#Fiscal

William Stiles

gday_willstiles

The Honourable @Bill_Morneau, Canada’s Minister of Finance:a thread.#cdnpoli • raises income taxes on the wealthiest one percent, in order to cut them for nine million middle-class Canadians. As a result,

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/8Zhang Bin notes that China’s reliance on debt-fueled growth – especially local-government debt – is creating huge systemic risks for the economy and argues that Beijing should rely more on

j.r. ✿ fuck the spd

maples_ravens

i've deprived myself of sleep, food, and mental health for this stupid fucking company. i've worked my ass off for fifteen dollars an hour for two months. i came home

Roger E. A. Farmer

farmerrf

I agree with @ummodern that this is a great piece by @csissoko I also agree with his point about systemic interdependencies. Let me take a stab at expanding on that

David Teel

ByDavidTeel

Before I start writing, some takeaways from a 55-minute interview today with #ACC commissioner John Swofford: (thread) 1. Budgeting handful of scenarios for fiscal 2020-21, but no immediate austerity measures

Lisa Abramowicz

lisaabramowicz1

Investors pulled more than $1 billion yesterday from the biggest junk-bond ETF, BlackRock's $27.8 billion fund that trades as $HYG. It's the biggest daily withdrawal since February, and one of

Dr Alexandra Phelan

alexandraphelan

The mechanism President Trump proposes to use to rescind funding from WHO is not clear. Here are three possible mechanisms.(Whatever form it takes, this is a deeply shortsighted and dangerous

Paul Boothe

pmboothe

Increasingly, commentators are calling on the federal gov’t to publish an Economic and Fiscal Update (EFU) in the absence of a budget. @BillMorneau is resisting, saying that the future path

Vusi Thembekwayo

VusiThembekwayo

Dear Pres #Ramaphosa Nobody wants people to die. Nobody is advocating recklessness. No human life is expendable. But starving people & denying citizens the right to provide for their families

Chris Musson

ChrisMusson

Let the games begin... Scotland's net fiscal balance in 2019-20 (the gap between revenue and spending) including an illustrative share oil revenues, was a deficit of 8.6% of GDP (£15.1

Mark Copelovitch

mcopelov

Great reporting. Awful framing."...officials are growing increasingly wary of the massive federal spending""The concerns about the deficit""...internal concerns about the deficits"It's 2020. People who supported the

New Zealand Labour

nzlabour

(1/4) #ANNOUNCEMENT: The Crown accounts continue to reflect the resilience of the economy and confidence in our economic recovery plan, with the balance $5.2 billion better than forecast by Treasury

Rebecca HarkinsCross

rharcross

i thought i was numb by now, but apparently not. this move against the humanities is so short-sighted and dangerous, and proves just how ideological all the government's recent choices

NITISH KAPOOR

nitishkap

Bear market: A lot of people are trying to compare the current markets with 1929 and 2008 crisis and are trying to predict two things: how low will the bottom

Charles Grant

CER_Grant

How is COVID-19 changing the EU? As far as I can see, most of the big changes are accelerations of trends that were already visible. Take six of them -

Philipp Heimberger

heimbergecon

Dutch prime minister Rutte and other "frugals" continue to use distorted images of Italy and Southern Europe to water down the EU recovery fund. Here are seven ("surprising") facts about