#Monetary

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

The analogy of a country’s budget being like a household's budget is often used as an argument for austerity measures (suspiciously, only used against social programs, not programs that benefit

Steven Hail

StevenHailAus

If you are a journalist and you don't want to find out more about Modern Monetary Theory now, then where is your intellectual curiosity and why are you a journalist

Chris Becker

chrislbecker

Most comprehensive statistical study of hyperinflations by Peter Bernholz concluded that once a govt borrows more than 40% what it spends annually, it is statistically significant predictor of hyperinflation. SA

Chamath Palihapitiya

chamath

This pandemic will hopefully mark the end of the perversion of higher education. Since the 1980s, kids and parents have been forced to play a series of stupid finite games

Conner Brrrrrown

_ConnerBrown_

I’m always confused when goldbugs agree on almost every part of Bitcoin’s design and purpose, but at the very end they say “but I just can’t touch it” and the

Erik Torenberg

eriktorenberg

Econ Twitter:Tell me where the below is wrong or add nuance to some of the claims:- Misconceptions around monetary policy- Similarities btw 1929, 1990s (Japan), & 2008 & lessons learned-

Kenny

kenny_manager

NIGERIA NEEDS A RETHINK ON ITS INTERNATIONAL FINANCEThis thread attempts to explain how Nigeria got its international finance right in the period 1960-1985 but wrong from 1985 till date. Needless

Pomp 🌪

APompliano

Many of the talking heads were screaming about Bitcoin being a horrible safe haven during the recent economic crisis.They have been proven wrong. Time for a thread 1) The

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paintedbees

Here he is! This kobold child is lookin for a home!Starting bid: $60 USDMinimum bid increments: $5Winner will receive the 300dpi working sized file and is welcome to do what

Stephen Gordon

stephenfgordon

The fun thing about MMT 'research' is that there is no there there. There is no stripped-down model to illustrate the basic point of whatever they're trying to say. If

Vitor Constâncio

VMRConstancio

Powell speaking at the Jackson Hole just revealed the FED´s new monetary framework. As expected, it is based on averaging inflation targeting (see my tweet https://twitter.com/VMRConstancio/status/1296439646684164096?s=20 ) without indicat

Bruce Lawson

Sapere_vivere

1. I see @afneil is asking supporters of an iScotland what currency they’d use and is yet to get an economically sensible reply so let’s look at the options. 2.

Vitor Constâncio

VMRConstancio

Amid the Trump shenanigans of last week, the relevant speech by the FED Chairman J. Powell was perhaps not much noticed. He clarified some aspects of the new monetary framework

Henrik Zeberg

HenrikZeberg

Trust you are safe! For a long time, I have been forecasting #DEFLATION. We got that! Today, I want to address, why I think we are about to see a

David Davis

DavidDavisMP

Transparency matters enormously in handling the Covid19 crisis, both for public confidence and for quality of public decision making. We should publish the membership of SAGE: remove any non-scientist members:

John Ferry

JohnFerry18

Final thing on this thread, given it got lots of attention - there's obviously more important things to be thinking about right now! A key point though is that the