#Economies

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today's @bopinion post is about why developing nations are in big trouble -- both from coronavirus, and from the decline of the United States.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-03/covid-19-and-declining-u-s-pose-double

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: December 30, 1900. Advisors from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the college run by Booker T. Washington, arrived in Togo to help German colonialists institute a

General Theorist

GeneralTheorist

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are something I have been putting off engaging with, but over the past week have come to take this seriously thanks to Ex Ante’s Grant

Patrick Corrigan

PatrickCorrigan

Who benefitted from slavery in Ireland? When it was abolished in British colonies in 1833, the equivalent of £millions of pounds was paid out in compensation to almost 100 slave

jules rylan ✡︎

radiantbutch

why modern conspiracy theories are rooted in antisemitism: an educational thread trigger warnings: antisemitism, graphic antisemitic imagery, mentions of the Holocaust, Nazism, and blood libel/the death of children.please consider

Aaron “Multibagger” Bush

aaronbush100

20 powerful (and usually underrated) competitive advantages [THREAD]: Textbook advantages like network effects, high switching costs, economies of scale, and intangible assets can clearly be powerful, but let's dig a

Vikram Rajagopalan

rajavick

I'm in Hawaii, and every time I get on a Zoom call I can't help but be in awe that I can have real-time conversations on an island to anywhere

Dr. Simon ツ

goddeketal

1/ One year of destroyed economies, social isolation & deep social splits calls for an anniversary thread to celebrate the RT-qPCR manuscript by Christian Drosten (@c_drosten) & Victor Corman

Gaurav Sharma

Gaurav1105

Next 10 years in FinTech.The Fintech tsunami is happening, and there is no way back. Long thread 1) In 2030, the largest “bank” in the world will not-be-a-bank. Think-

Dr. Jennifer Kwan

jkwan_md

Thoughts on #SchoolReopening:Getting kids back to school safely should be a priority. No doubt kids NEED school, not just for education but for social interaction, good mental health, development etc.

Francis Hoar

Francis_Hoar

I made my submission to the @HLConstitution Committee yesterday. Here are some submissions about the WHO's pandemic advice from as recently as October 2019. In short, it does not remotely

James Griffiths

_JamesGriffiths

#EnergyEfficiency retrofit must drive the #GreenRecovery. But don't take my word for it - here's a non-exhaustive thread of key advocates, in no particular order. 1/An excellent report on Rebuilding

Der Katsfoter, live and not a cat

derkatsfoter

The cheap $3.99 big mac incorporates the value of the laboring worker anyway. The big mac price doesn't increase because the only difference is who gets the money. The price

Heather E Heying

HeatherEHeying

You all ready? Here we go. Science doesn’t work by fiat, or by forced, fabricated consensus. That consensus that you see before you? It’s a mirage. It’s a farce. Science

HUNTSMAN 🇺🇸

man_integrated

In the past few days, I've highlighted how China's #BeltandRoad Initiative (BRI) has been a trojan horse since 2013 for securing critical geopolitical footprints and resources throughout Eurasia, Africa, and

Prof Juju 🌍🌹🌱💙 #FreeDishaRavi #FarmersProtest

JKSteinberger

"The devil, who would lead us into the blindness of the heart and to the deafness of the mind, should be crucified..." A thread on the importance of being willing

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