

Rick Tyler-Still Right

rickwtyler

1/8 The focus on the stimulus portion of the spending bill Trump signed last night misses the much larger significance of Trump’s capitulation.After the now familiar bluff and bluster signifying

Stephen Williamson

1954swilliamson

1/I was looking for a clear statement of the key takeaway from MMT. Particularly in the media stories, some written by S.K. herself, the story is so vague that it

Shashank Joshi

shashj

Genuinely impressive investment at a time of eye-watering deficits everywhere. But hope speech has some detail on (1) how this fits into broader foreign and security policy vision, and (2)

Julian Gravatt

JulianGravatt

1/6. IFS's 3rd annual report on education spending out today. 175 pages but the summary here covers the key points. They released the school section in September but there's some

Howard Axelroark 💊

axelroark

[Thread]Today I will conclude my war with the bears. I've said my peace, and hopefully made my point to those that will truly think with an objective lens. However, there

Sac Bunt Chris

SacBuntChris

The test of whether the Padres' explanation that pulling out of their deal with young Latin American players was due to Covid related spending restrictions is realistic will be if

Torsten Bell

TorstenBell

Something we didn't have time to do justice to overnight... defence spending. I think most people will be quite surprised by what is going on You'll remember a few weeks

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/6I hope Joe Biden and his administration are serious about this stimulus spending, especially if it is directed to much-needed infrastructure. For those who are worried about where the money

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