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Dr. Betsy Wolf

betsyjwolf

@StanfordCEPA released a new dataset today to include additional years of student achievement data, spanning from 2007-08 through 2017-18, and the results for DC don’t track with all the talking

Gabriel Zucman

gabriel_zucman

There's a funny collective amnesia in the US about what happened before 1980The tax system used to be highly progressive (ahem, 91% top marginal income tax rate)—but hey, never happenedThe

A.J. Somerset

ajsomerset

Today in Your Fact is Not In Fact a Fact:This chart is making the rounds, purporting to demonstrate that there is no relationship between gun ownership in Canada and rates

Dave

djr8519

Reuters reported o/n that the BoJ is set to loosen its grip on YCC to allow long term yields to rise. JGB futures gapped lower on this.If true, then the

Maya Saint Germain

mlsaintgermain

africa - despite having a population 3x our size - has had only a fraction as many covid deaths that we have seen in the usa this year (53k vs

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alexharfouche1

Markets are still on razor’s edge here. But it is encouraging that volatility have migrated mostly towards FX. The likely scenario here is for the $ to absorb most of

Tyler Black, MD

tylerblack32

1/ GLOBAL Suicidology 2020World-first data!Every nation so far that has reported its suicide rates for 2020, compared to previous years. No change since 2019 (but down from 2017).Despite a global

Nate Fischer

NateAFischer

Pastors: Christian influencers have been downplaying common arguments for voting Republican, expressing pastoral concern for sincere Christians who disagree.We polled Christians to better understand their theological and political views. @l

Lyn Alden

LynAldenContact

When interest rates hit zero for the first time in decades, interesting things happen. Here's the 100-year chart of total debt to GDP in blue on the left axis, vs

Victoria Guida

vtg2

If Judy Shelton is confirmed to the Federal Reserve next week, she’ll be one of only 6 (probably soon 7) board members. But she’ll have a vote on policy. What

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Scientific models vary according to the assumptions made. Compare here the projections for Covid19 deaths under four different epidemiological models (Imperial, LSHTM, Warwick, and Public Health England/Cambridge) and the dynamic

Alex Saunders 🇦🇺👨‍🔬

AlexSaundersAU

1/ Two years ago we released a documentary about structural problems in the Australian economy. At the time, the RBA was talking about raising interest rates. We predicted they'd go

Ayaz Hyder, PhD

ayazhyder

My thoughts on the new quarantine guidelines for schools from @OHdeptofhealth. In one sentence: A colossal failure in translating science to policy. More thoughts in thread below based on the

Tyler Black, MD

tylerblack32

A quick thread on being a suicidologist, and the absolutely humble knowledge that we can't predict anything yet with all the expertise, computing power, and variables in the world:"Follow the

Blackpool Council

BpoolCouncil

The Leader of Blackpool Council has condemned the BBC for its “wholly misleading” coverage of COVID-related death rates in Blackpool. The corporation broadcast reports on its main news channels suggesting that

Saket Mehrotra 😎

mehrotra_saket

A big part of the PE expansion that you're seeing today has got nothing to do with accelerated earnings expectation but with the fact that the WACC is going to

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