#Economist

Dear all. I am writing about the merits, dangers and effectiveness of phone-based contact tracing this week. if you know something about one or more dimensions of this issue please
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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
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Our cover leader this week. "The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity ... If liberals say nothing about today’s single worst violation outside a war zone, how
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The @TheEconomist -- but not the U.S. Treasury -- embraces an SDR allocation.(the Economist is an overstatement of course, the column is from the author of "Free exchange" this week
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Such a wildly premature judgment. "The deference to Western societies, which was the norm in the 19th and 20th centuries, will be replaced by a growing respect and admiration for
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Ugly but informative plot: Trump's approval rating is much higher than the poor state of the economy would suggest, fitting with theories that economic perceptions/actual conditions have limited influence over
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"The paper reckons that 7M Americans were infected from March 8-14, & official data show 7K deaths three weeks later. The resulting fatality rate is 0.1%, similar to that of
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"Estimates by The Economist suggest that publicly listed firms, excluding state-controlled ones, account for 14-32% of the world’s total emissions, depending on the measure you use."https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/06/18/g
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The benefits of Brexithttps://www.economist.com/node/21786900?frsc=dg%7Ce It's the first time EU is taking another route that would have been blocked by Britain. Imagine the counterfactual. Any government of the past 30 years
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"China’s rulers view the West as ill-disciplined, weak and venal, and are seeking to bring it to heel, like a dog...China is increasingly sure that America is in long-term, irreversible
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If MMTers were just doing standard Keynesian macro, then we would not have arrived at completely different conclusions (from mainstream Keynesians) re: the Bush tax cuts, the Clinton surpluses, the
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Excellent @S_Rabinovitch article in the Economist.h/t @andrewbatson https://www.economist.com/china/2020/05/07/a-slump-exposes-holes-in-chinas-welfare-state Good thread as well(am a bit late to this)https://twitter.com/S_Rabinovitch/status/1258564245
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The picture is grim, but it might be even worse. Thanks to @datadista for compiling the Spanish data and @gilbellosta for starting the conversation.https://twitter.com/J_CD_T/status/1245739661449977867 We have been tracking the numbers
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The Economist | The Pampers index https://www.economist.com/node/21791190?frsc=dg%7Ce via @TheEconomist Price differences across Europe are often really striking And price convergence has stalled. (Chart from @spignal piece on single market
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The market is doing well for the start of a "Great Depression" and in related news Matt Walsh isn't an economist or an epidemiologist.https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1249412488363376640 I'm also not an economist, but
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wish i had a + could predict what "new normal" will be. How much of this spike in video, collaboration will be sustained? How long before large events, conferences,
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