#Economic

ICRC at the UN in NY 🗽

ICRC_NYC

"The #MiddleEast is today facing the twin threats of potential mass virus outbreaks in conflict zones and looming socio-economic upheaval. Both crises could have severe humanitarian consequences." - @FCarboniICRC #COVID19

Blair Nathan

Blair_A_Nathan

You know what’s a bit of a whitepill?It often seems like the people work for the economy and not the other way around—that liberal capitalism is just a freight train

Chris Becker

jcbecker93

Thread: It blows my mind that Gary Becker’s Nobel-prize winning accomplishments include arguing that racial discrimination could be effectively reduced by market competition. In 1957. Three years after Brown v.

Patriotic American, Not Sorry

TakeoutDS

People are noticing the facts pointing directly at #Democrats being behind #Coronavirus. Hard to ignore this listThread 1/9 1/12 #Pelosi issues one way or another threat1/15 Delivers Articles to senate

Jonathan Cheng

JChengWSJ

The coronavirus hasn’t stopped the world’s biggest asset bubble from getting bigger. In March, 288 apartments in a new Shenzhen development sold out in eight minutes. Important story on China's

Michael Story ⚓

MWStory

There's a good essay in the psychological/social condition (rather than just the direct economic position) of smart upper middle class young adults, and why Altman observed founders disproportionately coming from

Ryan "Two Pfizer Shots and Covid Immune" Ellis

RyanLEllis

President @JoeBiden is out this morning with a monster list of tax increases. Here they are in a thread for your convenience. 1/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/28/fact-sheet-the-american-families-plan/ T

Eric L. Robinson

UticaEric

The president’s “suckers” and “losers” commentary has me thinking. From a purely economic standpoint, am I a sucker for joining the Army? Was it a bad bet? Some back-of the

Tommy Miller

tmilly15

To go back to Germany’s response to the pandemic, from what I experienced while I was there, the country’s original response was actually quite similar to the US’ original response.

KVSarmaJ

kvsarmaj

Unpopular opinion.I see folks crying day in and day out about evangelism. Believe me, I have seen very bad effects of evangelism coming from a place where evangelism is rampant

Armine Yalnizyan

ArmineYalnizyan

Here are some of the things I've written about the UBI/"cut 'em a cheque" approach.1998: The Growing Gap, pp. 101-104 https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/growing-gap-report2016: Basic incomes vs basic services htt

Roberto Azevêdo

WTODGAZEVEDO

The WTO today issued its trade forecast for 2020. Our economists foresee a steep decline in global trade in 2020 in all regions and sectors, as the #COVID19 pandemic upends

Andy Schwarz

andyhre

Apparently, everyone thinks I should speak to whether Stanford cutting sports makes economic sense or not.Stanford is not int he category of the schools I normally assess, like AKron, with

Tuomas Malinen

mtmalinen

I think that the main problem is that no one has explained to people that downturns and recessions are mandatory.We economists have made a massive disservice by narrowly concentrating on

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

An extraordinary shift, and credit where it's due.BUT: the great unsayable, that the BBC won't allow anyone to voice on air, is that the driver of planetary destruction is not

Bill McBride

calculatedrisk

Imagine the US locked down on March 1st as many experts were recommending at the time. Instead of deaths peaking at 2,000 per day, deaths would have probably peaked at