#Economic

Sebastian Payne

SebastianEPayne

Downing Street says the UK will not ask for a Brexit extension nor accept one if the EU offers due to certainty:"We will not extend the Brexit transition period and

Vijay Boyapati

real_vijay

1/ Bloomberg published a piece today uncovering the fact that BCash has very little merchant adoption, despite @rogerkver's unrelenting effort to promote it to merchants as a low-fee payment rail.

Arien Malec

amalec

1/Yes! Surveillance is in the policy discussion. Now we need to do it. & it's not as bad as the article suggests -- much of the infrastructure is there. It

Ben Bleasdale

Ben_Bleasdale

The 2020-21 allocations for R&D are out, and they'rehttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-research-and-development-rd-budget-allocations-2020-to-2021/beis-research-and-development-budget-allocations-2020-to-2021Significant

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

The report does not explicitly consider the economic/health impact of different mitigation measures. For instance, the scenario of a 18-month lockdown would devastate the economy and could hence reduce life

Cash App

CashApp

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Aisha Yesufu

AishaYesufu

Buhari's govt is extremely deceitful. In 2016 it increased the price of petrol from N86 to N145 and said it had stopped subsidy and deregulated the oil sector. Many welcomed

EFCC Nigeria

officialEFCC

EFCC Arrests 14 Internet Fraudsters In EnuguOperatives of the Enugu zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) have arrested fourteen suspected internet fraudsters, from different parts of

Kathryn Anne Edwards

keds_economist

Yesterday my first commissioned op-ed ran in the Dallas Morning News. In it, I outline why economic recovery from this recession should include comprehensive child care, from ages 0-18. (thread

UK Rants: #GodSaveTheQueen.

uk_rants

A big factor in this whole "breakup of UK" that many ignore?The politics of self-promotion.Scotland? Krankie doesn't want #IndyRef2, until she is sure she can win it. She knows that's

Per Block

block_per

How can we devise smart social distancing measures that keep the curve flat? Our new pre-print introduces a network science approach to alleviate the social and economic costs of social

Aaron Bady

zunguzungu

The point of observing that people like Josh Hawley are doing faux economic populism is not that they are *sincere*; it's that, because most of the Democratic Party so nakedly

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jordanbanner161

Scott Morrison is Setting the Stage to Jail Environmental Activists – a thread on the potential repression of environmental protesters after responses to #BlockadeIMARC and how the Government is further

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

0/Study gives better estimates of the number of COVID19 deaths and the number of deaths due to lowered healthcare during lockdowns.https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2020/july/new-approach-to-recording-covid-deaths/ 2/“The authors h

Rajiv Sethi

rajivatbarnard

Wrote this piece on financing pandemic resilience with Glenn Hubbard of @Columbia over the past few days, will summarize main points here (thread)https://twitter.com/rajivatbarnard/status/1260564384029474816 The economic crisis we face is the

Darrin

gotgilkk

1: These statement are simply untrue. Let’s look at who he is speaking to: in the first part of his tweet: “Your 401k’s” — only ~32% of Americans are investing