#Economists

Milo M.

Ex67T20

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1743-perjury-overview-18-usc-1621-and-1623-violationsBecause 18 USC 1621, “Perjury,” is still a thing, the topic of today’s thread is the nomination of Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Osman Siddiqi

OsmSiddiqi

Story: Several applicants from #Nairobi for a job I'm hiring for knew more in econometrics than me (not that I'm a maestro), a former TA at HKS, our textbook (judging

Stephen Ou

stephenou

Just finished The Psychology of Money from @morganhouselA thread of the best takeaways Your personal experiences with money make up maybe 0.000000001% of what's happened in the world, but

John Pfaff

JohnFPfaff

It's hard to care right now for a lot of reasons, but:The 2019 Uniform Crime Reports just posted.The takeaway:• Murder up baaaarely--by 0.3% (51 cases)• Rape (-3%) and robbery (-5%)

Michael R. Strain

MichaelRStrain

THREAD. Don't obsess about the shocking April jobs report. It just means that pandemic recovery has a long way to go. The labor market is weak, not tight. Expect millions

Omar Wasow

owasow

If folks want to drive in same direction as other traffic on public roads, they are free to do so. Those who don’t want to drive in the same direction

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/In today's @bopinion post, I explain why, contrary to popular belief, lockdowns did NOT cause the economic devastation in the U.S. -- and what this implies for future lockdowns.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-18/fea

Untold Stories Retold

retoldstories

*THREAD*"Women and children first" Despite chivalry on board the #Titanic , men fare better than women in nearly all other maritime disastersAnd it wasn't even on board the Titanic that

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Economists of every stripe, from Marx to Milton Friedman, have a consensus on the nature of land: "Land is a natural commons — it belongs to everyone, and that land

J.

PresentWitness_

Meta-economics (thread) A bailout for debtors is an anti-bailout for savers. 'Globalism' is the result of a collaborative corporate strategy to reduce international trade barriers and corporate taxes. Populist movements

Marco Pangallo

mrcpangallo

Really proud of our new paper! https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/files/Pichler-Pangallo-del-Rio-Chanona-Lafond-Farmer-Production-networks-and-epidemic-spreading-how-to-restart-the-UK-economy.pdfWe design a brand-new economic model to capture the co

The Epoch Times

EpochTimes

INFOGRAPHICPresident Biden’s ambitious #Infrastructure plan includes a varied package of initiatives, from traditional projects like roads and bridges to #Climate initiatives and programs outside the traditional infrastructure scope. (Thr

Rakhi Pancholi, MLA

pancholi_rakhi

Today @jkenney will unveil his economic recovery plan. When assessing it, consider the info below to see whether this plan is designed for ALL Albertans or whether it's designed to

Matt Clancy

mattsclancy

US GDP per capita growth averaged 2.25%/yr in the back half of the 20th century, but only 1% so far in the the 21st century. Is this evidence of recent

George Selgin

GeorgeSelgin

Thread: In the paper he presented @BrookingsEcon back in August, the Bank of England's Andrew Bailey perpetuates myths about the role regulations play in achieving a uniform nationwide currency: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/b

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Bihar_ke_lala

Tiktok videos glamorizing dua over dawa. Attack on health workers. People wiping snot on notes. Urinating. Hiding travel history. Spitting. These are some ills that are on display in trying