#Spending

Ashton Pittman

ashtonpittman

NEW: U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker voted for more than $3.6 trillion in stimulus spending under Trump last year.But he says he'll vote 'No' on Biden's stimulus because it “would add

Pat Stedman

Pat_Stedman

As a general heuristic:- if your woman is too busy and not spending time with you, your issue is mainly desire- if your woman complains you're not around more, your

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/7I don't have all the data yet, but I think I am a bit more skeptical about the "big spending" story than many others are. Total consumption at major retailers

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

GDP for Q4 is coming out tomorrow. It won't tell us much about how the economy is doing very recently but will be a great moment to look back at

Somesh Jha

someshjha7

Another day, another hidden NSO (earlier known as NSSO) survey, another scoop.Consumer spending fell for the first time in more than four decades in 2017-18.Consumer spending had last declined during

Brian The Great

BrianTh37895972

Here's what all the people trolling for outrage clicks all day today didn't tell you: The CCP Virus relieve bill was tacked on to the **annual federal spending package**.That includes

Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz

RocketToLulu

I appreciate this point (& @JuniperLSimonis as an amazing human) but I think picking on big price tags that are actually small fry in government spending is a mistake. The

Scott Lemieux

LemieuxLGM

The tl;dr of The American Warfare State is that Ike's analysis was basically right on the money. The unprecedented WW II military buildup created a lot of communities dependent on

John N.Friedman

John_N_Friedman

Fantastic job as always by @emilymbadger and @aliciap at @nytimes @NYTupshot writing about my new paper with Raj Chetty, @nhendren82 , and @michaelstepner about the COVID-19 crisis (1/N)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/upshot/coronavirus-

The Wealth Triad

TheWealthTriad

7 ways you are murdering money without realizing it and how you can Stop it.Thread// For every minute that passes, millions of dollars are on the move.From one account to

Torsten Bell

TorstenBell

Public sector finance stats this morning actually tell you quite a lot about the big picture of this crisis once you dig under the “loads of borrowing” headline. A thread...

George Selgin

GeorgeSelgin

I think MMTs have to make up their mind on this. Either money-financed fiscal expansion increases total spending or it doesn't. Either there's a real resource constraint that eventually becomes

Judd Legum

JuddLegum

1. Extraordinary story in the @WSJ about how Congressional offices are reacting to corporate PACs cutting off donations. Didn't think people would say this stuff out loud.https://www.wsj.com/articles/pause-in-corporate-pac-spending-trig

Thsnks.

afroSHIRL

Rich ppl FAIL to generate enough economic activity. They make the most and spend the least.Instead of condemning the average Joe for standing in line for pair of J's (THANK

Kirk Ross

ludkmr

NC has more than $5 billion in reserves & rainy day fund, 300K+ unemployed and thousands of restaurants, clubs and other small business teetering on the edge of oblivion. 1/

Mick McAteer

MickMcAteer

Great from @chakrabortty Now received wisdom amongst some pundits that no point Lab taking on Tories on public spending-everyone agrees on need to spend etc etcNot true. Tories have spent

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