#Economics

Let's talk about the Shmoo, and how it's become part of multiple fields of science & medicine as well as being a global cultural phenomenon.It was a creature invented in
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Have you ever reflected on your life and realized how far you have come. Like...I was so poor as a child, I didn't have a meal everyday. I remember when
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Why aren't colleges taking more out of their endowments? I'm not an expert by any means, but I've been elected to my college's budget committee so I spent some time
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Where TF do I begin to unpack the "coddling" that today's 18-year-olds experience? Let me start with tuition. Yale tuition/room/board in 1976, when the author of this op-ed graduated, was
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I have my own understanding of Indian economy. I don’t know whether it is recognised in formal economics or not. When people earn more (whether they declare it or not
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Thread :While my platform is not large, I need to get something that has been bothering me off my chest! Lately, I have noticed that many news outlets have been
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Nothing Biden proposed last night was "radical."It was an uncontroversial plan to modernize America after decades of intentional destruction on behalf of the wealthy and powerful.We have to recognize how
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Why calling Trinidad & Tobago a "third world country" makes you seem just a little bit dense: A THREAD In modern society the term "third world" is used to
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.......More information on Race, African Americans, and COVID-19. Data and Race - https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate/amp?__twitter_impression=true. 1/ Publ
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This is a worth reading; I wanna come at this from the perspective of someone who, based on the economics of ttrpg right now, would have to win so
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1/ Thought experiment: let's say one company invents a miracle machine (the replicator from StarTrek!) that produces every product we can imagine at near zero cost. They keep the machine
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What was remarkable about the Trump American history conference was the sense -- at least simply based on the list of participants and Trump's speech itself -- that they've lost
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in science there are “rules” and “exceptions.” rules provide consensus and patterns, while exceptions provide outliers that challenge (prove) the rules. in hard sciences like physics, a virtual 100% consensus
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1/n Recently been thinking about how, in depressed industries, picks-and-shovels co's with stronger models have been beaten just down as much, if not more, as their capital incinerating customers.i.e.AirlinesEnergy For
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The only reason the UK wouldn't set up a charter city for ALL Hong Kongers, on some empty piece of land on the coast somewhere, is that it seems weird
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Let’s talk about the economics of live music. Tonight, @carseatheadrest was to perform at @TowerTheatreOKC (before COVID). This obviously would have sold us out, and to snag this show on
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