#Economic

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

Thread: How the enslaved in Brazil used the u.s. civil war (1861-1865) to force Brazilian slavemasters into the crisis that led to "abolition".First, some very quick background. 1) More slaves

Jeremy Allaire

jerallaire

1/ Breaking major news from US Treasury OCC, the largest US banking regulator (@USOCC), with new guidance allowing US banks to use public blockchains and dollar stablecoins as a settlement

Side Hustle Approved 🥂

ApprovedSide

Think economic maturity:Do others succeed, due to more time?Value makes the difference in reciprocation. 5 LESSONS OF ECONOMICS:/// Thread /// FIRST LESSONWe primarily get paid for value!Know-Hows and/or How-TosYou should

Ben Golub

ben_golub

One amusing feature of math classes at the master's level or above is that they almost take pride in not motivating the subject in external terms. For example, here's a

Eric Merkley

EricMerkley

I code the "balance" of news stories - how slanted a given article is in favour of expert opinion or opposed to it (1 to -1). On average, balance tilts

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

The GOP spent most of 2020 rejecting science in the face of a deadly pandemic; now it's rejecting democracy in the face of a clear election loss. How did we

Kooky/کوکي ⚒️ 🔻

shawarmacommie

Ok, I may have lied. I am going to get political for a second. The narrative that is pushed by the West, that Stalin and Hitler's governments were comparable in

Telegraph Property

TeleProperty

Are house prices in a bubble that's about to burst? As strong as the property market is right now, experts are worried that it won't last.Mortgage broker @Coreco sums it

Emmanuel

ubongabasi

Nigerians are a very funny people.Just before the civil war, trains from Northern Nigeria were rolling into the East and South with headless bodies and bodiless heads of Easterners. Their

Nicole Auerbach 😷

NicoleAuerbach

NEW: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is introducing NIL legislation, which his office says will allow college athletes — individually and as a group — to make money off their names,

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

One of the last lines of defense against critiques of capitalism is that despite all of its flaws & shortcomings, at least capitalism fosters unprecedented innovation.But, as we will prove

Tom Clark

prospect_clark

1.Covid-19 is a sprawling crisis—everything from macroeconomics to remote parliamentary votes will eventually be trawled over by an enquiryBut as the UK toll closes in on 100,000 one question can't

Salena

DahlinFutureHab

has a pretty historic vote coming up to join much of the first-world with a Pharmacare program to save the country billions annually and more importantly, make prescription medication more

Kathryn Harrison

khar1958

Today the federal government dropped a new plan -- this one federal (not fed-prov!) -- to surpass Canada's current target to reduce emissions to less than 30% below 2005 by

Bill Hayton

bill_hayton

China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee is seeking public comments on a draft Coast Guard Law [海警法] for the South China Sea It looks like anyone can comment! https://npcobserver.com/2020/11/04/npcsc-solicits-public-c

visa is AFK working on @introspectVV

visakanv

Let’s rattle off a few https://twitter.com/cryptochamomile/status/1274527019984977921 “I don’t think you’re capable of holding an opinion that make people dislike you” - I was literally born with people disliking me, watch

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