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Joe Pompliano

JoePompliano

Giannis Antetokounmpo signed a $228 million dollar extension with the Milwaukee Bucks yesterday — the richest contract in NBA history.The craziest part?It was a bargain.Time for a thread 1)

Jack Schneider

Edu_Historian

Not sure how to feel about the fact that Democrats for Education Reform, a neoliberal group that has done much to undermine the strength of public schools, is now turning

COVID-19 Infographics

C19Infographics

Domestic Abuse⁣⁣Since the first lockdown in England, data has shown that domestic violence cases have increased, particularly types of violence against women and girls.⁣⁣However, anyone can be a victim of

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

Barack Obama took office amid an economic crisis. Joe Biden takes office amid a civilizational crisis.He must know that you don’t heal a nation through avuncular kumbaya bipartisan shamanism.You heal

JayEnAar

GorwayGlobal

Thoughts on #PunjabFarmers protests, Modi's #FarmBills 1. The protests and the bind that Mr Modi finds himself in are entirely of his own making. Had he followed the standard procedure

Michael Donnelly

donnellymjd

(1/15) As NY braces for more #COVID19 restrictions, let's understand why certain out-of-home activities are being restricted before others.In particular, why restrict indoor dining and bars before salons and gyms?Let's

Ernie Tedeschi

ernietedeschi

Ugh. Jobs Day, December 2020 Interestingly, with the +135,000 revisions to Oct and Nov, employment was "only" down -5,000 from what we thought before. With today's -140,000 payroll read, the

Eric Tymoigne

tymoignee

Here is summary of my most recent paper published last june:1- monetary sovereignty: government issues an inconvertible currency, sets monetary laws, imposes dues to be paid with the national currency,

Dr. Jennifer Doleac

jenniferdoleac

Econ papers about witches & witch trials: .@tedmiguel (2005) "Poverty and Witch Killing”https://doi.org/10.1111/0034-6527.00365 Johnson & Koyama (2014) "Taxes, Lawyers, and the Decline of Witch Trials in France”https:/

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/7Good article by Janan Ganesh, but while I agree that governance is what democracies are supposed to do best, I would also argue that democracies, as Churchill is supposed to

Kelly Brown

rubiconcapital_

The unconvincing analysis from your Ontario #COVID19 Science Table; a quick thread… Michigan has been used as a reference point by the Science Table since October 9th…. And again, in

Paul Burrows

PBurrowsWpg

1) Minimum wage will never rise high enough & fast enough to account for all the ways that the lion's share of the economic pie that all humans create is

Sergey Radchenko

DrRadchenko

Spent a few hours reading the Soviet records on the deep freeze in Soviet-US relations in the early 1980s. Moscow resented US pressure on human rights, on Afghanistan, on Poland.

Tom Fowdy

Tom_Fowdy

I noted a Global Times editorial today sought to play down two forecasts of China's economy becoming the world's largest by 2028. The content of the articles did not seek

Bella Goth

HoodSocialism

Thomas Sankara was assassinated 31 years ago today. Today we remember Thomas Sankara. Thomas Sankara proudly stood against colonialism & launched one of the most prestigious programs for social &

Dr. Thrasher, jouRNAlist

thrasherxy

It's been good to be in communication w friends in the UK. At the start of COVID, I assumed the NHS would address the pandemic much better than US patchwork

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