#Economic

Mark Paul

MarkVinPaul

There's no question that Congress needs to pass a major stimulus bill. But how big should it be? Well, @adamshersh & I answer that in a new @Groundwork paper. We

Rafay

alt_ali9

While Martin Luther King Jr wasn't a Marxist, he was infact very critical of capitalism. In a speech to the SCLC, he said:“The evils of capitalism are as real as

Faye ⚧🟥⬛ — Anti-Fascism, even with Dems in power

FayeEcklar

Reninder for folks, your class position isn't determined by your income or wealth. It's determined by your relationship to the means of production. Or in non-jargon, class is determined by

gut, PHD in welfare fraud, 66 IQ

lit65539723

Finding myself profoundly bored of economics.More to the point finding myself profoundly bored of le Socialism vs. le Capitalism """debates""" between two groups of midwits unable to grapple with the

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

Rent is due today and 1 in 5 adults say they are unable to make their rent or mortgage payment this month.Millions are unemployed and more than 50% of households

David Dayen

ddayen

Unbelievable that Democrats would let this hold up a deal. The Fed facilities have almost exclusively fattened the wallets of the investor class, and the central bank has tools to

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s13GES

Interesting exchanges underneath this Tweet. For what it's worth, the current success of AfD in East Germany and arguably right wing populism in USA and UK is a result of

Zachary Bleemer

zbleemer

New (job market) paper: Quasi-experimental and structural analysis of novel administrative data shows that broadening public university access for lower-testing students can promote economic mobility without efficiency losses. A thread.

Maggie Day

MaggieDay55

1980 the fed deficit was soaringReagan campaigned on a singular promise: He’d to cut taxes, ESP the richHe insisted benefits would quickly trickle down to everyone & supercharge the economyAdd

Dakota Camacho

infinitedakota

A Thread about Pacific Islander Erasure: I'm really irritated with how Asian American's claim "Asian Pacific" Islander/American while at the same excluding and erasing Pacific Islanders from their cultural/political work.

Reed Hundt

rehundt

To summarize my recap of 2008-9 reasons for the stimulus size presented by Summers, etc to Obama-Biden: an astonishing number of reasons were aggregated. All were wrong. Some known to

Ububele

_ubsta

Bits-to-atoms vs atoms-to-bits. There has been a boom in bits-to-atoms businesses ever since people could buy things on the internet. The rise of Fullstack startups lead to an increase in

Kelly Brown

rubiconcapital_

1/ November 2019, Arjumand Siddiqi, Division Head of Epidemiology at UofT School of Public Health published a research article examining the troubling rise in mortality rates in whites in the

Fortress Evropa ⚔️ 🇵🇱

FortressEvropa

For decades, an entire generation of Europeans has been told that over-population is killing the planet and we should have less - or no - children.Yet we never see any

William Hogeland

WilliamHogeland

Parenti makes the same error Chernow does in reading this quote out of context: "If Shays had not been a desperate debtor it is much to be doubted whether Massachusetts would have

David Fishman

pretentiouswhat

China Power Sector For Dummies- Part 1: Grids and Dispatch - Getting Smarter1/10First, Chinese doesn't have a national grid, at least not in the way that small countries do. There

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