#Economic

Jared Bernstein

econjared46

Thread: stimulus/relief not equal to investment.Twice in the last 2 days I've heard someone ask the question in reference to the American Jobs and Family Plans: "Does the US really

Andrzej Kozlowski

akoz33

A fascinating blog post by Andrei Illarionov, considers carefully the infection and death rates due to coronavirus in different parts of Italy. He points out the big differences between different

Blake H. Thomas

blakehthomas

I’m happy to announce that my @SLCoRegionalDev team released years worth of business & economic research this morning! When we undertook this project, we were looking to improve the lives

Aaron Rankin

Aaron_R_Rankin

Forgetting for a moment that the EU itself is a serial breaker of international law (see the recent German Constitutional Court decision) & the fact we haven’t actually seen what

Heidi Przybyla

HeidiNBC

To recap the #RNCConvention:1. Trump did not inherit a stagnant economy.Growth = slower than Obama's last 3 years, even before corona2. Biden is not proposing tax hikes on anyone earning

Jack'sHouseOfPancakes

RegimeChangeInc

1) THE POOR: Buddhism teaches that nothing just happens. A series of causes and conditions leads up to it. Now the rich blame the poor for their own poverty. In

Greg

greg_scott84

WHAT IS THE GREAT RESET?1) Read the highlights carefully and think about how "The Great Reset" is being promoted worldwide. This ties into Covid, 'climate change' and BLM. 2) There

Robert H Frank

econnaturalist

Economic Naturalist Question #2: Why do brides often spend thousands of dollars on wedding dresses they will never wear again, while grooms typically rent cheap tuxedos, even though they will

Raunak Shah

raunak246

Notes from @paraschopra and @kunalb11's podcast:1) Two kinds of startups: One that increases efficiency in existing behaviour, and the other that creates new behaviours. 2) In absence of future data,

Jason Hickel

jasonhickel

This is remarkable: 170 Dutch academics put together a 5-point manifesto for economic change after the C19 crisis, building on #degrowth principles. It has gone viral in Dutch media. In

FR

agniasambara

I don't exactly know who needs to hear this (middle-class Indonesian gays out there, perhaps), but queer liberation alone (i.e., in terms of cultural recognition) will NOT save us without

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

The ideal of the Middle Class is to minimize the social status differences that arise from occupations. It means that someone who works all their life in an Amazon warehouse

Jack Buckby

jackbuckby

Far-left and far-right extremists are using the COVID economy to normalise radical/race-based economic & social policy, and to recruit.My research paper for @FrontierCentre explains how they're doing it, & how

david_mcnair

David_McNair

THREAD: When I heard this I didn’t believe it: 99% of Nigeria’s Federal Budget was spent on debt relief in Q1. So I asked my team to check and it's

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

Quick Thread. You've heard of China's "Belt and Road" but do you know what it is? Are you too embarrassed to ask you're friends? Are they too embarrassed to tell

HindsightCapital™️

Data_Junkie_

if transfer payments hit ~35% of incomes... as a weighted avg in the U.S.does that mean the median is like 60%? a visual of economic imbalances with stats... i mean