#STAGFLATION

Stagflation 101The term "stagflation" is used frequently in discussions of monetary policy and risks in the post-COVID world.But what is stagflation and how does it work?Here's Stagflation 101! 1/ Before

Everything I’m seeing says:1) the virus is worse than many people think2) the economic crash is worse than many people thinkIf a government is trying to make decisions, they can’t

Amit Kumar Gupta

Thread on sharp rise of metals (both industrial & base)in the past few months. Most prices are now ruling at multiyear high levels. Jury is out whether this trend is

Jonathan Mergott

The fed wants inflation, but not all inflation is created equal. In 90s, we had a good economy. The middle class was doing well. There were good jobs, technology was

Upon gaining power in 1979, Margaret Thatcher made the defeat of inflation in the UK its number one priority. The 1970s were a difficult time for #Britain inflation-wise, and Meg

Why not stagflation?The 1960s were a sign of endless trust in Keynesian expansion to the extent that Milton Friedman could say of Richard Nixon "everyone is a Keynesian now".The 2010s

Bought this #cookbook 42 years ago. #AnnaThomas #TheVegetarianEpicure #reading #writing #cooking #goodfood. 1/n #AnnaThomas was a young filmmaker who wrote the book to finance a film. @AAKnopf originally published it

Effy, Letting Out A Heaving Sigh Of Relief At Last

One of the broad problems of contemporary left-wing politics is that so much of it is built on a chart that shows a divergence between output and wages that starts

Noah Smith 🐇

Battery prices are falling by double-digit percentages every year. Over the last decade they're down by 87%.This is a technological revolution.https://twitter.com/binarybits/status/1308433358922358784 Everyone thinks about electric cars

Trust you are safe! For a long time, I have been forecasting #DEFLATION. We got that! Today, I want to address, why I think we are about to see a

In past few days I have seen so many shit takes on economy from Miftah Friends, PML N touts and so called financial reporters that I had to write this

Chandra "Smash The Curve" Duggirala M.D

Thoughts on investing in a pandemic: (Disclaimer: Not investment advice, Not medical advice) 1. Popular Narrative: “Look how bad unemployment numbers are. How can the market go up? It is

Noah Smith 🐇

Today's @bopinion post attempts to answer the question: WTF happened in 1971???https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-16/how-1970s-oil-prices-stagflation-changed-the-u-s-economy?sref=R8NfLgwS 2/The question is posed on this

It's the weekend!Grab a cup of coffee, in this thread I will explain1. The relationship between Inflation and Margins2. Why do some companies report margin contraction while others thrive?3. Will

Ollie Richardson

THREAD on the very deep hole the USA finds itself in, & how, if history indeed repeats itself, it will try to get out of it.I was going to write

Roger E. A. Farmer

The number of economic papers on Coronavirus is multiplying almost as quickly as the # of infections. Here is a link to NBER research on the topic. https://www.nber.org/wp_covid19.html and here