#Economic

Kibor Bundotich

KiborBundotich

IS AFRICA THE NEXT SUPERPOWER?https://kiborbundotich.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/is-africa-the-next-superpower/ Here is a controversial belief; Africa will in the coming decades rival China and other superpower countries to become a superpower

Eminently 🏳️‍🌈

eminently_me5

I gotta go but I want to throw out a quick thread on the history of identity politics. It’s so important. Please read to the end before commenting. 1/ ‘Identity

Betsy Hilton

betsyhilton

I want to take the time over the next little while to shout out to some local small businesses I love. I know it won’t matter from an economic standpoint,

Dr Olusoji PhD(Affidavit)

holusoji70

The last few decades have witnessed the growth of an American-sponsored Internet open to all. But that was then; conditions have changed. Its crystal clear that the reality of then is

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Doubling down on narrative rationality. I buy into the most compelling story I can find at any given time and navigate by it, whether it is apocalyptic, utopian, or in

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

yarbatman

1. So @SGhasseminejad has a new piece that is a really good example of the analysis that FDD tries to pass off as rigorous but is in bad faith. He

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ZBankEnt

How Amazon && other Tech Giants pay $0 in Taxes. #30DaysofThreads a good place to start is understanding economic incentives. Incentives, in laymen’s terms, sound like free money. Incentives, to

Jonathan Kay

jonkay

In retrospect, not so compellinghttps://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/1238540675781660672 Tangent: how much of the Cdn government's fatally bungled approach to COVID-19 was simply a reflexive desire to appear un-trump-esque (even if, ironically,

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

On Thursday the government will release its estimate of GDP growth in the third quarter. The number is expected to be something like 35%. Three bits of arithmetic context followed

Guanyi Yang

GuanyiYang

I literally just finished Economics of Discrimination for my labor class, and I changed how I teach this (and the entire labor econ) dramatically this year, after so disturbed by

David Roberts

drvolts

It's Friday afternoon, no one's reading Twitter, so it's a good time for a THREAD. I wanna try to capture some recent thoughts I've been having & figure out if

Sunny Mitra🇮🇳

Sunnymitra9

#ChineseVirusEconomicImpact#Volkswagen furloughs 1,500 workers at #Tennessee auto plant starting April 11.@VW#COVIDー19 #StayAtHome #StayAwareStaySafehttps://reut.rs/2XppWu8 #ChineseVirusEconomicImpact#Japan is paying #manufacturers to relocate

RadG_Dodo

RadG_Dodo

@davidbollier in https://www.arc2020.eu/coping-with-covid19-commoning-as-a-pandemic-survival-strategy/ points out how "many ideas once ignored or dismissed by Serious People now don’t seem so crazy". One of the most compelling i

Robert Peston

Peston

At the risk of breaching lockdown etiquette, I feel it would be remiss not to mention that the stats on #Covid19 infections, hospital admissions and deaths have been stable or

Brexitshambles

brexit_sham

SAGE member Prof John Edmunds speaks out.THREAD 1/7:'It's risky... there's not a lot of room for maneuver.. small changes can put the R number above 1. More importantly we still

The People's Oracle

PeoplesOracle

Finally making good progress on the 2021 Sidereal Astrology Guide.And let me tell you, February 2021? We are pressing reset on our new reality. We ain't going back folks. Saturn