#Deficits

Jim Stanford

JimboStanford

Some thoughts on BC Liberal plan to eliminate PST for 1 year, and cut it by 4 points (57%) after that:The 2020 budget says PST would raise $7.9b this fiscal

(((Frances 'Seriously Unwell' Coppola))) 🌷🌷🌷

Frances_Coppola

I've now read this paper by a "professor of risk management" at the University of Bristol. Some thoughts.https://twitter.com/Lafargue/status/1245829849446408194 He assumes that recession, if sufficiently deep and prolonged, necessarily

Heather Timmons

HeathaT

Art Laffer is being floated as head of a new task force to "reopen" the US economy. He spoke to @annsaphir about what he'd do:https://reut.rs/2JSkJ69 Related: You CAN'T reopen the

Thomas Jackson

delirious_dr

Some thoughts on 4 days seeing lots of recovering COVID-19 if I may be indulged. TBH its been really hardFirstly, remember this is a biased view - the majority of

Waye Mason

WayeMason

I want to unpack this a bit - Both @nsfedmuni & @FCM_online as well as @hfxgov staff, Mayor, myself have been working since March to obtain Fed and Provincial funding

John M. Talmadge, MD

JohnMTalmadgeMD

(1) #Presidementia 04/23 Press Briefing: Q&A starts at 6:15 pm with Trump using the same strategies I've been describing to compensate for his cognitive deficits. "We'll look into it, but

Brad Setser

Brad_Setser

False analogy. Asian pegs collapsed back in 1997 because external short-term fx debts exceeded reserves, not because of high m2 to reserves.I (literally) wrote a book about itChinese fx

Josh Barro

jbarro

I've been thinking more about the president's still-pretty-strong poll numbers on the economy, and they make even more sense to me than they did already just from the usual observation

Le Doc

Le___Doc

Aujourd'hui j'ai appris une nouvelle terrible, la perte de deux amis. L'un était chirurgien disgestif, l'autre anesthesiste. Ils sont décédés brutalement d'une réinhalation de CO2 associés à une infection généra

Mark Mac Lean

marktmaclean

Universities in Canada have benefited from increased international student enrolment. The financial benefits of students paying high tuitions are obvious, but we should not underestimate the value of the intellectual,

Stephen Gordon

stephenfgordon

The fun thing about MMT 'research' is that there is no there there. There is no stripped-down model to illustrate the basic point of whatever they're trying to say. If

Jon Hartley

Jon_Hartley_

1: A THREAD on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and my new @NationalAffairs article which attempts to outline many of the major empirical flaws of MMT.https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-weakness-of-modern-monetary-theory 2: Aft

Kevin Rudd

MrKRudd

So I see we’re having a debate about future economic directions… Here are a few points for #ScottyFromMarketing to reflect on… Thread Early this year Cormann, Morrison’s Finance Minister, attacked

Jared Kolb

JaredKolb

1/ Historic moment for cycling in Toronto: City Council votes 23-2 to build protected bike lanes from Bloor and Runnymede to Danforth and Dawes, as well as along University, Dundas,

Gimba Kakanda

gimbakakanda

Saudi Arabia isn’t the model for practising Islam, but if there’s a country that should defy #COVID19 and resume religious activities, it’s the kingdom. And this isn’t just because the

Erynn Brook

ErynnBrook

Let’s talk about ADHD and sleep!Cause if you talk about ADHD at all, eventually someone is going to pop up and say something about sleep. But we’ll get into that