#Economist

In the EU, no one can hear you screamhttps://www.economist.com/europe/2021/02/03/how-europe-dodges-responsibility-for-its-vaccine-fiasco Remember when the vaccine roll out was “a touching moment of unity and a European success story”? T
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So I learnt today that there is something called The Big Mac index.The Big Mac index, published by The Economist in 1986, is a novel way of measuring whether the
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https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/07/25/why-the-eu-is-becoming-more-like-a-chekhov-play EU treaty like a badly-written play. Lots of guns sitting unused. Chekhov would not approve. Except now, some of them being fired. Pew! https://www.
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The coming "brain gain" for eastern Europehttps://www.economist.com/europe/2021/01/30/how-the-pandemic-reversed-old-migration-patterns-in-europe Those numbers are big even if only a fraction stay permanently. In UK or French term
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The Economist on gender ID in the USA & the impact on women's prisons. Thread:https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/01/30/putting-trans-women-in-female-prisons-sets-up-a-clash-of-rights Summary of article: This month Californ
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weird, ill-informed Economist article. 'genocide' as an attempt to destroy a people *as a people* is well-established, forcible sterilization is well-attested and widespread as is cultural annihilationhttps://www.economist.com/leade
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This map shows you which parts of the country swung to the left or to the right v 2016. Georgia and sub/urban Texas really stand out to me:https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/11/03/the-us-2020-election-results Ohio and
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“Ironically, though managers may have feared that remote working would allow employees to slack, it may be that managers have not been up to the challenge”, no shit. This isn’t
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If MMTers were just doing standard Keynesian macro, then we would not have arrived at completely different conclusions (from mainstream Keynesians) re: the Bush tax cuts, the Clinton surpluses, the
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A look at China's "dual circulation" strategy. One way to interpret it: open economy to the outside world where that brings benefit; turn inward where that guards against vulnerability.Might sound
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I am going to use Twitter as a diary of sorts to explain what happened with our presidential election forecast (and why) on most days between now and November 3rd.
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My special report on Chinese youth is out in @TheEconomist. I spoke to people of the post-Tiananmen generation in nightclubs, on farms. I found them to be patriotic—but also engaged,
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On the coming rise in unemployment.https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/08/22/mass-unemployment-threatens-britain There’s a sense in policy making circles that the reforms of the 1980s and 1990s have left Britain with a very flexible la
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/ good thread - do read it and replies!agree we often underestimate the role of serendipity. hard work is necessary (usually) but it is not sufficient.https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1348664433216802817 interesting case where I
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Big Mac in the US: $5.66Big Mac in Denmark: $4.90Arguments against raising wages aren't based on economics but a deep disdain for the working class.Source: Big Mac Index January 2021
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Interesting chart ... Europe lagging because less Amazon? (https://www.economist.com/business/2021/01/02/the-next-big-thing-in-retail-comes-with-chinese-characteristics) The US ecommerce market is estimated to have reached $800B in 2020 (33
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