#Spending

Michael Wara

MichaelWWara

A number of threads today have been picking up on a central point about the wildfires currently burning in Northern California that I think bears emphasizing. We cannot firefight our

Chris Giles

ChrisGiles_

Why is the UK economy performing worse than other countries during the coronavirus pandemic?Is it just a question of measurement?tl:dr No1/ https://www.ft.com/content/c5d72dea-50bc-4f1f-98d3-bc758aafa905?desktop=true&segmentId=d8d3e364

Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette

Veritas_DHG

I’m undecided as to whether this is more fuckery from Bill Barr or just standard corporate capture at #DOJ. Or maybe some combination of both. Sometimes the worst corruption is

Paul Johnson

PJTheEconomist

All that extra money announced by govt last week not quite what it seems. https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14938The "Rooseveltian" additional £5.5bn of capital spending represents an increase of precisely zero this year on

Robert Stein

BobStein_FT

The following chart shows why we don't need to be too concerned about the recent surge in gov't debt: Notice how net interest paid by the Treasury Dept has plummeted,

Senator Rand Paul

RandPaul

Today around 1:45 I'll speak on the effect Congress’ reckless spending will have on future generations and once again I'll call for finding savings in the current budget to pay

Heather Forbes

yes_lovewins

Finding self worth when you’ve spent a lifetime avoiding it is overwhelming. I really had no idea I felt so deeply about life. I had blocked that out. And, when

Sen. Towelpatine

DeplorableNV

In response to this drop: How do you remove foreign interference? How do you show the public the truth? How do you safeguard elections?-Set it up in advance to document

Alexis Le Nestour

Alenestour

@SFCarvalho_edu , @AnaMinardi1 and I have been looking at what could happen to household education spending following the Covid-19 economic shock. A short summary thread. https://twitter.com/CGDev/status/1334906178665664512 In developing co

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

Excellent thread.Stunning magnitudes: spending by unemployed increased about 25% relative to the consumption of the employed.If we had a stable program (not the on-off-on one we had) what would we

Adam Winkler

adamwinkler

The New York Attorney General's Office is set to make a major announcement today. The likely target isn't Trump -- it's the @NRA. (Thread) NY AG has been investigating the

Hugh Hewitt

hughhewitt

When President Obama pioneered selective enforcement of law, media elites applauded. Now there is this line: “The measures would attempt to wrest away some of Congress’s most fundamental, constitutionally mandated

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

The prime ministers of Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark and Austria, ask: “How could it suddenly be responsible to spend €500bn of borrowed money and send the bill into the future?” and

Ramit Sethi

ramit

With the push for hyper-personalization -- personalized workouts, supplements, personalized advice, even personalized mattresses -- remember this:Most people are mostly the sameBefore spending years and $$$ getting personalization, have you

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

An impressively thorough paper with the best evidence to date on the causal impact of various policies adopted in the CARES Act, from Chetty, @John_N_Friedman, @nhendren82 and others.https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/0

The Securocrat

TheSecurocrat

Obviously I won’t pass judgement on the DFID and FCO merger, but some interesting questions arise for the likes of @instituteforgov, @ORGinfo, @AndrewDormanIA and @josephdevanny UK aid spending (Overseas Development

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