#Economic

unseen1

unseen1_unseen

1. Over the last 18-24 months the left has continued to fail against @realDonaldTrump . One of the main reasons for this constant failure is they never bothered to read

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Not that rationality has anything to do with this, but the GOP attack on CA really involves denial of plain facts. The state has problems — but not the ones

IGC Cities that Work

IGC_CtW

Great article on 'Air pollution: A silent killer in Lagos' from @WBG_Poverty @WBG_Cities. Scary facts: Ambient air pollution caused losses of $2.1 billion in 2018, This = 2.1% of Lagos

Walker Bragman

WalkerBragman

This is the home of Joseph Morrison, one of the Michigan men recently arrested for his plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.Can we acknowledge that maybe economic circumstances play a

The Economic Standard

econstandard

The Economic Standard is proud to present our first white paper: Hydroxychloroquine and the Burden of Proofhttp://HCQWhitePaper.com We demonstrate why #HCQ should be more widely recommended, prescribed and promoted to treat

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/9We're in the worst recession since the Great Depression, but the S&P 500 is within striking distance of its ALL TIME HIGH. 25 years ago, as a young reporter, I’d

Alastair Parvin

AlastairParvin

Interesting trivia (learned via @chezcorbay): the term capitalism was actually first coined by Marx as a critique of government-by-owning-classes, not as a consciously designed economic model. For example, Adam Smith

John Turner

ProfJohnTurner

The Irish border and Northern Ireland will be 100 on 3 May. This week at @EconObservatory we marked partition with a series of articles which looked at the economics and

Chris Pope

CPopeHC

Restaurant sales in April were 50% of the level in February. Higher than I would have guessed.https://restaurant.org/Articles/News/Restaurant-sales-fell-to-lowest-level-in-35-years Many retail sectors are suffering much more than the restau

Read Old Books Club

OldBookClub

#NowReading America's Protectionist Takeoff, 1815-1914: The Neglected American School of Political Economy (2010) by Michael Hudson Bush Calls More Open Trade a 'Moral Imperative' for U.S.By David Stout, May 7,

Emeka Azuka Okoye

EmekaOkoye

Well said @asemota. Let me explain reinventing the wheel".Most folks who shout tech don't understand how it builds societies, grow and accelerate economies.Tech is sexy but it comes from science

Duncan Wood

AztecDuncan

Open thread. @Edo_Granpa asked me to opine on Mx & OPEC+. Here goes:1. We all know by now that the government is blindly committed to increasing production - nothing (not

Olé

Olez

1. Thirdway started in the most random fashion. By a few friends who would meet for lunch quite often 2. First it was just random thoughts about how to have

Peter Ganong

p_ganong

.@BLS_gov changed seasonal adjustment and has not provided any conversion factors. We do.Bottom line: new procedure lowers estimated new UI claimsold method would have given 1010K new method given 881K

Matthew Greenberg

greenycapital

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/10511522/ this paper (written in 1999) estimates the impact on the US economy of $71.3-$166.5 bn for an influenza epidemic that led to just 314k-734k hospitalizations, 18-42 mil outpatient visits,

Duncan Hothersall

dhothersall

Seems I've annoyed a few people by criticising the STUC's stance on #indyref2. Well I'm pretty annoyed too, to be told that rather than assess the likely impact of independence