#Wages

Roy Ngerng

royngerng

Was speaking to a Taiwanese friend, and I don't think it's popular to say this, but Tsai Ing-wen's presidency has been like Obama's, in that she was elected on a

halvarflake

halvarflake

A thread about my feelings as an immigrant to Switzerland, watching the handling of COVID right now:It feels like watching a slow-motion bus crash from inside the bus.A few numbers:

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docrussjackson

#Neoliberal deregulation & pure free-market #greed caused the 2008 financial crash, leading to a decade of #austerity which left Britain vulnerable to #COVID19.Yet since 2009, Britain's richest 1,000 people INCREASED

Liz Crash

AsFarce

William Ah Ket is well known as one of the very few early twentieth-century Chinese-Australian lawyers and a fierce opponent of racism. that's not what this thread is about. it's

Chris Murphy

ChrisMurphyCT

THREAD: Yes @ABlinken and Biden’s national security team have loads of experience, but they are open to new ideas.That’s key, bc U.S. foreign policy has become dangerously sclerotic, and progressives

Maya Contreras

mayatcontreras

Hi @AndrewYang,It’s not a mystery. We don’t need to “figure it out it”, it’s voter suppression, decades of hyperpartisanship, rolled up in disinformation. When Obama was elected in Ohio and

Coaching The GAAme

GAAmeCoaching

Counties look at Dublin/Limerick, wondering how do we catch up?Most solutions we hear about are short term & look at senior intercounty as the be all & end all.Dublins success

Dinesh Sairam

Dinesh_Sairam

1/ Since "liquidity" has been the buzzword these days, here's an anecdote and a powerful lesson from history about printing unlimited amounts of money. Story time. #fintwit 2/ Our story

Nathaniel🇰🇵✝️

NathanielSoviet

[CHINA IS SOCIALIST] This thread will explain why the People's Republic of China exists within Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and is one of the last existing AES. (Actual Existing Socialism).

nome

NomeDaBarbarian

Lemme do some quick back of the envelope math about wages.On a busy day at the pizza place, we'd have the following crew:Drivers: $2/hr Tip Wage - 44 man-hoursInsiders: $8/hr

Gilad Isaacs

GiladIsaacs

Should the $4.3 billion #IMF loan to South Africa (announced today) scare us? Potentially, yes. But, in my view, not for all the reasons you might be hearing. Some thoughts,

Swiss Ramble

SwissRamble

#FCBarcelona recent accounts revealed major debt challenges, but they also highlighted some issues around different definitions of debt, so this thread will take a look at these using 2019/20 accounts

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/9With Covid-19 having hammered consumption and forced up household savings, the FT advises that "for longer-term recovery, a shift from consumer spending to business investment will be needed. Governments can

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

Quick thread about the "college bailout" guised in good symbols, entreaties and threats... as every proper robbery should have. Flashback to the bank and auto bail out.But we gotta start

Jerry Shannon

jerry_shannon

Today's opinion piece in the @ajc by @GStaples_AJC makes the argument that dollar store bans are elitist and counter-productive. I'm not unsympathetic, but have some thoughts. 1/ On the one

Jason Kishineff 🌍 🇺🇸 🌹✌️🌻🌺

kishineff

I was listening to Pulitzer Prize winner @ChrisLynnHedges comparing Joe Biden to Franz von Papen of the Weimar Republic in 1932, and found it fascinating, so I did a little

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