#Economic

Trevor Mattos

trevormattos

Ran a quick data request today and found myself shocked even as I looked at a familiar story. The headline here is that *staggering* inequality reigned in Boston well before

⚡️ Dr. Pinkeee 🎶

Elinor_Carmi

Facebook in an inaccurate explanation about newsfeed to present as if things are ordered 'organically'. Let's reveal what they don't tell here:1. Facebook spies on your behavior within & OUTSIDE

Goldy

GoldyHA

1/ To add a little texture to @NickHanauer's thread, it's important to recognize that there's a good reason why orthodox economists (& economic cosplayers) so vehemently oppose a $15 min

Congressman Jared Golden

RepGolden

If Congress worked like it was supposed to, we would have passed bills to provide additional COVID-19 relief and fund the government months ago, through a transparent process that could

Andre Beltempo

AndreBeltempo

This is *mind-blowing*. The feds have given Ontario a firehose of money to stop COVID and promised more and the Province isn't spending it. But why? What 4D chess is

Jeremy Wagner

malchata

Sometimes I'll see tweets from guys on here all like "get a passive income stream, live within your means" and wonder why we aren't addressing the underlying causes of economic

Dr. Carlee Purdum

CarleePurdumPhD

I really want to talk about the belief that millennials have ruined the volunteer fire service. It came up a couple of times in my dissertation interviews, but it's thing.

Lauri Myllyvirta

laurimyllyvirta

Breaking: China's CO2 emissions reached an all-time high on the third quarter of 2020 as government's economic recovery approach favored heavy industry and steel mills skirted capacity controls. THREAD https://j.mp/2Jwrq18

Andreyka Natalegawa

a_natalegawa

THREAD: very interesting results from the @ISEAS State of Southeast Asia Survey 2021. A few highlights below- https://www.iseas.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-State-of-SEA-2021-v2.pdf Unsurprisingly, Covid-19 and unemployment/economi

Fridays For Future

Fridays4future

The myth of overpopulation as the reason for the climate crisis is the belief that there are more people than the planet is able to sustain.This narrative is used by

Brian Riedl 🧀

Brian_Riedl

MEGA-THREAD: @mattyglesias competently summarizes the "Debt no longer matters, so relax & add more" case. But these arguments - common on econ Twitter - dismiss two key realities:1) Baseline debt

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

Since we are relitigating the confederacy again let me say as someone who totally believed the “well it was really about economic interests and states rights” argument growing up what

Kelsey Cowger

honoredbyfoxes

Today, in an effort to become a @socialistdogmom-style muckraker but for Fluvanna County, I went to the county supervisors’ meeting. I was the only non-supervisor there, and they seemed very

Michael Li 李之樸

mcpli

Aside: I think it is interesting that of Joe Biden’s Asian appointees to his administration noticeably very few have been of East Asian descent compared to those of South Asian

Deplorable Pepe

CocosPatient

Okay fam, it's that time, Pepe thread time. Now, today's subject is going to be a little bit uncomfortable, personal finance. Buckle up fam, we're going to have

Zuri Davis

ProperlyZuri

Guess it’s time to share my most “controversial” opinion. I believe in reparations. I believe reparations for slavery are too late to be done fairly. But there are many atrocities

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