#Fiscal

Kimberly Bolch

kbbolch

Thank you to everyone working so hard to keep us informed on #COVID19! I have seen several great initiatives emerging to track ongoing #policy responses to the pandemic. Here is

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

Silvia Merler

SMerler

The #Eurogroup has a deal! What does it mean? 1/https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2020/04/09/report-on-the-comprehensive-economic-policy-response-to-the-covid-19-pandemic/ Compared to eg 2010, we are discussing much more openly

Gannon Breslin

rebelmarkets

Is Square a good investment right now?This thread is going to be a deep dive into Square $SQ to look through why I see it as a good long term

Paasha Mahdavi

paashamahdavi

Some good news amidst the storm: Thrilled to announce that my new book Power Grab is out from @CUP_PoliSci! It’s about how leaders survive in power by nationalizing oil, metals,

Armine Yalnizyan

ArmineYalnizyan

Morneau noted that the feds are the BEST borrowers in the land (lower risks/costs than for cash strapped provinces, municipalities, businesses, households, and poor people, ranked in ascending order of

Lucid

Lucid_TA

Macro Mega-Thread!Here’s the state of play as I see it.COVID-19 fallout will exert very strong deflationary pressures on both asset prices and the economy.We will see extreme and escalating interventions

RaGLaN ➡ Bot ruso

RaGLaN_83

El indicador que desprecian los neoliberales porque: contradice su dogma Va más allá de las cifras absolutashttp://diario16.com/pobreza-en-espana-15-datos-para-la-verguenza/ ¿Cómo era eso que decían los neoliberales de que la desigual

Stephanie Ruhle

SRuhle

THREAD: It's time for another fact check. We're going to dig a little deeper into President Trump's messaging yesterday, where he essentially started tweeting: "Your 401k will be gone without

Kirtan A Shah

KirtanShahCFP

My new on ‘How India is fighting against inflation’. This thread will answer most of your questions around macro-economics.Please ‘re-tweet’ / share it in your Whatsapp groups & help

General Theorist

GeneralTheorist

I can’t claim to be an expert on the Fed. But what the heck, everybody's clever nowadays. Here are some random thoughts by an outsider on the Powell speech. And

Ricardo Reis

R2Rsquared

*** What is automatic about the automatic stabilizers?The discussion on the US extending the extra $600 in unemployment benefits has been couched in terms of automatic stabilizers. But if Congress

Gautam Bhan

GautamBhan80

Fourteen states have said the vaccine will be free. More will follow. They should - it makes ethical, economic and political sense. But just realise when we all casually say

Lorian Hardcastle

Lorian_H

Contact your MLAs and people you know who are UCP members and encourage them to vote against this nonsense at the annual general meeting. The following (flawed) rationale is offered

Yeganeh Torbati

yjtorbati

.@USATODAY rates as TRUE the claim that Obama admin depleted the federal stockpile of medical supplies, and says “for whatever reason” recommendations to replenish the stockpile were not needed. But

MMT Podcast (Christian Reilly)

MMTpodcast

This from @Ben_Wray1989 needs to be a thread, so here it is:“Narratively, the Tories have dominated the politics of public finance ever since the 2008 crash, consistently forcing Labour to