#Economics

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

30 million workers have had their financial lifeline cut off, and talks are stalled. But this isn't because "Congress" is dysfunctional; it's because *Republicans* are wedded to nonsense economics 1/

Wealth Director

wealth_director

𝟓 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐲 @BillGates =THREAD= 1. The Choice, by Dr. Edith Eva Eger“Time doesn’t heal. It’s what you do with time. Healing is po

The Justin Horton Show

ejhchess

I wonder whether there have been any shrieking-hysteria campaigns over the past few years in which leading liberal journalists have been happy to participate, and whether this led to an

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

You know who was a "sucker" that paid taxes?John D. Rockefeller[THREAD] And the kicker? the tax code was written with him and his family in mind. You see, when the

José Maria Macedo

ZeMariaMacedo

Leading up to today's Clubhouse, @Delphi_Digital is excited to share our proposal for @PowerTradeHQ's token economics: https://www.delphidigital.io/reports/proposed-powertrade-token-economics/We see Powertrade's tokenized insura

Gray "serial millennial myth debunker" Kimbrough

graykimbrough

So many economists are working hard to improve the profession. But still we have an incredibly prominent economist (Nobel prize winner, longtime University of Chicago professor) spouting things as harmful

Dr Kiran Kumar Karlapu

scarysouthpaw

People should have a look at the Ganja seizures stats in India. Most Ganja originates in the Andhra-Orissa border, dominated by the Naxalites, grown by forced labour.A prime source of

Have you SEEN this mess?

fj

Somebody didn't understand "safe spaces".We already have heard racist, homophobic, misogynist, trans-phobic ideas all our lives. They're not even challenging, they just won't shut up for a second so you

Elad Verbin

verbine

If we keep pretending that token-based governance is a thing, we'll just keep designing dysfunctional systems that only serve as fodder for speculators. If you want to design tokenized systems

Ross Douthat

DouthatNYT

Going to argue, mildly, with this @streeterryan piece for a moment:https://thedispatch.com/p/trumpism-is-more-about-culture-than I said mildly because I completely agree with him that Trumpism is "an anti-leftist, anti-elitist cultural

Anna Gifty is finally on Tik Tok

itsafronomics

The silence of economists at a time like this is deafening. Some of you have really gone about your business like the world is not burning when your training and

Richard Spoor

Richard_Spoor

In my experience in Mpumalanga, there has been a significant decline in the number of commercial farmers the last several years. Small family farms have been swallowed up by large

Jambles

Jambles

The straw man built that the privledged want the end of a lockdown only so they can drink, exercise and surf when they want to, must be from people out

Justin Guay

Guay_JG

I almost skipped this ⁦@ezraklein⁩ pod w/Saul Griffith from ⁦@otherlab⁩ & I’m glad I didn’t. He has 3 important lessons climate hawks must push this fall: Climate Tests, Mandates and

Armine Yalnizyan

ArmineYalnizyan

Same on timely labour market information.Yet we know from census stats (and some epidemiological data in public health) that low-income is associated with shorter life expectancy and greater risk of

Matthew E. Kahn

mattkahn1966

This is very interesting. Permit me to make some Roy Model migration points and one general equilibrium point. A "slow moving" local disaster shifts expectations about the future economic opportunity