#Economy

BREAKING: The Fed on Thursday unveiled emergency programs that could dole out more than $2 trillion in lending to businesses of all sizes, as well as to struggling state and
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THREAD: Market-Cap Weighting under Policy Dominance (Fiscal nGDP Targeting)The disadvantages of market-cap (mcap) weighting are well known. Here, I want to elaborate on a benefit that it might offer, which
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Can I just say that Wales is poor in relative terms because of capitalism, not inherently because of the union. The issue lies in how wedded the UK is to
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For much of my career I assumed people *knew* claims like these were political theater and not to be taken seriously.But now I think, more and more, that it’s important
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the problem with c*vid, and every other colonial virus, is that the spawning body, the ca*casians, cannot and will not stay quarantined enough for it to have been contained. so
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With so many discussions lately about private vs public employees at Alberta hospitals doing the very necessary work of cleaning and sanitization, there has been a lot of speculation about
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Just like the 2019 session, I have filed a bill to start addressing the massive failure of TX policy regarding wind power. We have small reserves of reliable, dispatchable thermal
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The high drama of the OPEC+ meeting is certainly exciting, particularly for tweeps like me who study global oil history.But there's a bigger picture.The actions of energy producers will have
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IMPORTANT THREAD RE: CHINA 1/nBack in March, near the beginning of the US lockdown, I warned those predicting a US economic "supply shock," stemming the fall in exports by China
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1/8Although I sympathize with Stephen King’s frustration at some of the sillier things proposed in the name of MMT, I think it is deceptive to suggest that government borrowing today
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What is asset manager capitalism? (How) does index fund dominance change the political economy of corporate governance? This has taken me forever. It's a first working paper, focused on the
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That a Biden presidency will fix many of our issues is BS. I live in CA, the world’s 5th largest economy, & we have the most corrupt Democratic politicians who
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Thread about the reactionary movie: John Carpenter’s “They Live” The movie is about a blue collar worker, played by Roddy Piper, who is forced to relocate to find work. The
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If levelling up is replacing with new central funding the Christmas lights that local councils had to cut due to central funding cuts then,... it'll probably win loads of votes
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Shortly after the 2nd World War a man who had been a 5 star General in the Army, who FDR wouldn't let got to Europe bc he needed her in
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Our food banks are overwhelmed, under-resourced and the only thing standing between millions of Americans and hunger.Since the middle of March, more than 26 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits
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