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Stephanie Kelton

StephanieKelton

THREADWhat if, instead of tolerating a huge spike in joblessness, the government just made it (nearly) impossible for employers to lay off workers while the economy is “turned off”? According

Thomas Sampson

thom_sampson

Four years on, how has the Brexit vote affected the UK economy?Higher import prices, reduced investment, slower growth. Trade & employment resilientEvidence points to annual cost per person between £500

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

dwschanz

New! My coauthor Abby Pitts & I just released week 2 results from the @COVIDImpact survey looking at #foodinsecurity & food pantries in May.Bad news: food insecurity is still up

Ed Kong

edkong

New Preprint with Daniel Prinz: How do #Shutdown policies affect unemployment during #COVID19? We find that limits on bars and restaurants caused modest increases in unemployment and discuss implications for

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hyptea

Hi, econ honor student here! No matter who, E*GENE or not, the point is: YOU ARE A SHOP, NOT A STAN ACCOUNT. Not only was it unprofessional, but it reflects

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

1/ VIX 101If you follow the financial news, you've probably heard a lot of talk recently about the VIX.But what is the VIX and how does it work?Here's VIX 101!

Joelle Gamble

joelle_gamble

A year ago, I finished my grad degree at Princeton. It got me thinking about how much I learned and how much I had to unlearn to be anti-racist in

Claudia Sahm

Claudia_Sahm

/ thread on jobless benefits. debate we SHOULD have.ya' know what I would like to see the econ world fired up about **instead** of the possible work disincentives from jobless

Rashmi#Witness#NoToCAB_NRC

Ra_shmi_Tweets

Economists are like politicians, each of us can interpret a concept, a market proble in our own way, and this makes Economic theories more complex and people feel it's all

Basie Grandchild

BasieGrandchild

1/@AqillizOfficial, @xfers and @hg_exchange alone have the potential to lockup over 27% of the TOTAL supply of $ZIL (that's almost 6 billion $ZIL)!Econ 101: reducing supply (with constant demand) will

Dr Sandeep Parwaga

drsparwaga

This is a (long) thread on how financialisation impacts the housing market, and why I have singled out the below tweet (spoiler alert: because the same happens in the housing

Jordan Ryan

JordanRyanArch

I've been following the criticism of the @IndyMonthly porch party story and there's a central architectural theory talking point that was missed: porch placement design.Most homes built before the 1940s

John Poe

DavidPoe223

Well I guess Mr Dr Ranty Methods Curmudgeon is back because I'm about to go off on people muddling critiques of propensity score matching 1/https://twitter.com/PHuenermund/status/1251953408497668096 PSM is a method with

Beth Popp Berman

epopppp

Reading Mark Solovey's Social Science for What?, on the history of social science funding at NSF, and might take a few notes here. It's open access at @mitpress:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/social-science-what I know

Daan

DaanVanDenHam2

Ok. So I think we have another Jones Day Associate. Some friends and I noticed that Path Integral Salesman guy seems like a physics bullshitter. Since he’s public about who

IntelArb

intelarb

The ULTIMATE guide to the very best accounts to follow on Financial Twitter.In my opinion, these are the best of the best.Hoping this will be a value-add to answer the