#Imports

The politics side of the equation you are missing on the NERDS side we can discuss here...follow me on this thread if you have some sunday morning patience. Cash dollars
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Fair summary of the data on the impact of Trump's China tariffs by @bobdavis187 and @JoshZumbrun.1/xhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/china-trade-war-didnt-boost-u-s-manufacturing-might-11603618203 Has some interesting color on polysilicon (
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A Thread: As a journalist, imagine you want to assess external sector outlook of your economy, try to concentrate these important ratios (compute these with actual data and compare them
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Today’s thread of intro class in contemporary #econissues is on the Current Account surplus. This being Twitter, I can’t get into all the nuances but the plan is to teach
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China’s economy continues to recover from its contraction earlier this year, showing the economic benefits from swift control of the pandemic and a rapid resumption of manufacturing (THREAD) https://trib.al/6ligyss  Chinese
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Why Pakistan on FATF’s grey list? A ThreadFATF Gray list means jurisdictions with strategic deficiencies in their local legislation to curb money laundering(AML) and terrorist financing(CTF). In June 2018, Pak
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Turkey's financial stress continues to be remarkably simple to explain: Turkey is running a current account deficit (now almost $25b on a trailing 12m basis, and more if you annualize
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The #UK and #EU may not reach a trade deal by end of transition. What would ‘no trade deal’ look like?NEW @UKandEU report tells you everything you need to know.Spoiler
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The Lira:USD exchange rate isn't exclusively determined by BDL. Let's be clear about how the market exchange rate is determined. There is only one real solution to preventing the Lira
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1/ Thought experiment: let's say one company invents a miracle machine (the replicator from StarTrek!) that produces every product we can imagine at near zero cost. They keep the machine
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[Thread]Let's take a look at the evidence underpinning the @fmwales decision to ban travel from Covid hotspots other parts of the UK.Mark Drakeford has pointed to three pieces of evidence
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WHY NOT ISHAQ DAR - WHY WE NEED TO STOP WITH OUR FIXATION TO DOLLAR RATE !! the current govt has successfully curbed this excess import and local players are
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A thread on #Lumber and #Timber to hopefully add some context of the larger global market. (I’ll do logs in a separate ) $LBS China is the largest global
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A timeline of @GregHuntMP's cruel crusade against #vaping26.05.17 - House of Reps Health Committee Inquiry into E-cigarette commences.16.10.17 - Hunt tells @triplejHack that vaping is “notgoing to be happening under
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Do you believe in coincidences?Part 1: 3/24/2020“US plant-based meat start-up Nature’s Fynd, backed by Jack Ma, Bill Gates, gets new funding from Al Gore as it targets Chinese market”https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/307
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i skimmed the article and everything looks good excited for summer!https://twitter.com/LCSOfficial/status/1385780845953175554 now having read the whole thing this makes me really excited. i wasn't too familiar with the way academy/amate
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