#Globalization

James Baird

james_d_baird

The Barbell Strategy@nntaleb pioneered and popularized this approach to investing. Let's break it down!In a nutshell:1. put 90% of your money in risk-free assets, protecting your downside.2. bet 10% on

William Gillis 🏴

rechelon

It would be interesting to make a graph of how many people could parlay being an anarchist into a career over time. I'm not unsympathetic, but the sheer inability to

Steph

stephyy1214

white people are the most unoriginal, uninteresting bunch - and they still wanna act superior First of all, the only reason Europeans wanted to “explore” in the 15th century

Raoul Pal

RaoulGMI

It's Friday night on FinTwit, so it's booze night...It's been a while since my rum thread. Time to talk wine! Stories of bond villains, globalization and the world's most underpriced

Mathieu Duchâtel

mtdtl

A Chinese view on the border clashes with India: thread presenting the key points of a CICIR analysis: “The behavioral logic of India’s tough diplomacy toward China”. Hu Shisheng is

David Frum

davidfrum

This story in the New York Post is corroborated by African sources too. https://www.africanews.com/2020/04/11/coronavirus-updates-across-africa-africanews-hub/ It inspires me to answer the challenge raised by @billmaher on Friday night: why *not* ref

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

Idaho is the fastest-growing state with the best economy since Trump occupied the White House in 2016.Why? While President Trump is assailing globalists, the Gem State is embracing themhttps://trib.al/GccA0tc Aside

Crisis Group

CrisisGroup

How will #COVID19 impact states in conflict? Here are some thoughts from @CrisisGroup s president @Rob_Malley and UN Director @RichardGowan1. Bottom line: the tail of this crisis will be with

Chris Fredericks

tvfchris

Some thoughts on the future of capitalism...In spite of some significant trade offs, free market capitalism has been THE primary force that has reduced human suffering to it's lowest point

Justin Sandefur

JustinSandefur

Everything you know about cross-country convergence is (now) wrong.https://www.cgdev.org/blog/everything-you-know-about-cross-country-convergence-now-wrongIn which @dev_a_patel, @arvindsubraman, and I take issue with a new JEL review that s

Frédéric Leroy

fleroy1974

Relax! The founder of @WEF, Klaus Schwab, has described 'stakeholder capitalism' as his preferred model, positioning 'private corporations as trustees of society' to 'address social and environmental challenges'.http

Alok Bhatt

alok_bhatt

Far fetched idea it may seem today but @WhiteHouse will do well to do China on China by promoting Russia, India and Vietnam as an alternate to China....Europe cant survive

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

Without stepping too much outside of my wheelhouse, As I am not a demographer or historian of biostatistics, I wanted to do a synthetic thread on ‘population’ & its role

Tim Carney

TPCarney

I'm sorry, this paper by Paola Giuliano and Romain Wazciarg has me too damn excited. Their finding is, in essence, the central political finding of Alienated America. http://papers.nber.org/tmp/59388-w27651.pdf (So yes,

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/Want to know how activists in places like Portland take over roads, smash windows, light buildings on fire, and still have the press call them non-violent? Well, as it turns

Anton Jäger

AntonJaegermm

Re-reading @IsabellaMWeber's book on China and these tweets does give you a feeling of a certain ‘doux commerce’ thesis that runs through left and liberal writing on global capitalism post-1989,