#Economy

1. This week in Ag Data News, I write about New Zealand. It's the land without agricultural subsidies and it's where I grew up on a sheep farm.https://asmith.ucdavis.edu/news/new-zealands-farmers-dont-want-governments-money 2. What
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1. We know you've been overwhelmed with #Coronavirus news, & it’s hard to know what's real and what's not. We want to make sure you know just how real and
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It's time for those of us who want the Govt to follow Covid policy based on the science & the data (rather than scaremongering & opinion polls) made ourselves heard.
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Thread on building reactionary Institutional Power through:1) Home Base2) Local Economy3) Culture War 1) Build Home> Marry a virtuous woman> Move to my people & place> Grow my own food
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Tuesday Morning Update: Today we're focusing on stimulus payments, which should begin to arrive in the next 8 days. For those who will be receiving a stimulus payment, you likely
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Updated charts still to come, but bottom line from August @BLS_gov data: #AsianWomen continue to suffer the largest increase in #unemployment of *all* race/gender categories; the rate was 3.0% in
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1/6 There's two types of comments in this HUGE thread:- those who WANT #UBI so they can have life stability- those who HAVE stability and DON'T want it for othersWhy
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#Finland conducted the worlds first national #BasicIncome experiment and the results came out today.It was found that the effects that a basic income had on #employment were marginal, but the
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ThreadSEE?@realDonaldTrump knows EXACTLY what he's doing.Let them talk long enough, and they say things that bring down the entire party.https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/07/07/ilhan-omar-calls-for-dismantling-of-americas-economy-and
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A great conversation with @NPRKelly just now helped me crystallize some thoughts on Russia and the West. In the spirit of twitter, written without nuance. Comments welcome. THREAD 1/ Conventional
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This morning a friend of mine sent me an email wishing me a Happy Easter, and attaching a link to the below article (as part of an ongoing debate). It
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You have too be too dumb to not know what's happening around in the world & that our testing rate is among the lowest. If Vietnam or all other smaller
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I am going to do a thread of reasons to end the lockdown or at least go to stage 3. NEASA employers assoc. surveyed its members & 86% of 10
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It is possible for some countries to sorta turn their economy off and back on with modest pain. Not possible here. We don't have a working health care system, unemployment
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If the Nigerian Govt wants Boko Haram to end in 6 Months..They can.But ending Boko Haram means the war economy and money making opportunities for their cronies will end.So they
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The wicked problem for everyone who believes in a better future for Nigeria is how to capture value from our assets. Can we agree that until we solve for talent
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