#Rates

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Can we get real here? There's no evidence that the GOP base cares about deficits or excess spending per se. The Tea Party wasn't a rebellion against deficits — it

PriyankaPulla

PriyankaPulla

Let me explain why I am still furious at the people who are tom-tomming the lockdown's success earlier..anybody who thought this *wouldn't* happen at Sion Hospital doesn't know what they

Jacob Pringle

OilAcumen

#COVID19 Deaths Per Million is a misleading statistic. In Canada, 77% of deaths are in nursing homes. Using deaths/million makes it seem like the deaths are as a portion of

Tony Weston

tonywestonuk

For once I am not going to talk about MMT.I am going to talk about *mainstream* neoclassical economics. We are told Tax's fund spending, and any spending above taxation is

Karam Bales

karamballes

#edutwitter1/ A thread on Containment and a look at local outbreak planningLeads on from discussions in Pandemic podcast for Educators No.1DfE guidence, Containment Framework and saftey in schoolsCatch up fundingCollectiving

Monika Halan

monikahalan

Thread on what the @RBI just did and what it means...Rs 50,000 crore window of funds for mutual funds RBI says that there is liquidity stress in the mutual fund

hilzoy

hilzoy

1/ Very good piece on what comes next. I want to underscore one point.Josh Marshall: Getting Down to Planning the Next Year and the Interim New Normal https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/getting-down-to-planning-the-next-year-and-the-interim-new-nor

Precious Fehyntoluwa

Preciousfehyn

This is the summary of UK nurses Salary. Follow the thread. Salary strictly depends on what you do, what band you are, where you work, who you work with and

Laura E. Adkins

Laura_E_Adkins

The most wild thing about the @Sethrogen controversy, to me, is not that his remarks were stripped of context or that everyone's jumping to make his words fit their own

Charlie Robertson

RencapMan

Like many, we've modelled potential deaths per country using two different case fatality rates (Hubei vs ex-Hubei) and then reversed the model to see what it implies about how many

RIP BREONNA TAYLOR

tyrathetaurus

“let’s boycott amazon because we hate the rich” YES“let’s boycott Chick-fil-A because they’re homophobic” YES“let’s boycott fast fashion because sweatshops” YES“let’s boycott the meat & dairy industry because—

Andrew Flood 👨🏻‍💻📝🕺

andrewflood

Thread on how lethal Covid is using available evidence rather than modelling guesses. One place to start is population fatality rates in hard hit city districts eg in New York

Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸

wagatwe

It's ableist to associate sexual harassment with mental illness. And it's particularly disgusting to bring it up in the context of defending the harasser. Ableism causes disabled people to be

David Wyatt: Crisis Actors Guild

davidmwyatt

1/ IMPORTANT: I've been pitching this "crisis within a crisis" for 3 weeks and the response is encouraging. Essentially, there's a crisis within a crisis with #NativeAmerican #DomesticViolence survivors right

Chester BTC

cheetahgains

Since lockdowns began, there have been higher and higher expectations of inflation from financial communities. However, as time goes on DEFLATION becomes more and more likely. Time for a thread

Trent “Tate” Steidley

socsteidley

Looking at the NICS data from March and April, there is an interesting trend going on... A thread... 1/7 (2/7) I often argue politics matters for gun sales more than