#Economist

Mary Vought

MaryVought

Schools Should Reopen(Thread — 1/12) Psychiatrist Mark McDonald who specializes in children, at risk youth rebukes “negligent” parents “paralyzed” by their own irrational fear: “Children are not dying from Covid-19.

Jaime J. Izurieta

izurietavarea

Richard Cantillon was an economist from the 1790s who saw today’s economic dilemma. He found that as the money stock increased, the value of each unit of that money would

All Cops Are Bastards

norahborealis_

Predictions of the effects of automation vary widely.Some say 10% of jobs in the US could be effected, some go nearly to 50%.50% unemployment would be disastrous under our current

Natasha Doff

natashadoff

1/5 Russia has money to stimulate the economy, but Putin wants to keep it in reserve in case it faces new sanctions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-06/covid-pandemic-putin-reluctant-with-stimulus-despite-russia-s-reserves?sr

Will Chamberlain

willchamberlain

What if @benshapiro isn't alt-right - but instead is just a lazy, flippant public intellectual?@TheEconomist apparently didn't read his book. I did. Let's take a look at his discussion of

Mustapha Hamoui

Beirutspring

Article dump thread. I will post here articles I read about the Beirut explosion, its significance, causes, and repercussions, with quick summaries. I will keep adding more articles to the

Eben Novy-Williams

novy_williams

Colleges across the country are cutting sports to save money. Maybe they should be *adding* sports to save money. A story I hope that ADs, provosts and team presidents read

Eliezer Yudkowsky

ESYudkowsky

Real journalism serves an important function in society. I've just subscribed to @TheEconomist to do my part and underscore this point: my call to bury the rotting corpse of the

isabella steger

stegersaurus

How much does sth have to “resemble the Holocaust” for ppl to take it seriously as a genocide? asked @SamanthaJPower. i looked into this question wrt to Uyghurs, amid a

Wings Of Liberty

ChampionPrezzi

You know, I don't believe in or think people should practice tribal politics. I believe that politics should be about policy and performance. And a large chunk of performance is

olive | 𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭

anti_antiblk

Just thinking about the why's and dynamics of the U.S. in Mozambique. Bc the U.S. govt. and it's coordinating capitalist powers are not charitable, and frankly don't actually give a

Matt McFarlane MD, PhD

drmattmcfarlane

I just read the abstract of @GottliebEcon’s paper that generated so much twitter controversy, and I’m confused. Two takeaways IMO: 1) physician incomes respond a lot to govt reimbursements, but

ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs

MorlockP

1/hmmmIt's good to have terms for things - a term gives you a handle, and makes a concept easily reusable."Seeing like a state" is one good concept.But there's a parallel

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

Here are my TWO simple rules for deciding who's an expert (both during a pandemic and in general)! I don't think we should automatically believe people who say they're

Abhishek

AbhishBanerj

A look at India govt bond yields for last 25 years show that global investors trusted Atalji and Modi a lot more than Dr. Singh.Bond yield is interest rate that

Demagogue_Bingo 🔶🌍🇪🇺🥛⚖️⚔️🦉🐝💀🎯☸️

BingoDemagogue

"We're now at the stage of dismissing a leading UK university." #Scexit "They are doing a great job in illustrating why non-democratic nationalistic regimes have universities as their first target"

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