#Economic

Bloomberg CityLab

CityLab

For Citylab, @Richard_Florida analyzed how metro areas voted in 2020: Republicans drew support from White, working-class regions of the country Democrats drew from smaller and denser, more affluent, highly-educated coastal

Comhlámh

Comhlamh

Comhlámh is concerned that the government is moving to ratify the EU Canada Trade Deal known as CETA.https://comhlamh.org/blog/comhlamh-concerns-ceta-trade-deal/ Check out this report prepared by the Comhlámh Trade Justice Group. It's

Fuzzy Chimp

fuzzychimpcom

Socialism is a potluck you're forced to attend.There are 300 people and 50 bring food - all mushy canned green beans, which is the state-mandated minimum. There are 3 pieces

CryptoMathemagician

cmathemagician

Imagine you were born in 1900.When you're 14, World War I begins and ends when you're 18 with 22 million dead.Soon after a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu, appears, killing

tp ⟠

tp_1559

1/ Mirror ($MIR/@mirror_protocol) is a Synthetics protocol for on-chain price exposure to real world assets. 2/ Initially, Mirror will target US equities. "Why US equities? First, US companies dominate global

Dime

TradingDime

An alarming number of S&P500 companies may be in financial distress & at risk of default in the next 2 years. While no model is perfectly accurate, the Ohlson O-score

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

A question I pose to my grad students: should we trust data, especially historic data?Take historic international trade data. Should we trust it? [THREAD] What do I mean by "historic"?

Rick Zullo

Rick_Zullo

1) With the market up again after yesterday’s events, I think we must all take a look at current state of the market cycle and economy. In short, the economy

Shawn Moen

SmallDogFred

This piece sums up a lot of my recent concerns and brings to mind a few random thoughtshttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-is-sleepwalking-into-a-third-wave-and-it-could-be-the-worst-one 1) The emergence of variants with

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/I've been thinking back on the Bernie movement this week. And I felt it was time for a retrospective.So let's talk about that movement, and what it was, and how

Alan Levinovitz

AlanLevinovitz

I am...um...slowly coming around to critiques of (much) scholarly writing in the humanities. The problem isn't that people can't understand it—as I've pointed out, physics is hard for laypeople—it's that

Scott Coley

scott_m_coley

The reason that conservative evangelicals don’t take the time to critically examine the impact of their vote on abortion policy is that their vote is over-determined: they don’t just favor

Patrick Skinner

SkinnerPm

I support ‘defund the police’ if it means finally funding all the social/health/economic challenges that drive most of the calls to the police. Can’t really cut the number of police

Joe

realJosephRich

How have the Fed and the Federal Government created a massive moral and economic hazard through the options market?A quick thread./1 First, two things:1. The Fed is not buying stocks.2.

Ayesha Shahid

ayesharshahid

This argument shows a fundamental failure of understanding poverty and access to opportunities. Perhaps an outcome of seeing poverty alleviation through the lens of social protections/cash transfer programs. Let me

Rachel Esplin Odell

resplinodell

The current US approach to promoting human rights in East Asia is too geopolitical, punitive, & inconsistent. It promotes backlash without tangible improvements.The US must adopt a new multipronged approach

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