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Melissa Boteach

mboteach

Thread alertToday @nwlc & partners @Groundwork @rooseveltinst @GCPIEconSec are unveiling our work to #TaxthePatriarchy, releasing 3 new reports on why tax is a gender & racial justice issue.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/ta

Robb Smith

RobbSmith

1/ Had a bunch of friends ask me about post-Covid #housing mkt, obv a big topic on many minds. So let's do quick thread, just sharing some thoughts.Here's Case-Shiller home

Tom Ogorzalek

TKOPolitics

A quick thread on race, PPP covid relief, and Chicago. TL/DR: Yesterday, after dogged pressure from watchdogs and transparency advocates, the Department of Treasury released some data on the recipients

JC Punongbayan

jcpunongbayan

THREAD: Thoughts, comments on the econ managers' super early pre-SONA forum.Dominguez's preamble: "We need to divide the term of this admin. into 2 periods. The first is the period of

Kathryn Andrusky

kandrusky

If a certain Premier can *decide* to be an Epidemiologist-for-a-day, I figure I can take a crack at being an Economist. A lot of “party line” misinformation is still being

Josh Budlender

joshbudlender

This is outrageous - an RCT cutting off water to tenants in Nairobi "slums" to see if it induces their landlords to pay the utility bill. And reading the paper

David Edelstein

dmedelstein

Lots of discussion lately about what China's intentions might be going forward. So, I thought I'd put together a thread, @ProfPaulPoast-style, on what the IR theory literature has told us

Drew A Blank

HWKammers

1) Been thinkin about the person @AustinSteinbart. B4 I read any opinions, I decided 2 watch his video. (I inadvertently saw 1 opinion when I learned about him, which is

Alan Cole

AlanMCole

My new @JECRepublicans report. The basics: saving often gets a bad rap from demand-side macroeconomists, especially during recessions. However, under the particular circumstances of COVID-19, it's doing some good stuff!https://www.jec.s

Bot

AnunnakiBot

H1 Desde la antigüedad hasta la Invasión Mahometana Como esto no hay quien lo entienda, hay que remontarse a los origenes Para entender de donde salimos y como hemos llegado

Anna Stansbury

annastansbury

In our paper, @LHSummers and I argue that the *decline in worker power* is behind many of the major trends that have shaped the American economy in recent decades [1/N](WP

Beatrice Cherrier

Undercoverhist

Seems important for econs (& everyone, in fact) to follow historians of medicine/epidemiology, if only to learn lessons from history of econ & epi side by side. So here's a

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mnolangray

Rest in peace Jim Pagels. Jim was a lot of things—a flowering economist, a first-class writer, and a passionate urbanist. But to me, he was a really dear friend. Love

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

Have you been following the debate on trans rights lately? I have, through @HJJoyceEcon and @janeclarejones and others. It's pretty disturbing. I am not an expert. And my sex /

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

Why does data matter so much in #COVID19 and why is the UK getting it wrong? A thread on transparency. And it starts with this. This is the Hong Kong

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

COVID This Week The looming question: Internal travel restrictions1/22 This week: continued spread of Covid at a high rate in most of the US, continued shortages and delays in testing,