#Economic

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

"Trump and esp Kushner are responsible for the pandemic response. The Trump Crime Family needs to retain power; they'll do whatever it takes. They'll try to steal the election. And

Sarah Joseph

SarahIJoseph

A powerful @BBCNewsnight this evening with @maitlis #covid19 exposes the complexities & inequalities of our political, economic & social systems. The fault lines have been laid bare. Austerity didn’t just

Heshmat Alavi

HeshmatAlavi

THREAD1)These are rough times for #Iran’s regime.-Restive society due to rising coronavirus deaths, cases-Economy crumbling-Losing influence in Iraq, Syria-Hezbollah further sanctioned, militias in Syria pounded by airstrikesLet me explain. 2)State

Jake M. Grumbach

JakeMGrumbach

New APSR from @LeoBaccini & @SJWeymouth shows that manufacturing losses pushed whites toward GOP & white identity politics, but pushed Black & Latinos toward Dems. It's not race vs economics--they're

Ritchie Torres

RitchieTorres

READ: @DRichards13 and I make the case for creating 20K new jobs in a time of depression-level unemployment. We owe it to the jobless to create jobs, not destroy them,

Dr Sara Hastings-Simon

S_HastingsSimon

Alberta is now trying to attract new met coal production. Globally there is growing interest and tech for low carbon steel production to reduce/replace coal use in steel making -

Los Angeles Times

latimes

Nearly one in three renters in the U.S. failed to pay their April rent at the beginning of the month, a landlord industry group has warned(via @latimesopinion)https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-09/renter-bail-out-rent-forgiveness It’s not

Michael Bayer

mbayer1248

One of the things that is truly conspicuous to me is the collective abdication of prophetic leadership by the U.S. Catholic bishops on matters of fundamental justice in recent years.

☭Linus☭

KamratLinus

Currently re-reading Bill Bland's "Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union" Would highly recommend ya'll to read it. https://revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/BlandRestoration.pdf It's pretty funny how the news

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

There are few things less important for the future of America right now than the stock market. But the disconnect between rising stocks and everything else is still interesting. So

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

It should say “us” in there, but this diagram could be the Team Reality logo. Don’t know why this is so hard for media screamers to see: even 61,000 deaths

MaryJoanna

MaryJoannaP

Ok my lovelies, let's talk about Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxembourg.In this book she basically annihilates Eduard Bernstein and the Revisionist theory. She explains that credit not only aggravates

The UK in a Changing Europe

UKandEU

Welcome to the next in our #AcademicintheSpotlight series that promotes social scientists doing innovative & dynamic research that you really ought to be aware of. This week is the turn

JamesSmithRF

JamesSmithRF

New edition of @resfoundation's Macroeconomic Policy Outlook out today which focusses on the macro drivers of the labour market (with @jackhleslie)Tl;dr: risk of a larger-than-expected unemployment rise demands policy action.Short

Arvind Subramanian

arvindsubraman

Final *central* government revenue numbers for fiscal year 2019-20 for India released on Friday by Controller General of Accounts (CGA). Some confusion on their interpretation. Four take-aways 1/n 1. CGA

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

Is it strange to anyone else that virtually none of the reporting on rising violence in US cities is making links to the economic catastrophe — job losses, evictions —