#Economy

A question I pose to my grad students: should we trust data, especially historic data?Take historic international trade data. Should we trust it? [THREAD] What do I mean by "historic"?
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https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/return-to-the-rubiconReturn to the Rubicon:The exclusion of blacks from the Tricameral Parliament turned out to be a major obstacle to any progress the government had hoped to make in attracting black
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A Thread On The Most Evil Rulers/Humans To Have Ever Lived .I'm pretty sure most of you would be expecting Adolf Hitler to be on this list, oh well, he
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Thread: Who is a tech worker and what does tech organizing look like? Like most sectors, organizing is informed by legal and political considerations, industrial relations, hierarchies of skills, gender,
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Inequality requires narrative stabilizers. When you have too little and someone else has more than they can possibly use, simple logic dictates that you should take what they have. 1/
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Corn is a platform with both limitless purposes, and one purpose:to turn rural land into a dependable & infinitely fungible financial asset.https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1074864735143804928 If you want to understand US agric
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 94Today, weekly round-up, w/ focus on new surge states & implications of steroid trial.First, @UCSFHospitals: way down, 7 pts, 2 on vents (Fig on L).
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"I'M NOT SURE I'M A DEMOCRAT ANYMORE:" DEMOCRAT POLICIES HAVE GONE "OFF THE CLIFF OF INSANITY"Many constituents are being"...abandoned by an ever-increasing urban-based elite within the party, who hate anyon
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Collecting key COVID-19 emerging facts to highlight key questions the Australian government has never provided satisfactory responses to in their mindless pursuit of policies that are killing our country ...
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- THREAD -I'm live tweeting today's big House Antitrust Subcommittee hearing featuring the CEOs of Apple, Google. Facebook, and Amazon.That is, if the committee can fix its technical issues and
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And we're off. New Brunswick here we come. Off the 1000 Island Parkway We drove towards the end of the rainbow but didn't find any treasure. We are done for
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1/ #Corona, Recession, Depression, biggest #Crash of all time...While everybody is occupied with speculating about the consequences of the Virus, I believe there is something much bigger going on here:The
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Today, Irish Green Party are to discuss the topic "CETA, ISDS & the Greening of Trade Agreements". It's an important topic because lets be clear - there is a need
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THREADLet's start a new, better year with a new, better COVID strategy. @csc_canada_ 1/https://covidstrategicchoices.ca  Canada presently has 2 COVID strategies: 1 is working; 1 is failing. The 4 Atlantic Provinces
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Some facts on COVID in the GTA and our response: In the GTA hospitals run on average with 95% capacity with many running at over 100% capacity (what we call
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*MEANWHILE, IN AUSTRIA..* International press are currently poring over the Wirecard scandal, the primary suspects in which are its CEO, Markus Braun, and COO, Jan Marsalek, both of whom are
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