#Economy

David Milliken

david_milliken

Truly historic fall in UK economic output in Q2 - and a much bigger one than in euro zone or U.S. (though n.b. differences in timing of lockdown)https://reut.rs/2FjZyex ONS chart

Mike P. "Ontario Dad" Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅

MikePMoffatt

Interesting piece, though the first argument here is, frankly, bonkers, that there’s no recession here, simply a lockdown.Let’s consider some counterfactuals...https://twitter.com/jandrewpotter/status/1267215737497751553 Let’s imagine

Duarte 🇵🇹🇪🇺

FradeDuarte

Continuation: For me, $FVRR has the potential to be the biggest freelancer agency in the World and can solve 3 major problems:a) For creative agencies, who can find resources for

Christine Berry

oeufling

So the government have belatedly discovered the merits of state intervention and investment to support the economy. But they're still desperately trying to resuscitate the old economy when the pandemic

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JPGodfreyNZ

Here's a demonstration that Shakespeare knew a thing or two."Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour on the stage, and is heard

Kabiru Lawanti

kblawanty

Politically speaking it is the @APCNigeria that failed Nigerians in terms of insecurity, economy and confusions we see around. And @OfficialPDPNig compounded our problems by providing the weakest opposition ever

Claudia Sahm

Claudia_Sahm

disagree. Biden finally!!! gave establishment Dem macro/finance economic experts the boot. now Janet Yellen, Nellie Liang, Cecilia Rouse, and other economists are VERY prominent in the economic policy in this

Jai Kumar Jain

JaiKumarJain12

Narendra Modi is dealing with an exceptional crisis. No other PM has had to face such a situation that has impacted every part of India and every aspect of life.

Will Wilkinson 🌐

willwilkinson

The Heritage Foundation has released a re-opening plan woefully light on testing that's unlikely to put the economy on a path to recovery, but certain to get Americans killed.https://www.coronaviruscommission.com/recommendations?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT

Helen De Cruz

Helenreflects

Sarah Vine, conservative columnist, happy to sacrifice the old, BAME folks, people with poor immune systems to the economy. Problem with this line of reasoning we see over and over

ml8_ml8

ml8_ml8

A combination of micro-economics, principal-agent theory and corporate theory teaches us what I think may be the most intuitive yet least understood aspect of leadership and management, and in this

The Forge of Culture

Proletcultist

Why are communists treating GDP as a measure of success of a socialist nation? Its vulgar Mussoliniite prouctivism that leads to this kind of inane bullshit. GDP is a measure

America Great Again

WeSurvivedObama

Wonder why #FakeNewsMedia #FakeNews doesn’t talk about this comparison as #America #economy is #shutdown #Flu Update: As of April 2020#USA 45 million infected300,000 hospitalizations46,000 deaths from flu#COVID19365,067 infected13,799 dead..#Wednesda

David Rothkopf

djrothkopf

Testing, testing & testing. Social distancing. Providing healthcare workers & institutions with the resources they need. Providing free access to healthcare to all & health coverage for those who've lost

Aylan (AY like Day - LAN like LandBack) Couchie

AylanX

Choosing Genocide We're living in a moment where people are debating sacrificing lives to save the economy and few are talking about how genocidal this thinking really is. It's a

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/4I don't know how you can credibly model these things, especially given the difficulty of accounting for the impact of debt, but you get the same conclusion simply from the