#Consumers

We’re pleased to announce a podcast on Reviving Growth Keynesianism! We’re starting it off with a double header: an introductory episode followed immediately by an interview with @NicholsUprising. In our
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Lessons from different fields:1) Advertising: We overestimate our capacity for independent thought.2) Poker: Life is probabilistic. We can do everything right and still lose.3) Architecture: We're influenced by our environment,
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The Peloton treadmill is hurting children.Peloton is breaking the law and lying to the public.Time from a thread The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall of Peloton's treadmill after
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Quick thread about carbon taxes, climate change, taxes and you. Let's begin... The free market solution to carbon emissions is to work out the cost of external damages caused by
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ThreadWent to the boards last night to do some research, when that Q Dude started dropping posts from people all around the world showing support and unity. Things were flying
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Thanks @nyanncath for the rec! I’m starting on Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China by Wu Cuncun, a native scholar. It’s about Beijing opera culture in Qing, which was said
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5 WAYS TO SUPPORT GARMENT WORKERS IN CRISISBuilding a more equitable fashion industry calls for us to look beyond brand boycotts and see ourselves as global citizens, not consumers. Here
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http://read.medium.com/kDWgLTz  Around the world, in countries afflicted with the coronavirus, stores are sold out of toilet paper. And we all know who to blame: hoarders and panic-buyers, right?Well, not so
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I’m seeing this rising Stan conversation on how charts destroyed music. I beg to differ, but in 2018 a wave for NUMBER FULLY SETTLED IN. Because numbers was promoted like
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THREAD: Highlights from our latest BOOKS @ LUX with investor, author, and friend of Lux ⁦@guyperelmuter⁩. Insights on the history, future, and purpose of technology. 1/ Technological advances appear effortless,
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There's a SpaceLink missile shootdown exercise (ritual) this week.Today is 19 days after 3/22.The sacrifice needs a city for the innocent lamb. Possibly a Wuhan-style EMF/RF poisoning aka high-altitude sickness.
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HOW ARE THE BANKS SCREWING YOU OVER FROM TAKING THE MORATORIUM (AND TAKE CREDITS FROM IT)We all have heard about how banks like to screw over people, today I am
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Given the ongoing @WeWork fallout, it's worth revisiting our note that explored why someone would ever dream it possible to build a trillion-dollar technology behemoth.What makes a founder think he can tame
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1) Portfolio summary - June-end$ADYEY $AYX $COUP $CRWD $DDOG $DOCU $ETSY $LVGO $MELI $NOW $OKTA $PINS $ROKU $SE $SHOP $SQ $TTD $TWLO $VRM $WORK http://9923.HK Return since 1 Sept '16 -
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Trump was just nominated, makes a visit to the convention...And immediately starts whining that states are sending out mail ballots.Also complains that Obama's FBI conducted a counterintelligence investigation into the
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Electricity grids are like the delivery to the pizza during lockdown. You want the pizza, but the delivery is key! While you can see/talk to the delivery guy/girl, you don’t
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