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Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

US alliance partners are thrilled about @JoeBiden! But should they? How do we know that USA alliance commitments really matter?Answer: we can't[THREAD]https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2020-11-07/us-allies-express-relief-af

Alex Norris

imaybeskeptical

I saw this in the bill of complaint filed by the state of Texas (?!) challenging results of elections in PA, GA, WI, and MI. I knew I had to

Giordano Durante

GGDurante

A little thread (a polite term for an extended rant) about reading, or accessing reading material, in Gibraltar. Since the pandemic started affecting flights and certain suppliers, the two quality

Matthew Toohey

TooheyMatthew

After a few days off courtesy of my dodgy brain, #GenderBalancingClothingCommentary is back tonight. @andrewprobyn usually pairs his lovely shirts and ties with elan. Alas, not tonight: the lighter colour

JW Mason

JWMason1

Rudi Dornbusch summarizes the consensus position on monetary policy; it’s all about “getting rid of democratic money.”I think this was fair statement of the general view economists when he wrote

Brennan Schlagbaum, CPA

Budgetdog_

For the twenty years ending 12/31/2015...The S&P 500 Index averaged 9.85% a year.The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 5.19%. Why is that? A thread.

George Mack

george__mack

We live in the AGE OF INFORMATION. It's never been easier to PASSIVELY ACCEPT the opinions of other people.Let's use HISTORY as a reminder as to how this can go

Liberty Times & Politics 📑 #FreeSpeech

dmills3710

“Molly was helping me work on my project the VoG tech. I was helping her with hers. Molly had discovered that satellites were being used to manipulate election results on

Ana Lorena Fabrega

anafabrega11

Why should kids question the defaults?While researching his book, @AdamMGrant came across some surprising research that shows correlation between someone’s performance at their job and the web browser they use.Yes,

Edward Russell

e_russell

For those seemingly surprised about the tanking U.S. air travel recovery, let’s review the situation (thread).From the outset, @IATA director general Alexandre de Juniac was calling it the “biggest crisis

(Kat)harsis

AnyAFKat

Instead of studying, I want to tell you about a bada*s woman named Hatshepsut. She was the 2nd woman to become pharaoh in her own right in the Old Kingdom...that

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

A question observers of the UK Conservative Vote Leave lot, and the GOP ask themselves all the time is - do they understand all this stuff at some level, and

Tom Forth

thomasforth

Since 2010 UK state spending has shrunk by 6% of GDP. In the same period the French state has shrunk by just 1% of GDP. This comparison is quite a

Malcolm Clark

TwisterFilm

1./ Yesterday @jk_rowling expressed concern -again- over the rush to medicalise gay teens. Her concern is consistently misrepresented as "transphobic". If you're confused here's my beginner's guide to the 'gender

Chris Blattman

cblatts

it’s great that economists do lots of field work and interviews now. But think of the absolute sloppiest, terrible causal inference paper you can remember, from someone who doesn’t even

alberto bisin

albertobisin

Interesting discussion these days about various versions of this figure (this one is taken from the NYTimes). 1/n The typical reaction has been to point out that U.S. policies have

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