#Economic

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

My ideal COVID pandemic:China: Folks, there’s a virus, we’re going to be trustworthy and transparent, and we’ll need all the help we can get.World: Shit, virus sucks. Can we stop

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I am optimistic about the prospects for an effective Covid vaccine within a reasonable timeframe. Through phase 2 of numerous trials, nothing has gone spectacularly wrong.(I've written about a

Mohammad Hilali

IKON1436_

A thread on Polygamy and why it is allowed in Islam.Read and RT :) Much controversy surrounds the issue of polygamy and why Islam permits it and whether it is

Nodutdol | 노둣돌

nodutdol

South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha was grilled on CNN recently about South Korea’s new anti-leaflet law. What is the anti-leaflet law, and why is this issue being elevated by

David Henig

DavidHenigUK

Plenty of talk this morning about how UK sovereignty is what is stopping an EU deal, that the EU want to impinge on this.Sorry, the argument is totally bogus. It

Dr Elizabeth Buchanan

BuchananLiz

horrific gutting of Arts & Social Sciences. just last yr I co-authored a report commissioned for the Australian Office of National Intelligence (ONI) - on behalf of the National Intelligence

Anas Alhajji

anasalhajji

Short Thread on Canada's New Carbon Tax: 1- Most of the reduction in the emissions in Europe since late 1980s happened because they shifted them to China & other countries

Megan Metcalfe

MetcalfeMegan

If you're socially inclined 2 leftism, I understand you. I was the same way. I wanted life to be fair, to help the marginalized and impoverished, I wanted to do

StatisticusCollegium 🇬🇧

verumandverus

BREXIT THREAD - A FISH TAILSo what’s all the fuss about? Best place to start is here:"Under the European Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) the UK *ceded* control of fisheries within

Atheendar Venkataramani

atheendar

New @UWMadisonCFS working paper from our @OppforHealthLab team (Lizzie Bair, @RourkeOBrien, me) on the impacts of labor market #automation on #disability insurance applications and #mortality among working age adults.https://cfsrdrc.wisc.ed

Eugenia (Gina) South, MD MS

Eugenia_South

Black people are dying from opioid OD in Philly at alarming rates since COVID-19 In @JAMANetworkOpen, we use public data to compare fatal/nonfatal OD in months after stay-at-home to months

Mark Harrison

mark4harrison

Eighty years ago, it was the winter of 1940. Already terrible, #WW2 was coiled like a spring. It would shortly transform into something far worse. Fifty million people had yet

Mark Price

price_laborecon

In thinking about the proposal today to raise the minimum wage gradually to $15 by 2025 one thing that is important to keep in mind is the rise in inequality

Sticky Shoe

shoe_sticky

Before pandemic, 150 000 American workers / year were dying deaths of despair as direct result of policies enacted by neolib neocon coalition rallying behind Biden. Harvard scholars in Biden

Matthew Bisner

M_Bisner

Thread: I’ve been trying to piece together my thoughts on the circumstances for months now. What follows is my attempt to get my thoughts out in semi-coherent fashion. One of

Adam Ozimek

ModeledBehavior

Quick thread on the why and how of fiscal stimulus given the state of the economy. First it's important to understand the size of the damage. We have *still* lost

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