#Recession

Kris MC

3LeggedCat70

Elections and "enthusiasm:" a thread. 1988. Candidate: Michael Dukakis.Did I vote for him in the primary? No. I voted for Gore. Did I have anything against Dukakis? Also no. Dukakis

Charles Edwards

caprioleio

Hash Ribbon BuyThe Bitcoin Buy signal which occurs about once a year just fired.Note: The halving is just 2 weeks away. Expect another signal within the next 3 months, like

Diane Lim

economistmom

Updated charts still to come, but bottom line from August @BLS_gov data: #AsianWomen continue to suffer the largest increase in #unemployment of *all* race/gender categories; the rate was 3.0% in

Ned Nikolov, Ph.D.

NikolovScience

Did you know that, in 2019, WHO published a report on the effectiveness of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing & travel restrictions in fighting pandemics (https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329438/9789

Subhadip Nandy

SubhadipNandy

People think 2008 was such a bear market that one had to just sell and sit tight and one would have made money. Nothing could be further from the truth.See

Chye-Ching Huang

dashching

BIG THREAD: the fiscal policy response to the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 should match the extraordinary human hardship & economic need – not arbitrary dollar comparisons to stimulus in

Neal Morton

nealtmorton

Pay attention, Washington: "What's so stunning about this recession is that poor districts are going to bear the brunt of these cuts because they rely so heavily on state aid

Fintan Walsh

FintanYTWalsh

After the recession, my family split up and moved to different parts of the world. It was just me and Mam to deal with handing over the keys to our

Sooz #wearyourmask 🐝

sooz303

Instead of losing brain cells listening to the RNC, I spent the evening giving public comment at @CityofThornton council Our involvement matters. Today we got it it on record that

balajis.com

balajis

The numbers are off the chart because this isn’t a recession or depression. This is more like the first successful invasion of America, by a virus.Things break in wartime that

Piper Perabo Vote Early

PiperPerabo

It’s this simple.If we let Trump to starve and kill the Postal Service, there will be no fair election and he will steal four more years.Now’s the time to dig

Brian Asquith

basquith827

Got a new brief out today talking about what we can learn about the 1918 pandemic. Check it out: https://research.upjohn.org/up_policypapers/22/A short, 900 word version is going to circulate later, but

Gabriel Mathy

gabriel_mathy

My view of Keynes's vision of the economy in the General theory is that one person's income is another person's spending and one's spending is another's income. That means that

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Deep breath. In the last five weeks, more than 24 million workers applied for unemployment insurance. That is more than one in seven workers. 1/ All else equal, job losses

Live Monitor

amlivemon

There are two paths here for Trump which takes careful political calculations.1. Fight on into the courtsOr2. Concede and Declare the election rigged to come storming back in 2024.America is

Victoria Guida

vtg2

Okay, so I’ve got some #FedContent for you all this morning... The Fed unveiled emergency programs that could dole out more than $2 trillion in loans to businesses of all