#Bailouts

Lindsay Wiley

ProfLWiley

We're doing this all wrong. We've been doing it all wrong from day 1. Social distancing and face covering were never meant to be a strategy by themselves. They were

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The Obama administration inherited a vast economic crisis. They responded with Quantitative Easing, pumping trillions into the finance sector to rescue the banks that had knowingly gambled on bad mortgages,

Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard 🔶

DivestHarvard

We're starting a thread with some ideas we've come across for how you can help those most impacted by #covid19.This list is far from comprehensive — we may add more ideas

Rudy Havenstein, Elysium ESG Diversity Officer

RudyHavenstein

This is a fun party game.Download the Fed's TALF-borrower Excel file, and look to see if you got billions in very cheap non-recourse loans! #FedHistory https://www.federalreserve.gov/regreform/reform-talf.htm Spoiler alert: You are

Just Jeff

jeffieyboy

1/ (Thread)How Trump/Q will install a new ECONOMY without anyone knowing:Remember when Trump signed an executive order "Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption"?#WWG1WGAWORLDWIDE

Sally Rugg

sallyrugg

It’s June 29 babeeyyyy!If you’ve got money you can part with between now and getting your tax return (a few weeks if you do it on time apparently!?) I encourage

Phil 🆓🌍🧩🎲

Phil_Free_

“The banks wrote the Federal Reserve act, which gave them licence to issue the nation’s money. They couldn’t believe their luck when Congress voted it through.This was secretly written at

Sayed Tabatabai, MD

TheRealDoctorT

I’m brushing my teeth in the morning. For a moment, I glance up at myself in the mirror. A thought occurs to me.How different could my life have been?No matter.

Comrade Fudge

HNIJohnMiller

Here it is, you all asked for it. Well, some of you did. ... one of you did, I swear.Anyways, whether you wanted it or not, here is the transcript

Christof Spieler, PE, AICP, LEED AP

christofspieler

As we talk transportation, urbanism, cities, and racism, Transit agencies, and the transit industry, should not assume we are the good guys, or, as @Jay_Pitter put it, “bringers of solution.”

Dougie Kass

DougKass

My @realdonaldtrump "No Apologies Tour" continues:Coronalitics?During a time when the nation desperately needs coherent guidance to address a nationwide threat, the coronavirus pandemic has been reduced to a political volleyball.

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

A recurring viral genre during the lockdown is photos of signs on the front doors of low-waged establishments (especially fast food restaurants) asking customers to have patience with long wait-times

Brad Ward

heyitsbradw

There are arguments for and against, but America's economy really does need another stimulus package. Jay Powell says we will not "overdo" stimulus, and he's right! There is more need

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

1. I've been pretty aggressive about pointing out progressives got crushed, but I don't have a strategy going forward. That's because admitting defeat and figuring out what to do has

Dr Aloy Chife

ChifeDr

NIGERIA: THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND ITS AFTERMATH“To speak or not to speak”, might well be PMB’s prerogative nevertheless it is a red herring. The real and urgent debate Nigerians ought

Rai ling 🏴

Railing56

Why is the US stock market skyrocketing despite record unemployment, extreme uncertainty and people dying across the world? The answer is a combination of technical factors, contractual rebalancing of portfolios