#Economy

Chris Giles

ChrisGiles_

Harrods and fishing - a threadFor the benefit of @christopherhope who was correct on the telly todayand Paul Stains - @GuidoFawkes - who wasn'ttl:dr Harrods is worth more to the

Denys Bennett

denysbennett

Some reflections on #ZeroCovid and the parallels in ‘Quality Management’ which saw the transformation of Japan during 1980s from supplier of cheap & nasty imitations to leading industrial powerhouse.Until then,

michael

mrbrnn

excited to share the new report by @Cmmonwealth and @DemocracyCollab I’ve been working on w/ @ThomasMHanna @DantonsHead @peters_nils. some thoughts on the urgency of this intervention in the big tech

David C Lowery

davidclowery

The most fucking tone deaf article ever. The author starts out by praising the CEO of TikTok/Bytedance. Someone should have told the author TikTok is/was built completely on unlicensed music.

Alexander Barkawi

abarkawi

.@federalreserve Chair Powell to @vtg2: "The public will expect, and has every right to expect, that in our oversight of the #financialsystem we will account for all material risks, and

Tinashe M

baba_nyenyedzi

1/Zimbabwe Economy remittances paradoxThe paradox can be stated as thus; The single most influential variable in the Zim economy is diaspora remittances, yet it’s the least researched, misunderstood & almost

Basant Maheshwari

BMTheEquityDesk

Only way to beat China is by being economically stronger. How does a $2.7 trillion economy take on a $14 trillion global bully? Get growth back, use it to upgrade

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

The analogy of a country’s budget being like a household's budget is often used as an argument for austerity measures (suspiciously, only used against social programs, not programs that benefit

James Meadway

meadwaj

@joecguinan response to Starmer's speech is partly defence of "Corbynomics" as embodying an institutional critique of neoliberalism I mostly agree with, but three further points to make:https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/02/the-unb

David Dayen

ddayen

The "it's just an index fund" people obscure BlackRock's habit of placing officials in top government positions around the world, to conjure up business for the company from scratchBut Matt

Brian Riedl 🧀

Brian_Riedl

I have a study in editing showing that the common "Democratic presidents manage the economy better than Republicans" argument is nonsense. The #1 predictor of GDP/jobs in a presidential term

Louise Perry

Louise_m_perry

The key, unspoken problem is that in primarily knowledge-based economies like ours, childcare is incompatible with most forms of paid work. Children aren't economically useful for a long time, and

Jeff Deist

jeffdeist

The MMT argument made here: Treasuries aren't debt, they are "amplifying dollars" which pay interest. When mature they revert back to original currency form. So never a debt, just a

John S. Olson

pilotolson

A thread on some back-of-the-envelope reflections on the "worst-case scenario" of overheating the economy and inflation: Starting assumptions are1. The CBO has the output gap right2. A very generous (linear)

Paul Rosenberg

PaulHRosenberg

Caretakers of young psychopaths experience pervasive depression. It's a micro-model of what's happening in the US under Trump, also seen elsewhere around the world. But it can be overcome: 1/13https://www.salon.com/2019/09/15/the-tr

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

How do you force people to move from cash to electronic currency? Lock them up. What is the end goal? Government backed cryptocurrency. Who is already doing it? China. Who

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