#Policy

"If you're the NFL and you're looking at what happened with the Marlins, you have to expect that something like this is going to happen to you.” Can the @NFL
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In 1995, Elaine McCoy chaired an Alberta government joint review committee that unanimously recommended against implementing "right-to-work" legislation in the province. #ableg #canlabHere are some of the final report's summar
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I have complex and mixed feelings about Trump's Twitter ban. On one level it's obviously good, in the sense that it makes the world a tangibly, measurably better place. But
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Jason Kenney just cited NL's provincial police force as evidence a similar set-up can work in Alberta. Having non-Albertans (like RCMP) come into the province isn't effective community policing, he
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[Just rode 5 miles one-way on my bike to Walmart. 88°, sunny and humid af]Outside at a podium stood a woman in a mask. She is there to enforce masks
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in 2020 i meditated on the following ; scroll if you hate when i tweet threads. it’s okay to love hard. a friend once told me i do a couple
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this point made me think of a really important distinction in realizing how sheltered my thinking is/was on stuff like thishttps://twitter.com/latimes/status/1275866892960509954 when you move to LA it takes you ages
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Germans are way ahead of their political leadership. Almost 50% think the current #lockdown light is too soft. #Merkel saw all of this coming, of course. It's mostly the stupidity
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10 yrs ago today Congress voted to end #DontAskDontTell, which lifted the policy 9 months later (apparently DoD needed time for "implementation"). Truly a day worth remembering. But it's still
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George W. Bush remains the worst President of the 21st Century, it's not even close. Genuinely there is absolutely no debate between Trump or Bush being worse. Trump, for all
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Europe's racist exploitative past involved exploiting people in other countries, and later closing off borders to the same peopleThe US's racist exploitative past involved exploiting people within the US itself,
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the future of macroeconomics is bright! you will often hear me say that. why? what makes me absolutely sure it's true? [no, it's not a low bar of our current
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ya know....I am sick of sanctomonious Americans comparing the US to a "banana republic"...The writer O. Henry first coined the term to describe a fictional small, single crop country with
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Recently published paper in @JPubEcon :"Do Americans Want to Tax Wealth? Evidence from Online Surveys" Vol 188 (August)by Raymond Fisman(@RFisman ), Keith Gladstone, Ilyana Kuziemko(@ikuziemko ), and Suresh Naidu (@snaidunl
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1. Some hard truths that is happening in our country. I will explain in layman terms under this tweet.Policy Rate remains static at 11.50% as at Jan 2021Cash reserve ratio
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Two more stories about @Transition46's self-sabotaging pick of Tom Vilsack to the USDA, in the @Nytimes and this one from @GeorgeGoehl director of @PplsAction:The Biden team has united the multi-racial
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