#Economic

A lot of conversation on RW as PM and what it means politically, but a quick thread on what I think a GR-Prez/RW-PM led (mostly) SLPP government means economically#EconomicCrisisLK #SriLankaEconomicCrisis
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On behalf of everyone who has been reliant on free school dinners: those of you saying it's not the government's job to feed disadvantaged children have no idea the huge
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This thread is worth attention. But it's pretty obvious by now that the US is unready to do any one of the below seven things, never mind all of them.
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Spent the majority of my life excited for VT & college football as whole. I can’t get excited about the season, currently. A weird mix of dread, curiosity, & misplaced
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Quick little /flow chart on my view of our current economic conundrum re: massive asset inflation and economic fragility that the US is experiencing:Pre-covid we already had an overvalued stock
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This would be a good time to start screenshotting the more hysterical - and more public shaming - tweets from Team Apocalypse. Because they will vanish. Also anything making light
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It's actually pretty easy to explain. When the Midwest was establishment it was the hub of finance, production, organized crime, it had it all. The Midwest was established in every
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There is a *lot* of this sort of thing going on right now: explicit state direction of industry, commandeering of production and outright nationalization.https://www.vox.com/2020/4/3/21207310/coronavirus-new-york-hospitals-andrew-cuomo In many if n
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Yesterday the NY Ct of Appeals (NY's highest court) ruled he retroactive application of part of a rent control law violated substantive due process.Extremely rare win for economic liberty in
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By the end of 2016 six Iron Range taconite plants had reopened or announced plans to do so. Today only five are open, with no word on KeeTac. 1/ Nothing
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Your boyfriend is on the TL asking for someone to explain the economic implications of the oil price crash to him. That’s your man and you love him though Indoda
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#Niagara Constituent Question ~ What resources are available to self-employed individuals at this time who are not eligible for EI? The Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) will provide $2,000 a
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Sundance analysis: As Anticipated – The economic freedom and liberty zone will encompass the Red region. The center of the country, mid west, southern region (surrounding the Gulf of Mexico) and
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.@NellFrizzell should read our #SimonAbundanceIndex. Children do not strain the world's resources. In fact, the opposite is true: each new child is correlated with an increase in resource abundance.https://www.humanprogress.org/the-simo
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1/2 Could this be the start of political pressure to halt work on #HS2 because of the #Economic consequences of #Covid_19 crisis as #JohSpellarMP raises questions? :#ExpressandStar " Ministers urged
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The aave discourse is making me fucking insane. Obviously we have to be aware of the ways that things like cultural appropriation take shape in our lives but cultural appropriation
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