#Economist

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Breaking—A person who attended Trump’s Michigan rally just tested positive for coronavirus after Saginaw-area rally, Michigan officials say. 10,000 attended the partially-indoor MAGA rally. #COVID19. We epidemiologists warned it was

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

The insanity of this piece aside, theres no better proof of the incompetence & dishonesty of Navarro than his new op-ed in USA Today. He makes sweeping statements with links

Bjorn Lomborg

BjornLomborg

Economic analysis from @ThunstromLinda and colleagues shows the benefits of social distancing outweigh the economic costs by $5.2 trillion(Paper available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3561934)https://thehill.com/policy/fi

Geoff Kabaservice

RuleandRuin

1. In case you missed it, @NiskanenCenter has put up a recording of today's webinar with myself and @jerry_jtaylor, @lindsey_brink, and @hamandcheese discussing Brink and Sam's new agenda paper, "Faster

Arthur Joannard

arthurjoannard

Comment augmenter tes ventes de 40% Sans changer d’offre Grâce à cette faille psychologique [THREAD ] Faisons une expérience :Tu veux t’abonner au magazine l'Équipe qui propose 2 formules :1/

Corbin K. Barthold

corbinkbarthold

A few abstract thoughts for today's #Section230 hearing:(1) Primates with big brains can now use networked electronic devices to meet and learn. Also, they can form digital tribes and throw

Wash Your Beefy Arms - #WearAMask - No Burninating

yawetag

After @elizhargrave posted a screenshot of a comment written by a man claiming she has hate in her heart, I decided to continue reading the other comments to a blog

Bobbette From Brixton

WhoTheFIsDis

I’m going to do a thread on how Jamaica is going down a slippery slope with their housing developments and these exorbitant prices, and what we can learn from Portland,

Harold Pollack

haroldpollack

I found this 2013 post, where I proposed a set of quantitative skills every reporter should have to cover health care+public policy. These are roughly the skills I'd expect of

Eyob Aselefech Balcha

BalchaEyob

Celebrating #Thandika #Mkandawire Week1: it's been just a week since we've lost one of the greatest African political economist of our time, Thandika. As a way of honouring his achievements

WHO's on First? Wuhan's on Second

Loneprotester

So, yesterday, to no acclaim at all (seriously people, crickets) I emitted a tweetstorm about a Harvard study that was being used to justify demands for 5 MILLION tests a

Tikhi Mirchi 🌶

bustingjumla

1st jumla busted. @narendramodi says, no ppe kits were being manufactured in india before corona. All these industries didn't start within 2 months. go get some knowledge oldy 2nd

Bloomberg CityLab

CityLab

1/ When people moved out of expensive cities, where did they go?A year of migration data reveals trends and interesting surprises:https://bloom.bg/3xCC4YB 2/ After much speculation about emptied downtowns and the

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

Conservative economists are so embarrassing. You're almost 63 years old and you still believe in the invisible hand of the free market? Okay. Most of us outgrew imaginary friends before

Lauren Chapman

laurenechapman_

Let's talk about vaccine hesitancy: aka the topic I personally understand the least and am therefore the most invested in better understanding holistically.https://www.wbaa.org/post/vaccine-hesitancy-barrier-herd-immunity-there-s-more-i

dri

DriXander

90% of the world’s fisheries fully exploited or facing collapse: https://nyti.ms/2qkQcTH West Africa now go to spot for Chinese fishing. Warming seas are driving commercial seafood poleward into waters controlled