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Paul Krugman
paulkrugman
Moody's Analytics — not a partisan organization — says that the economy will be much stronger if Biden wins than if Trump hangs on. What's interesting, and a bit bittersweet
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Haris Gazdar
HarisGazdar
There is no trade-off between saving lives and saving livelihoods and economic growth. The impact of a pandemic on the economy is thought to work through several pathways - and
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Onur Özgöde
ummodern
In the middle of a depression in 1920, NY Fed and a few other Reserve Banks raised interest rates. To us it looks like a policy error, because macroeconomic theory
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Nathan Tankus
NathanTankus
Poverty is not a"lack of money".This is an oversimplification which is dangerous when it comes to macroeconomic poverty response programs.Poverty is deprivation.Deprivation does come from lack of access to individual
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Stephanie Ruhle
SRuhle
THREAD: It's time for another fact check. We're going to dig a little deeper into President Trump's messaging yesterday, where he essentially started tweeting: "Your 401k will be gone without
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George Selgin
GeorgeSelgin
.@NathanTankus poses a challenge. My perhaps naive reply is that the Fed is not "our central macroeconomic administrative agency." 1/https://twitter.com/Frank_vanlerven/status/1300811220426125313 The Fed's responsibilities are
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David Glasner
david_glasner
(Thread) Here's an outline of an unwritten paper developing some ideas from my paper “Hayek Hicks Radner and Four Equilibrium Concepts" and some from previous blog posts, in particular Phillips
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Claudia Sahm
Claudia_Sahm
WTF?! ... fire these economic advisershttps://twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1246926478870224897 only one those is in *Recession Ready* from @hamiltonproj @equitablegrowth infrastructure could be useful now if in public health, information technology
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Michael Pettis
michaelxpettis
1/7Very interesting piece on the gradual and imperfect transition (“GDP adoption in China was an experimental – and ultimately unsuccessful – process of translation”) in China from the Soviet-invented Material
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Taylor Pearson
TaylorPearsonMe
1/ If you cannot draw me a picture of a can opener, I will not listen to your macroeconomic predictions. 2/ I love the phrase "Reality has a surprising amount
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Maximilian Mayer
mayer_iras
Cruel moment: 10 Mio confirmed infections, 500k people died from #Covid_19. East Asian countries leading in containment/suppression by a large margin. Death toll in Mainland China (4,634), South Korea (282),
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Tony Yates
t0nyyates
Without some institutional encouragement, the BoE are going to feel caught between a rock and a hard place in identifying missing macroeconomic stimulus. The rock is that if they don't
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Aaron Sojourner
aaronsojourner
The president inherited strong job-growth trends, coasted off it, and tried to take credit for it.His talking points do not match reality.#NoFool Same story with the unemployment rate. This chicken
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Chris Hughes
chrishughes
1/ I have a new piece out today in @TIME about the moment we’re witnessing — a departure from free-market orthodoxy, and the realization that the market depends on the
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Tyrone876
Tyrone876
Unpopular opinion:Population-wide coverage of UNREGULATED electricity cost usage is FAIR. It is a form of corporate applied social security tax. People who connect to the national electricity grid without permission
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Jakob Steffen
JayJaySteffen
Absolutely intriguing @CESifoGroup working paper no 8210 by @AtifRMian, @ludwigstraub and @profsufi on the detrimental effects of ever more indebted households, resulting in a #debt trap where HH reduce their
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