#Economic

Completely free non-fiction advent calendar thread. One book recommendation a day from my best-of 2020 reading list. Happy holidays. Day 1: Skin in the Game by @nntaleb - not new
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almost quaint that IMF still holds onto 'human capital' to account for divergent growth performance, but then I read about Eastern Europe's 'success' story and am reminded of how destructive
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The Bitcoin Standard by @saifedean is arguably the most comprehensive book for explaining the value proposition and infallibility of Bitcoin in a fiat system.This thread explores the relationship between money
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I use to think parenting was the prime goal of this life bruhh! But seeing how people talk about their parents and all the "you don't owe your parents blah
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How much do streaming services pay?Here’s the streaming rates in £ and with UK minimum wage.Source: @thetrichordist via @MrTomGray (posted in April 2020) #BrokenRecord Join the #FixStreaming brainstorm and insightful
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The Covid grift being run by Dems and the media is uniquely loathsome in that they they encouraged and demanded the very social and economic shutdowns they are now decrying
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German division and reunification and the “effects” of CommunismSome caveats from f/c JEP paper with @LukasMergele & Ludger Woessmann @ifo_Education https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/manage/publications/4
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1/ What does the agreement on the distribution of @SNB_BNS profits imply for the size and volatility of distributions? This note aims at providing some answers applying the new rule
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The kind of self-hatred that's a positive signal on an individual level is maladaptive on a civilizational scale. An individual who hates herself and thinks that everything about herself is
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I committed to vote no on the City's FY21 budget if it did not cut at least $1B from the NYPD. Not moving budget lines around. But real, meaningful cuts.The
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A few thoughts about #competition.1. Competition could be seen as the defining value of our times. It is the touchstone of conservative/radical right politics. Even formerly left parties now treat
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Breaking Twitter silence to talk about $XHV.I've held my tongue for too long.@HavenProtocol is the most bullish project in the space, at the intersection of the three biggest trends in
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Some thoughts on Public Debt Sustainability...In light of this week’s OBR public finances update, and the appalling public discourse that followed, the sensible narrative has turned to the matter of
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In my college days me and my friends did an economic profit analysis of Arsenal FC from 2004-2014. We used Regression Analysis for doing that. Data used from Emirates and
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Some COVID predictions.1. I think we will see something approaching @balajis’s “Green Zones” in well-resourced, demarcated urban areas like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle even without border restrictions.Boston and
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A thread of gratitude for those doing the heavy lifting in my district: Starting with @navigatemn. Led by immigrants, they’re building power for gender, racial and economic justice.https://www.givemn.org/organization/Navigatemn The work
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