#Economist

Brian Riedl 🧀

Brian_Riedl

MEGA-THREAD: @mattyglesias competently summarizes the "Debt no longer matters, so relax & add more" case. But these arguments - common on econ Twitter - dismiss two key realities:1) Baseline debt

Holly

HollyBlomberg

The ‘New Democrat’ machine is busy with potential cabinet picks for Biden. The general theme reminds me of “Back to the Future” — all the same neoliberal players on the

Prof Juju 🌍🌹🌱💙 #FreeDishaRavi #FarmersProtest

JKSteinberger

.@ProfSteveKeen @jasonhickel , there's a mess in the delusional and terrible economics aisle. Want to come clean up?https://twitter.com/RichardTol/status/1341757027354349576 Ok, while waiting for the pain killers to kick in, I'll ha

Jacob T. Levy

jtlevy

Fractals are supposed to be interesting. But they're also repetitive, and the Trump presidency fractal is boring. Every new episode encompassed all the terrible features of the whole presidency, reproduced

CFC Central

CFCCentral1

With the International break on, thought I'd do a thread about a story from our Champion League final loss to United, which made me fall in love with analyzing the

Jerusalem

JerusalemDemsas

I spent a couple of weeks talking with policy experts, renters, landlords, and lawyers about the looming expiration date for the CDC's eviction moratorium.It's worse than you think, and it's

bean

christapeterso

I’m going to summarize what I presented on The XX Factor about the anti-Semitic and violent rhetoric of someone whose ideas now pervade the gender critical movement. If you’re concerned

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

The McTague article in the Atlantic on UK state failure read to me more like an introduction to an article on UK state failure ['maybe the UK state has failed,

Fabiana Cecin 🏴 🌹

fabianacecin

Basic Income is not about economics.Basic Income is a legal method for the abolition of servitude. It is a political construct.Money is a legal human rights document. It is not

Saurabh

sbh_kc

1/Oh god. Ok let me explain again. Yes US farmers were able to sell to private entities, however I only mentioned that because of the tweet I QTed. What I

Richard Murphy

RichardJMurphy

Tories are now saying there should be no tax rises this year. Overall, I agree. Right now we don't want overall tax increases taking demand out of a fragile economy.

John B. Holbein

JohnHolbein1

"No one could have seen this coming." "No one could have seen this coming." "No one could have seen this coming." "No one could have seen this coming." "No one

Jialan Wang

jialanw

NEW PAPER ALERTBankruptcy and the COVID-19 Crisis with Jeyul Yang + @profiverson + @ray_kluender TLDR: Household and SME bankruptcies since mid-March, reversing the historical relationship between bankruptcy and unemployment

Samantha Hauser, PhD

SamanthaSHauser

The 'overpopulation' argument in re: to environmental impacts is so harmful and supports eugenics! Why? Let's chat...CW: genocide, eugenics, racism, discrimination First, we have to talk about some history. The

The Dread Pirate Jussim

PsychRabble

Ok, hold on to your hats. Double Black Scholar/Public Intellectual Treat Thread.1/n ending in END.Coleman Hughes @coldxman has a great long essay on the deep independent thinker, Thomas Sowell. I

Scott Santens 🧢🏄‍♂️

scottsantens

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Basic Income since 2013. Here's a list of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments, unconditional cash transfer studies, and cash dividend research.The

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