#Austerity

Paul Kelland

paulk_1986

Almost 1 year ago, Jacinda Ardern abandoned campaigning on a Capital Gains Tax ever again as Labour leader, stating that they had campaigned hard on it for 3 elections but

Kerry-Anne Mendoza

TheMendozaWoman

THREAD on Boris Johnson in intensive care:We have such a strange culture here. Many of us spent the last decade asking people to care that nurses, doctors, delivery workers, retail

John Warner

biblioracle

Every public institution that has taken the time to broadcast their U.S. News ranking for this year is demonstrating that they do not understand what is actually happening right now.

NivenR_VRU

DirectorVRU

A wee thread of thoughts this morning....numerous academic studies have shown the link between poverty and violence. We know our more deprived communities experience more violence - in Scotland less

Karl Pritchard

KarlPritch86

So today I found out my pay was going to be frozen for a year, possibly 2 or 3 and I must admit from a completely selfish Point of view

Rob Murray-Leach

rmurrayleach

Live tweeting from @iea #energyefficiency conference.Exciting to see people who understand that how energy is used is just as critical as how it is generated President of Georgia @Zourabichvili_S talks

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

I missed this, from Adam Posen, about how we should stop thinking of Japan as a cautionary tale and learn lessons from its successes. Completely agree 1/https://www.ft.com/content/f478f51f-2900-4558-bf0f-d224453e88bf Back in the

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

Sorry, I'm not deleting the tweet. I stand by it. And I'm going to explain precisely why.For the last 10 years, Britain has suffered continually under a government which has

Paul Constant

paulconstant

Seattle's Worst City Councilmember™ is at it again in a Seattle Times editorial. This time Alex Pedersen paired up with the chief economist for Windermere Real Estate to argue that

Michael Murphy

__michaelmurphy

1/13. Is #EmergencyeLearning a case of securitization?My #WIISTOTC presentation has 4 sections: key justifications for emergency eLearning, content analysis of 90 E-eL declarations, application of securitization theory, and concluding thoughts

Diarmuid O'Flynn

ballyhea14

1.The same Q could be asked anywhere - how many are dying in their own homes from this curse, untested? How many dying alone, untested? How many dying in other

Max Bergmann

maxbergmann

The biggest geopolitical impact of corona c/d be in Europe. The fight over coronabonds is about the EU getting its act together. Word of a compromise was met w/ cheers.

Barrister's Horse

BarristersHorse

THREAD:HE'S BEHIND EU 1. I may of course be wrong on this, but I don't think so. The EU is heading into another 'existential crisis' as they like to call

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

This paper by Guerrieri et al is impressively fast work, similar in spirit to what I've been thinking but going much further while also crossing the eyes and dotting the

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

We need to be honest about just how screwed up this country is and how its institutions are in maddening crises.We need to talk about things like higher education, college

rollin hu

rollrhu

i haven't tweeted about Johns Hopkins in a while but given its announcement of austerity measures + layoffs, i pulled up a bunch of documents I had on the financial