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IceCap

IceCapGlobal

1/ Most Central Banks are now at 0% or NEG% overnight rates. Here's a composite of G10 overnight rates. 2/ Most central banks are also engaged in QE. Here's balance

Tiffany Green

Tiffany_L_Green

Thank you for writing this @itsafronomics, though you shouldn't have had to. I keep seeing some wringing of hands of non-black economists on what they can do, as if we

10-K Diver

10kdiver

1/Get a cup of coffee.In this thread, I'll help you work out how much money you need to retire. 2/The goal is simple.You want to accumulate a *large* portfolio of

Aaron Hanlon

AaronRHanlon

1) This is good and informative. I want to add something about a component of what this reporting reveals, which is the view that tenured faculty don't know or care

Tomas Hirst

tomashirstecon

The 100% guarantees became necessary because getting loan funding to the worst affected sectors via commercial banks with risk limits required it. The choice over what to do next (allow

St. Rev ☯️🏴😻

St_Rev

This seems important, and there's a related point that I've only seen mentioned once, in a comment thread on an econ blog.Discussion of R0 tends to treat it as a

Simone Butera

butera_simone

MORE IMPORTANT THAN BITCOINBitcoin Twitter is a great community, but I think there's something about #Bitcoin that's more important than Bitcoin itself.Am I about to shill something? Keep reading

taga-suklay ng buhok ni IU

umiigpaw

legit tho stan mga bata sa kalye. grabe sobrang dinemonize sila sakin ng pamilya ko dati eh hello? social skills? multiple talents? street smart? stamina? nasa kanila lahat. eh ako

Husnain Fateh

husnain_fateh

1/ The government is loosening lockdown requirements allowing "skill-based" jobs. https://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/541071-Federal-Cabinet-coronavirus-situation-countryHere's a ECON 101 argument for why this is not just a bad idea, but t

Chirantan Chatterjee

chiruchat

#VirtualMBATeaching tip: Even with something mathy like #microeconomics, just toss in a #McKinsey report in your slides. You can speak of cool #experiments & #econometric estimation w/big data, but the

Paul Maidowski

_ppmv

What IR & pol sci say on climate & decarbonization is mostly: 1) narrow UNFCCC focus (the classical policy field 'climate / energy policy'); & 2) a generic mix of

Jeongmin Kim

jeongminnkim

Breaking: North Korean state media says the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) was held on Sunday. More soon @nknewsorg STORY UPNorth Korea lays out budget plans, personnel changes at parliamentary meeting:

Ron Hira

RonHira

Will Biden do anything about the corrosive effects of outsourcing on US workers?Doubtful. Larry Summers helped create current international trading regime that shifted wealth and income from US workers to

Joe Emersberger

rosendo_joe

1/ This report basically reiterates HRW’s support and whitewash of murderous US sanctions. Some pointshttps://twitter.com/TamaraTaraciuk/status/1265228438295777280 2/ HRW shamelessly depicts Vnzla as a potential regional threat due to COV

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

Coming up on #BBCNewsSix & #BBCNewsTen what keeping wheels of industry turning during a global pandemic looks like - a socially distanced production line at UK bike manufacturer Brompton..As BBC

Aaron Hanlon

AaronRHanlon

1) Some thoughts on a phenomenon: The academic who openly advocates against other academic disciplines. ... 2) I understand why some academics would think their subject is more important or