#Brookings

Alex Jacquez

AlexSJacquez

Interesting NBER day paper on Credit Smoothing, or the idea that people will use more/request more credit as a response to negative income shocks. The paper finds, contrary to standard

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

These numbers are horrifying.If Trump had done an average job compared to other industrial countries, the numbers on the left would be our new cases per thousand and new deaths

Inflection Point

Cobleone

1.74 Coup on @POTUS supplemental:Fiona Hill Perjures Herself Before CongressDenying to work for George Soros she testifiedcalling him a Globalist is Anti-SemiticSept, 2018 we warned ms hill was a Globalist

Hank Green

hankgreen

Wealthy progressives need to sit the fuck down. Right now Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are shouting that Biden needs to eliminate the $10,000 cap on the State and Local

Christen Linke Young

clinkeyoung

Another wrinkle in HHS's announcement about payments for uninsured COVID-19 patients. @AmyLotven reports that HHS claims that people with short-term plans won't count as "uninsured" for these purposes. That's (partially)

Amy Liu

amy_liuw

This is grossly irresponsible with a naive sense of what state and local govts do. 1/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-22/mcconnell-says-he-favors-allowing-states-to-declare-bankruptcy First, state and local govts employ 13 percent of t

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

I missed this, from Adam Posen, about how we should stop thinking of Japan as a cautionary tale and learn lessons from its successes. Completely agree 1/https://www.ft.com/content/f478f51f-2900-4558-bf0f-d224453e88bf Back in the

Adie Tomer

AdieTomer

Amid the “will cities survive #COVID19?” narrative, there has been talk that people were already leaving center cities. It’s not true! In fact, downtown population energy is real and likely

Shadi Hamid

shadihamid

Sweden is doing exactly what Trump threatened to do—keep the economy, restaurants, and bars open. Yet they have all the things we don't have: centrist leaders, reliance on experts &

Jed Kolko

JedKolko

I think the opposite is true. Short thread.The relationship between death rates (and case rates) and (1) density and (2) partisanship has gotten slightly _stronger_ in recent weeks. Here's the

Password Hunter02

BenKTallmadge

If you count the total amount of money Brookings members (John Thornton, Ret. Gen. John Allen, Teresa Heinz, ChiFi hubby Dick Bloom, Glenn Hutchins..) are making from the Chinazis, there’s

RRoach

PoiDogGrowls

1/5 @JoeBiden,@michaelmina_lab,@DrTomFrieden,@KimberlyAmadeo,@laurenlbauer,et al,@IgorDerysh Igor Derysh published an excellent article on the cost of American health care at http://Solon.com . Please read. It concerns every induvial l

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

I have to admit that I'm baffled by the Trump/McConnell strategy of stonewalling on aid to hospitals and state governments. I get that they have bad intentions, but what's the

Shadi Hamid

shadihamid

[THREAD] A few responses to @mehdirhasan. The most important thing we can do as analysts is speak to new and different audiences. The Federalist isn't radical. It's firmly on the

Constantino Xavier

ConstantinoX

Thread 3/7:MultilateralismMust India’s foreign affairs strategy change?S. Menon, India (Brookings)Alyssa Ayres, USA (CFR)Justin Vaisse, France (PPF)Dino P. Djalal, Indonesia (FPCI)Rory Medcalf, Australia (ANU)Transcript + video:https://ww

MediaJustice

mediajustice

NEW! We recently teamed up with @Witnessorg & movement partners to dive into the rising threat of deepfakes. Together we explored the danger & distilled key #DisruptDisinfo strategies. Read the