#Economic

Ferg

trader_ferg

ThreadA lot of people don't seem to grasp the bigger picture of the tanker trade.Everyone tried to play the storage story last year and got burned when it didn't materialize

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/5I was just re-reading Jagdish Bhagwati’s 1998 article "The Capital Myth: The Difference Between Trade in Widgets and Dollars" on why free capital flows are not a corollary of free

Andy Fraser

andy_utoronto

During covid times, the entire working population has taken a massive hit to save the lives of the retired population. That was absolutely correct - but that sacrifice leaves scars

John McNally

johngmcnally

I wrote an essay about what a net-zero target means for Canada. What problems will we have to overcome? What will be the biggest barriers? What ideas have promise? And

billy buttons

billy__buttons

The Eels annual report was released last week and has some really interesting numbers in it - this thread will share some highlights (@EelsTCT has a whole interview on it

GlumBird

GlumBird

The British government has replaced £30 food vouchers with this, intended for a child for three days to a week. This is economic violence against the working classes’ children and

Diane Swonk

DianeSwonk

Beware of the Jan employment report. We could be surprised on the *UPSIDE* due to how the seasonal adjustment process works. Jan is the worst month of the year for

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IlluminateDark8

Message From Michael TellingerMichael Tellinger is a South African author, politician, explorer and founder of the Ubuntu Party which supports the supply of free resources across society.MUST READ FOR MY

Michael Bayer

mbayer1248

The work for systemic justice is hard. Do you want to make a specific, meaningful impact right now?Buy your church a washing machine and dryer. Let people who need to,

Samuel Miller McDonald

sjmmcd

Every single economic growthist—whether liberal, socialist, centrist, or any other sort—is still a growthist only because they lack a basic understanding of ecological sciences (or are bad faith nihilists!) A

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

Government has paid private firms £6.5BILLION during COVID crisis as services struggled | Daily Mail OnlineTussell database reveals:More than 1,200 deals have been done, often without tendering.Often Contracts still unpublishedhttps://www.

Ann Owens

AnnOwens_

School funding matters. But researchers (me first) need to do better at articulating what inequalities segregation actually creates. E.g., the $23B disparity cited here excludes federal Title I funds, so

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/6Debt does matter, as Sharma argues here, but it matters because balance sheet structures matter. Fragile balance sheets limit operational flexibility, increase uncertainty, exacerbate volatility, and set off a wide

Kate Andrews (she/her)

kateality

Healthcare premiums make no sense. Let’s quickly run through why. #ableg From the gov side, they are expensive to administer. An increase to an existing tax has a small incremental

Shane

scary_biscuits

Margarine peddlers do everything they legally can to trick shoppers into associating their products with butter. 'Butter(y)' in centre of pack, no indication they're vegetable oil products, yellow packaging to

Nicola McEwen

McEwen_Nicola

Okay. So having read Starmer's speech, I am none the wiser about Labour's devolution policy, other than to set up (another) commission to come up with a policy. I have

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