#Economists

ProPublica

propublica

1/ Once you accept that climate change is *already* making large parts of the United States nearly uninhabitable, the future looks like this: With time, the bottom half of the

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Recently, I’ve come to think we are quite LUCKY, in fact, with COVID-19 – because, although it’s quite transmissible, it could indeed have been much deadlier. There's no reason it

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Mob minds could do with some psychological distancing. I’ve pondered the Thielean anti-democratic turn for a few years now. Trump’s victory in 2016 struck me as both the most democratic

nxthompson

nxthompson

Today in #coronavirus news: UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute is among the labs stepping in to fill the still-massive Covid-19 testing void. The Crispr lab is using its own funds

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadEven though this is a fake account, I'll give you the glaringly obvious explanation for why deaths are down.But you need to remember that Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit has

Blas

BlasMoros

@deewhock is a living legend who founded one of the greatest exchanges of value in history, @VISA. I wanted to share what I thought were some of his key ideas

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

Let's be clear: what @MarkMeadows @SWAtlasHoover @PeterNavarro45 @HHS_ASH have done has NO support from those with expertise in infectious diseases, such as the Infectious Diseases Society of America--the group representing

Joe Mayes

Joe_Mayes

Welcome to the bright side of Brexit. We know disruption is looming, but there are opportunities... 1/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-29/how-leaving-the-eu-could-help-britain-s-economy?sref=yMmXm5Iy w/ @DeirdreHipwell @lucy

Greg “Big Ed” Meeker

yomeeks

This is your daily pension announcement. The Pension War Room declares it Licia Corbella day! She is being paid to offer her opinion, which I have no quarrel with. However,

peeleraja

peeleraja

Unpopular opinion.Everybody should study engineering before going on to their true calling - law, medicine, policy or blockchain.Instead of 12y compulsory education upto 12th, it should be 16y upto BTech.Let

Antoine de Cabanes

AdeCabanes

The European Central Bank is facing pressure from civil society to act on climate change. The pressure intensifies since the new President of #ECB, Christine #Lagarde, called for a review

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

The US has reached a terrible milestone of 100,000 lives lost to COVID19. It’s important to stop to think about how this disease has hurt the country, and to focus

David Rodenhiser

drodenhi1

My #thread summary of this new paper: ‘Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review’ @Ldnontmayor @st3v3turn3r @ElizabethPeloza @MohamedMOSalih @shawnwlewis @jesse_helmer @MaureenPCassidy @JoshMorganLDN @AnnaHopkins11 @ArielkeK @Heal

Bansi Sharma

bansisharma

1. The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions -- Philadelphia Edition!Nearly two years ago, Philadelphia passed a "soda tax" -- a hefty 1.5 cents per ounce or $1

(((Amir Pars)))

AmirPars_

THREADI will lose many friends over what I'm about to say.I will possibly be called a racist or even a white supremacist (even though I'm a brown man, who's been

Zeke Hausfather

hausfath

In a new analysis, we find there are now 32 countries that have absolutely decoupled economic growth from CO2 since 2005. In these places both territorial emissions and consumption emissions