#Economist

Ben Riley-Smith

benrileysmith

Skimmed Obama’s new memoir for British references yesterday. There are some standout ones. Says Cameron had “the easy confidence of someone who’d never been pressed too hard by life”. 1/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/17/ba

Dina Medland 💙

dinamedland

Get ready for heating up of debate on #auditreform ahead of U.K. govt’s White Paper. Carsten Jung, Senior Economist @IPPR :”Audit firms should play a critical safeguarding role in our

Justin Carstens

jncar76

.@gelliottmorris and @NateSilver538 have posted conditional probability tables of their models vs. the national popular vote margin. Very useful! But, these tables do not account for national polling average uncertainty.Accounting

Paddington Research

PaddingtonShort

There has been recent chatter about the ‘worth’ of music (not something that can really be valued, save by people who know the price of everything and the value of

Laurie Macfarlane

L__Macfarlane

It’s great that the OECD’s chief economist has recognised that supporting austerity was a mistake. But let’s not forget the role the media played in legitimising austerity and the damage

Ananth Narayan

ananthng

1/n Long thread: Analysts at times use macro terms like consumption, savings and investments in an everyday sense. But these terms imply very different things when seen through a macro

Aayudhjivi

vh21111111996

Your entire rant can be stopped by the views of 2 prominent Buddhist revivalist, authors and reformers of 20th century1). Anagārika Dharmapāla2). Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Both R critical of

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notreallykraut

Sure. U.S foreign policy prevented the Soviet Union from creating other communist regimes in Africa and Latin America. But! When you focus on the Soviet economy itself, you quickly realize

Guy in the red tie

guyinaredtie1

For years I've been convinced we are heading for a global debt deflation event caused by the steady decline of real wages, rocketing inequality, & excessive debt, and that the

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/7Good article by @Lingling_Wei on how state control of the Chinese economy has increased in recent years in spite of assurances that Beijing wants to maintain the role of the

SydneyPadua

sydneypadua

Country A sets up a standard or regulation that will make some product more expensive (labour, safety, health, or environmental, but sometimes protectionist). Country B does not have this regulation

(((E. Glen Weyl)))

glenweyl

Despite the excellent explication by @planetmoney (https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/932048876/hacking-the-perfect-auction) I remain profoundly disturbed by the lack of follow-up on the issues around the spectrum incentive auctions: 1. Milgrom

Dr. Tammy Schirle 🍺

tammyschirle

In early August we (the parents) hope to hear Ontario’s school boards’ plans for the upcoming school year. I (the labour economist) wanted to get a picture of how much

Baker Street Herald #W3CU

bakerstherald

The new stories circulating about Brexit starting in 2010 are incorrectThe main impetus came in 2005: https://bakerstreetherald.com/2020/09/a-curious-sequence-of-events/ Arguably the seeds were sown in 2003 by Putin's Chief Economist Dr

complex attribution ruler

bee_are_

What's happening right now is the literal opposite of an efficient market even before you talk about the millions and millions of dollars lost by every business in the goddamn

PonderJaunt

PonderJaunt

Gather around Trees! I shall weave you a web of roots.Some have seen this all before. Many have not. My DMs are open; reach out and counter these points publicly

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