#Economy

Toby Young

toadmeister

We published a must-read summary of the situation in India by Prof Ramesh Thakur, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, on @LD_Sceptics this morning. You want context? Read

Lexi Alexander الكسندرا ميراي

Lexialex

People are getting evictedhttps://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1291111736167211008 The amount of people who don’t see anything wrong with this dude flashing his Corvette while 42 million people are unemployed and this is the line

Cormac Ryan

CormacRyan01

The past few weeks has left me questioning the decency of society a bit. I think we've lost sight of the fundamental reasons of why things are the way they

Frontier Indica

frontierindica

One major hole in the theory that the relationship between the twice born castes, particularly Brahmins, and the remaining castes was primarily of a parasitical nature is that in pre-modern

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Gig economy delivery apps claim that they're operating "two-sided markets," connecting delivery people with restaurants. Actually, they're useless, overcapitalized, predatory, money-haemorrhaging parasites.1/ They raise ti

Amanda Larsson

ecomanda

"With a historic majority under MMP, @jacindaardern has the ability to take transformative action. If she doesn't, her overriding legacy will not be her conquest of Covid-19, but rather her

izzy💛 @ verdant wind

itsizzy_12

Intl moots! I’ll be tweeting a lot abt what’s happening in indonesia rn. Govn is going to pass a law that can erase a lot of workers’ rights such as

Alicia A. Wallace

_AliciaAudrey

I'm coming back to expand on this, but the emergency order is being continued (9pm curfew on weekdays, complete lockdown on weekends) until June 29, 2020. In short, this would

jgz

jennygzhang

a year ago today, i started my first staff writing job after 2.5 years on the newsletters/audience side. i had never imagined that i could someday write for a living.

Jorge J Rodríguez V

JJRodV

The thing I miss *least* about white evangelical spaces are the constant binary “questions for the debate”: free will or predestination, free markets or government control, etc. People would “debate”

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ Thanks, @nassefi, and thanks, @edyong209 for writing this. My husband @GrantWahl showed me the piece this morning. I'm still processing my feelings about this. We the #COVID #coronavirus pandemic

John Cole

Johngcole

He doesn’t like to read, he doesn’t like music, he doesn’t care about art or poetry, or fine dining. He doesn’t laugh. He doesn’t laugh at himself. He is joyless.

siobhon rumurang

siobhonm

idk who you think the face of sovereignty and liberation work in guåhan is but it should be anyone living in poverty because poor people here have been telling you

Ring of Fire

Saros129

1. Debt Forgiveness WWThis is HUGE.$1.6 Trillion in Chinese Bonds discovered in Lewisville, TN Bond House could result in forgiveness of all debts of all countries. Negotiations have been underway

Victor Nguyễn-Long #StopAsianHate

VNL

I think @JVLast nails it: "Republican voters—a group distinct from Conservatism Inc.—no longer have any concrete outcomes that they want from government. What they have, instead, is a lifestyle brand."But

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

This is NOT a scandal.The entire point is to get money out to everyone shut down. The idea that there are any 'healthy' businesses right now is largely fiction.https://twitter.com/kasie/status/1252642588798136321 Now,