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Keith Ng
keith_ng
It's not "save the economy" vs "save lives", as if the two are independent, as if we have one single decision point.If heaps of people die, the economy will tank.If
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Roko - hereticalupdate.substack.com
RokoMijicUK
In retrospect it would have been better for white anti-racists to side with racists in the early 20th century and establish strict racial purity rules for countries. Perhaps we should
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Edmund_Kamugisha
edmokmg
Have you ever been scammed?Have you ever been scammed for a job?#thread So the other week, a really close colleague called me about an Economist role with @USAID in the
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Jack Sommers
shoewizard59
Possible Mortality Range of Covid-19 by time reach Herd Immunity. Don't know what % required to reach but most estimates 60-70%. Don't know % W/antibodies today. Varies greatly by region.
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bunnie
bunnievision_
Please don’t rely on SOCIAL media to educate you on current events.. I highly recommend checking out the Economist for news articles or if you don’t feel like reading Vox
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Mark Blumenthal
MysteryPollster
New: The weekly @TheEconomist/@YouGovAmerica surveys ask about voter enthusiasm in three ways, which allows for a reality check on the Trump-Biden "enthusiasm gap" 1/https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/0
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Matthew Bonds
MatthewBonds3
There is broad misunderstanding of how to interpret and best use models. Infectious disease models a la @neil_ferguson are best interpreted as providing a picture of what happens if we
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Bruce Preston
BruceJPreston
1/ We no doubt accept this argument for an intensive care specialist forced to choose to apply a *single* available ventilator to *one* and not the *other*. But it is
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Frank Talk
guillotineluvr
You can't be a good organizer without empathy, and you can't be an effective communist without being a good organizer. I get needing to denounce the liberal line that being
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Frances Weetman
francesweetman
An editor at the Economist made an off-hand comment about Korean Boy Band BTS, their fans harassed her so she apologised. I left the odd mildly sarcastic comment on the
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Soumaya Keynes
SoumayaKeynes
Hello! I wrote a thing about that tiny topic that is the future of world trade... featuring @kevinhorourke, @kdziczek, @jacob___parker, Mike Jette of @GEP_Worldwide, Pierre Sauvé of @WorldBank, Bernard Hoekman
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scott cunningham
causalinf
Interesting thread by someone new to #EconTwitter. I think there’s real challenges as Econtwitter scales up. I make it a point to follow every economist, and many periphery fields -
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Brett McGurk
brett_mcgurk
15 quick questions Trump may want to ask Erdogan, but won’t: 1. How exactly was Baghdadi living in a safe house with well-prepared tunnels less than 5km from your border?2.
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Jake Sherman
JakeSherman
LARRY LINDSEY is on Trump’s counsel to open up the economy. a year ago — 5/2019 -- he told House R leaders he had enlisted 2 psychiatrists to study Trump,
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Kris_Sacrebleu
A conservative friend said to me, we are so divided because of our sources of info. I get what she meant, respectfully, and I pondered it for a bit. But
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Matthew Yglesias
mattyglesias
People with stable incomes who’ve reduced consumption due to diminished opportunities to do things are over-represented in the policy dialogue relative to people who’ve been forced to curtail spending by
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