#Economy

Tim Hogan

TimInHonolulu

1. On China: My home was like a little Chinese museum of things that my parents brought back after the fled Shanghai in the spring of 1949. Our folks raised

Motor City Muckraker

MCmuckraker

Without a widespread willingness of the populace to get vaccinated, the consequences could be disastrous: The pandemic won't end, leading to future surges, an overburdened healthcare system, a crippled economy,

Warren Gunnels

GunnelsWarren

The postal nominees that Bernie blocked were Republican white men picked by Mitch McConnell and opposed by the NAACP and the AFL-CIO because they wanted to privatize the Postal Service

Mia

CigaretteCalpol

Why you might still be waiting for your refunds from a gig/festival/show. A thread by one of the people responding to all your abusive emails. 1/14 (sorry) First of all,

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

The u.s. military made extensive use of Black chattel slaves before the civil war. Slaves were used to construct & staff military installations like forts. Slaves were also used as

Austerity is Murder🌹

sdgrumbine

Some basics.The US Dollar is a tax credit.It is a unit of measure.You can't run out of inchesYou can't run out of numbersThe government can't run out of dollars... unless

Nadim Shehadi

Confusezeus

Very useful background to the "negligence" that caused the tragedy in Lebanon by @glcarlstrom of @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2020/08/06/its-unbelievable-negligence-even-on-the-scale-of-the-perennially-negligen

Travis (not a Cylon) Kimmel

coloradotravis

Covid: brief commentary on the Federal Government’s failure to lead in a time of crisis, what “leadership” means (hint: it’s not socialism, you nitwits), and a logistics-centric proposal for how

Zachery Tyson✍️🇺🇸

ZaknafeinDC

The United States isn't Rome. It's the Soviet Union. What I mean is that we're not a stately empire being slowly devoured by migration and invasion. We're a bloated one

RP Mitchell

RPMComo

Said yesterday I agree with this. But my DMs full of people saying “fed up with all this witch-hunting”. Our private conversations are all similar aren’t they? I have a

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

The McTague article in the Atlantic on UK state failure read to me more like an introduction to an article on UK state failure ['maybe the UK state has failed,

°• Ronda

40_Ronda

#Coronavirus #WallStreetBailOut#StimulusBillThis bill represents a transfer of wealth and power to the super rich from the rest of us, with the support of both political parties ― a damning statement

Beth Joslin Roth

BethJoslinRoth

COVID cases, deaths, & hospitalizations in TN have all gone up in the month since the TN House passed a resolution in the middle of the night calling out the

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

It’s #JobsDay. This is a snapshot of the economy the next president will inherit. 0/ October was the 8th month of the COVID crisis in the U.S. labor market. We

Daniel Mügge

dmugge

Some scholarship about political process behind building statistics, economic and otherwise, that I have found useful. (Responding to @DanMertens query. Couldn't react with more than one tweet; hence this [lengthy]

War on Want

WarOnWant

The UK government just announced its "ambitious" climate target. This much is clear: it is failing to act with the urgency needed.Research shows that to do its fair share the

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