#Economy

💙⭐💙 Alan Rodgers

Bi99le5

Over the last five years I have been highly critical of those who said labour could go nothing because they 'weren't in power you know' and who pushed that dumbest

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

It’s important that general political commentators like @peston get to grips with precisely what is at issue here, and don’t shove it off to legal correspondents as a technical legal

mattparlmer 🌷

mattparlmer

Still stand by this. We need to start putting anybody who can't WFH in appropriate PPE and back to work. Even retail and restaurants can operate at a limited level

Kevin Roose

kevinroose

I am all for scrutinizing politicians' finances but the "Trump is recommending hydroxychloroquine because he has a stake in Sanofi" take is a stretch. It's more likely he sees a

David Aron Levine

davealevine

Coronavirus is tragic and the economic impact is sad, but it also highlights many things about our society. The air is cleaner now. Many are spending time with family in

Sarah Quinn

seattlesquinn

"It counts in the bill today"This reminds me so much of why Fannie Mae was "spun-off" in 1968 that I'm going to thread it.1/https://twitter.com/zachdcarter/status/1261330218914111501 In the 1960s a credit crunch

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DrutangAtHome

Just got converted back to being a leftist:They simply explained that the way to solve the problem of a corrupt corporate government was to give it more money and more

Meltem Demirors

Melt_Dem

1/ to all the crypto people obsessing over the recent news of a "digital dollar" - it's terrifying and is basically the opposite of what crypto is all about (systemic

Pallando the Blue

KomninosM

Quite often, Western European countries (Spain, Portugal, France, etc.) are accused of building their economy via the slave trade in the Early modern era. All this is presented as the

Shawna Gawreluck

ShawnaGofABPoli

As I’m pretty sure I fall into the very large category of those Mr O’Toole pledged to “take Canada back” from, I feel the need to make an evidently partisan

bob

suhasbaliga

Reproducing Article 19 here. Listing layman ways in which these have been ignored in the Pandemic. 1/n "(1) All citizens shall have the right(a) to freedom of speech and expression;"Surprisingly least

Tamara Kneese

tamigraph

Holed up w/ the whole fam in the bedroom w/ fans going, finally had a chance to read @afrontiercity on the failures of digital labor as a category of analysis

Alibaba Group

AlibabaGroup

Understand the different types of Chinese consumers, including Gen Z shoppers – digital natives who are among the fast-growing consumer segment in the world’s second-largest economy. More: http://alizi.la/2EutHHB Making up

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

#ModernMonetaryTheory is an economic lens for understanding how money works. It starts from the commonsense assertion that national governments are money-issuers, and the rest of us are money users, and

Desmond Dahlberg

ddahlberg94

The US economy saw another ~3 million initial claims for unemployment benefits in the week ending May 9. Though the "running total" of initial jobless claims since shelter-in-place orders took

Dr Naomi Wynter-Vincent

naomiwv

1. Political education matters, and it isn’t a given. My mum, a single parent on benefits throughout my childhood, at a point when single mums and their children were entirely