#Policymakers

Consequence is no coincidence

BlueSteelDC

I am Fight Club pissed at this level of stupid. This will be a thread. What the Republicans are talking about is anti- Free market. They are basically promoting flip

Nsikan Akpan

MoNscience

Yesterday, we broke the news that Moderna has begun phase two of its human trials for a coronavirus vaccine.But two other topics have swirled around the company in recent days:Let's

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

Hannah Halbert

HannahHalbert

Multi-state settlement relieves debt for ITT Tech students.https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200915/multi-state-settlement-relieves-debt-for-itt-tech-students In 2016, the same year ITT closed its campuses, OH spent more than $1.1 million fro

Patrick Galey #BlackLivesMatter

patrickgaley

To be perfectly clear: #Covid19 will happen again. And again. And so on, until humans stop treating Earth as its personal rummage sale (THREAD)https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/asia/china-swine-flu-pandemic-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html?ref=hvp

Stability Journal

StabilityJrnl

In the past four months, we have published 11 peer-reviewed, open-access research articles on policy relevant peace, security, and development issues. All articles are available for free here: https://www.stabilityjournal.org/articles/

Alec Stapp

AlecStapp

1/ @calebwatney and I wrote 4,000 words for @mercatus detailing how we can use government purchase guarantees and targeted deregulation to massively increase production of essential medical supplies.Short thread with

Steve Thomas CBE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

stevethomas100

THREAD- Its early days but very soon, the scale of the “shock geometry” of Coronavirus on the economy and public finances will need deep analysis. What do we know to

Viraj Patel

VPatelFX

Instead of the usual Bank of England meeting preview note ahead of Thursday's decision - we assembled 9 UK-based 'BoE Watchers' to form the FinTwit Shadow MPC. Thread is a

Dr. J Robson

JenniferRobson8

I have not yet had coffee but here's a longish thread on postal banking in Canada, thrift, and account-based policy. #cdnecon #cdnpoli https://twitter.com/chambart/status/1265252673974132736 As the article notes, we had postal

Nazita

NazitaLajevardi

My book “Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia” is now available!Please take a min to read this thread abt it & why we should pay attention to anti-Muslim

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

I did a talk in the excellent @MarkusEconomist Academy series yesterday on “Do Debt and Deficits Matter Anymore.” You can watch the video, see the slides, or read this longish

Shannon Keating

skeatings

Because anti-trans bigots claim that trans people must be kept out of women's spaces for "safety" reasons, I'd like to share some insights from a story I wrote a few

Peggy Bailey

PeggyBaileyDC

Thread: Today, a new HUD rule that unravels federal #housing anti-discrimination efforts goes into effect. Here’s why that’s damaging to millions It largely reverses a 2015 regulation that advanced

Amanda Fischer

amandalfischer

A thread on the Fed's role in inequality & racial equity. I think this tweet (from a great reporter!) is indicative of a narrow conception of the Fed that misses

Animan Thakur

thakurkehaath

The COVID-19 lockdown has given our political class a remarkable opportunity to push wide-ranging reforms to boost productivity and growth.One such area for reform has been in agriculture. The APMC