#Deficits

Jeff, who pays over $750 in taxes every year

NewJeffCT

THREAD – Before his colossal failures with COVID-19, Donny Trump used to brag about the economy & much of the media went along for the ride. However, was the economy

Lucid

Lucid_TA

Macro Mega-Thread!Here’s the state of play as I see it.COVID-19 fallout will exert very strong deflationary pressures on both asset prices and the economy.We will see extreme and escalating interventions

AS4SANinc

AS4SANinc

Artifacts or not? Today’s thread will be talking about some of the unexpected findings in patients with neurological disorders, in which the #cerebellum was believed to be unaffected until recently.

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

I did a talk in the excellent @MarkusEconomist Academy series yesterday on “Do Debt and Deficits Matter Anymore.” You can watch the video, see the slides, or read this longish

Tim Pitt

TimPitt11

Parts of the left seem desperate to turn the debate about the appropriate economic response to Covid into a rerun of the debate from the last decade over public spending.

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

Time for a pulp countdown now, and today it's my top 10 British tabs! Smoke 'em if you got 'em... #SaturdayThoughts At #10: John Player Superkings! A night at the

Mark B. Spiegel

markbspiegel

1) So here's how I now think stocks & bonds will unravel. (NOTE: THIS FORECAST IS WORTH WHAT TWITTER IS CHARGING YOU FOR IT!)Core CPI now = 2.3% and I

David Roberts

drvolts

The new House stimulus bill omits arguably the single most important feature -- automatic stabilizers -- for UTTERLY FUCKING STUPID POLITICAL REASONS AAAAARGH^$*!! Ahem. An important & infuriating post

Nelson Flores

nelsonlflores

I have gotten some new followers since my last thread about BICS and CALP so I am going to do one again. Apologies to those who have heard it before

The Autisticats - #StopTheShock

autisticats

I’ve been thinking about how mainstream “autism advocacy” groups operate differently than organizations like the United Spinal Association. Autism Speaks et al. rely on fear and search for “causes &

John David Dyche

jddyche

Sometimes I get asked about @senatemajldr McConnell. He of course realizes that Trump is a hideous human being & utterly unfit to be president. MM was willing to do business

Corey M. Gallagher

_SunshineRising

Ezra is missing the point of how we got to Trump. He errs in evaluating the GOP because he wants to find good in people.The truth is, Trump won, and

Stephanie Kelton

StephanieKelton

THREADWhat Bailey fails to understand is that what he is calling "printing money" is not more inflationary than running bond sales the way we do now. In fact, the opposite

Chris Armstrong

ckarmstrong

Some people actually think a shift to #MMT will bring about a great economic restructuring to the public's benefit, by freeing it from self-imposed austerity and better distributing wealth by

NortherlyRose #AncientAutistic

NortherlyRose

I can’t find any official confirmation #Dominicummimgs’ son is #autistic but there are lots of tweets saying:‘The medical issues Boris didnt want to discuss is that Cummings' child has autism,

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧Edward Thomas Black

edglasgow59

1/Is it worth England bring part of the UK?Really. Is it worth it?The Scots, to a lesser degree Welsh, and lesser again, N Irish complain endlessly about EnglandIt’s partly due