#Fiscal

Tren Griffin

trengriffin

"Pensions in Hawaii & South Carolina using arcane options strategy called cash-secured put writing" http://www.wsj.com/articles/pensions-play-with-puts-for-protection-1471777202 Guessing is fun! The pension funds are apparently writing

SA Reserve Bank

SAReserveBank

The COVID-19 outbreak will produce the worst economic downturn in a century. We expect that ‘the great lockdown’ will cause output to contract by about 7% this year. During the

Sarah Vine

SarahVAtDSC

1/ 7Prof Cheryl Thomas' research into the justice system provides the most powerful illustration of why no one who cares about racial equality would countenance suspending or limiting access to

Michael R. Strain

MichaelRStrain

THREAD. The success of Congress’s efforts to support the economy in this once-in-a-century crisis seems to have undermined the perceived need for those efforts to continue.My latest Bloomberg column: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti

Patrick Spencer

pspencerCSJ

ANOTHER THREAD ... In today's @FT @martinwolf_ says: "The Tories have provided dreadful government, from post-crisis fiscal austerity at the expense of the vulnerable, to the idiocy of Brexit".... a

Michael Atkins

atkinsmike1

South Africa has quietly entered a phase (!?) of Quantitative Easing (printing money), to keep things afloat. Perhaps necessary now, but what the #RET crowd don't know (or don't care

RationalInvestor

Orangeman1992

Since pandemic started, USA dumped more than $5T on the American economy. GS economist Blake Taylor thinks there’s a good chance we haven’t seen the last of these fiscal spending packages and

Eric Lonergan

ericlonners

1) Calling a shift in regime is part of the macro manager’s requisite toolkit. @andresdrobny https://twitter.com/ericlonners/status/1200569817004154880 2) There may be information in The Death of Macro investing. 3) The collapse

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BartMFlyn04

1/ So... many talk of the switch in the parties, many feel that the RNC Switched from being the party of abolition & DNC switched from being the party of

Ezra Klein

ezraklein

I love this @AnnieLowrey jeremiad against the term "low-skill jobs." Those jobs aren't low-skill. They're low-wage, and calling them low-skill is a way of blaming often exploited workers for inequality

Sherrod Brown

SenSherrodBrown

Here's a thread of everything Trump, McConnell, and Senate Republicans should be doing to help Americans get through this pandemic -INSTEAD of jamming through a Supreme Court nomination. Rent relief.Families

Zach Morris

ZacharyAMorris

Google searches for #SSDI reached their highest point ever recorded this April. #DisabilityandCOVID19 1/ Reasonable to assume that the pandemic, like the Great Recession, will lead to increased applications as

James Wilson

jamewils

Heart-rending visuals of masses of migrants walking desperately to their villages hundreds of kilometres away after the sudden lockdown were not enough to move the government to unleash a more

Sarah Bessey

sarahbessey

I'm feeling preacher-y today. Buckle up.I always say it was following Jesus that made a feminist out of me.But it was also following Jesus that made me care about climate

S Gurumurthy

sgurumurthy

Surprised at how media is reporting on Q2 GDP. “Worst crash” “Economy in ICU” Fact is nation stopped working. So no production, no income, no spend. Only if nation works

menaka doshi

menakadoshi

The Rs 97,000 crore twist in #GST Compensation Cess CaseThe constitutional amendment states that compensation shall be provided to the States "...for loss of revenue on account of implementation of