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Chxta
Chxta
Upon gaining power in 1979, Margaret Thatcher made the defeat of inflation in the UK its number one priority. The 1970s were a difficult time for #Britain inflation-wise, and Meg
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Jim Stanford
JimboStanford
THREAD: Today's Retirement Income report has a long discussion about whether changes in the super guarantee are automatically passed through in offsetting change in wages. Here's the graph the report
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Digitally Native
digitallynativ
Vertical Capitalism:The shifts towards WFH has brought back into focus a concept that I've been working on.Much like the manner in which niche DTC brands attacked incumbents, vertical capitalists will
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Anton Muscatelli
UofGVC
A short thread on exciting recent research by my colleague Sayantan Ghosal @UofGAsbs @UofGlasgow featured as part of the @ESRC 'Rebuilding Macroeconomics' project. It deals with anxiety in markets and
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Zachary D. Carter
zachdcarter
I want to come back to this today because I think it reveals something important about the state of the Democratic Party and progressive ideas.https://twitter.com/zachdcarter/status/1253662315863474176 In one sense, Powell giving
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Bank of Jamaica
CentralBankJA
This is a highlighted graphical summary (zoom, zoom!) of the recently published 2019 BOJ Financial Stability Report. For the full, albeit slightly less sexy report itself, click here: https://bit.ly/3bTwQvp #BOJSpeaks
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Onur Özgöde
ummodern
Why do we have an econ indicator such as GDP? Most assume GNP, GDP's predecessor, was invented to measure economic growth.My new paper, Institutionalism in Action, shows it was constructed
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Michael Goodwell
MichaelGoodwell
Turkey CB and Hungary CB unexpectedly hiking rates. Incoming EM crisis?$USDTRY $USDHUF Interestingly, both Turkey and Hungary attributed the increase in rates to an effort to prevent a rise in
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Adam Ozimek
ModeledBehavior
I want to add a few more points here around this question: why the heck am I talking about this? There are two pieces of modern economic history that have
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András Bíró-Nagy
BiroNagyAndras
Ten years ago, on this day Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party won the elections after two terms in opposition. What followed is well documented. Here is a thread below about how
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Ricardo Reis
R2Rsquared
*** What is automatic about the automatic stabilizers?The discussion on the US extending the extra $600 in unemployment benefits has been couched in terms of automatic stabilizers. But if Congress
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Matthew Cochrane
Matt_Cochrane7
1/ I believe one of the most undervalued assets on Wall Street is Alphabet's YouTube. Let's discuss. Long $GOOGL $GOOG 2/In 2019, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced the video content
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David Roberts
drvolts
All right: A THREAD. A long thread. I had a thought I wanted to add to this piece, but it was a bit of a wonky diversion, so I left
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New River Investments Inc.
NewRiverInvest
You know what is weird? that the layoffs and shelter-in-place stuff is not showing up in wage and salary withholding yet. The 2019 gov shutdown only took ~5 days to
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brixnmortar
brixnmortar1
MOBLE HOME PARKS(MHP = mobile home park ; MH = mobile home)Born in the Great Depression; absorbing war-workers in the 40’s; increasingly solidifying in the following decades: MHP are a
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Ted Nordhaus
TedNordhaus
1. Against claims that a wave of public concern about climate change is cresting, public opinion about climate change has been largely unchanged over 20 years. What has changed is
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