#Economics

Covid-19 IFR is *NOT* 0.13% (THREAD)There's a lot of confusion and some downright appalling falsehoods in the heated debate about Covid-19. One particular point around which the "let the virus
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This article needs some context. Good thing I’m prepared to offer some.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-trumpism-wont-happen-in-canada-but-not-because-of-our-politics/ WOW! I’m stunned by the hubris and ignorance of this
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I hear people say "right and left" are no longer coherent concepts. This is wrong but I see the temptation. The right lost bigly and no one wants to be
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Top 30 Most popular Movies of 2021 so far ( Rated 18+ ) [A Thread] Make sure you like and retweet. Please note that this thread will be updated as
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The most existential question in crypto: what will be the relationship between tokens and communities?At stake: can DAOs bring virtue back to scaled organization? Or will they accelerate the economics-only
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THREAD: So, this is an interesting object lesson on a number of things going on in conventional ag...https://twitter.com/Agronomyjay/status/1210608359352741888 First of all, it quietly sets a stage that people outside of
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on startup 'valuations'.Why are loss-making startups run by 20-somethings 'valued' as unicorns while similar profit-making companies are valued at half that?Thread below has the dope, but the longer read is
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Should you invest in the Wint Wealth ‘Covered Bond’ product offering 10.25% for 23 months? This is something that a lot of you’ll have asked me to write on &
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Russians are masters of disinformation. Don’t fall for their lies on social mediahttps://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article246096855.html “The goal is to manipulate and divide humans because it sells. “We just provide a space f
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The Netflix series “The Family” is a good start to understand the underlying fundamentalist & religious extremism behind modern geo-politics. But it only gives an overview of the Dominionist belief
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1/ The first nuclear power plant in the Arab world began commercial operations in UAE last week. Our firm acted as financial advisor to the lenders for this groundbreaking $25+bn
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There's a lot of shit flying around Brit politics Twitter this morning featuring members of the cabinet patently unable to decide on whether or note *all votes* should be counted
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CM Lewis is saying that since the Mayor will not spend the money appropriated for COVID relief, the City Council should try for a week and a half to come
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Reading about thinkers like Olympe de Gouges makes me wonder whether someone committed to the moral intuitions prevalent today really needs to invoke a mysterious notion of 'moral progress' -
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introducing myselfhttps://twitter.com/acidshill/status/1253720568408338432 i’m also going to provide some more useful information. i think @gwern is probably right that psychometrics conveys more information than generic life history/favo
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This is an incredibly common argument from right-libertarians: asserting a positive right to basic needs, like housing, as an intolerable intrusion on someone else’s liberty. Let’s unpack.1/https://twitter.com/dapf/status/13675472488470
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