#Fiscal

Last night, I was at a Christmas party, and this nice gentleman struck up a conversation with me. Asked what I do. I told him. He said he works in
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Some questions/comments that sprang to mind while reading Lebanon’s leaked govt reform plan today. In no particular order, but points which I think we need more debate and clarity on:
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Softbank's investments - Uber, Doordash, Wework, etc - are cons. They launder Saudi oil billions with "businesses" that lose titanic amount of money for many years, while also preying on
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The appalling new whistleblower complaint reporting the use of forced and coerced hysterectomies at Irwin County Detention Center is just the latest chapter in the chronicle of horrors that detained
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A Man Disrupt Banking System with his Gut.Those men that had great discoveries were known as the crazy ones. Such is the story of this middle age man from a
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In 2008 I read this article https://www.wired.com/2008/10/bottle-shock-4/ by, I believe, @dannydoom and @adriennemso . This was in the BPA-will-kill-you era and Siggs were THE water bottle to have - esp
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George Orwell said:“Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in as in their rectified version.”and"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls
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Thread/My personal experience with a Republican who voted for Obama, then voted for Trump.This person, let's call him Fred (not his real name), was right leaning throughout his life. He
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Starting to hear murmurs of lockdowns in #Colombo. Thing is, most of us live in an echo chamber, and reality is often far more complex than we imagine. I took
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Servidor público ganha muito no Brasil? A resposta honesta é: depende. Não há uma categoria de servidor público. As diversidades e desigualdades são gigantescas. Acompanhe o fio. + Dados do
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So I was talking with my mom about #DefundThePolice. And she asked me a question: how could what happened to Rayshard Brooks happen, at this moment, in this uprising? How
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We’re incentivizing doctors $13k per death certificate that says cause of death is coronavirus?If you request a ventilator as a hospital or doctor you get $39k per ventilator?What? Someone said
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People are dunking on this tweet, but there's the germ of a good argument here and it's worth pulling out. The problem is that Kentucky is trying to have things
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I'm starting an on going thread about the upside down world of Wisconsin political rhetoric & how in fact Milwaukee is the most conservative city in the state. 1/n We'll
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"Debt crises occur because debt & debt service costs rise faster than incomes that are needed to service them, causing a deleveraging.While the CB can alleviate debt crises by lowering
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Lots of thoughts about this. Here's two: 1) This really puts the minimum wage fiasco of a couple months ago in sharp perspective; 2) Bernie & others should rally in
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