#Recession

Seth Miller

WandrMe

The @IATA #COVID19 briefing for 14 April 2020 is now kicking off. Three weeks ago IATA had estimates of $252bn in revenue dip. Turns out that the worldwide flights operating

S M I T H

TJiMTS

The Jobs Retention Scheme / furlough scheme is amazing. I don't think people really get it, they just see it as big businesses being 'bailed out' by the government.Let me

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Last week, 1.6 million workers applied for unemployment insurance (UI). Breaking that down: 881,000 applied for regular state UI, and 759,000 applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf There

Elise Gould

eliselgould

While a disappointing jobs report, job gains in leisure and hospitality respond to increased demand in April1/nhttps://www.epi.org/blog/while-a-disappointing-jobs-report-job-gains-in-leisure-and-hospitality-respond-to-increased-demand-in-ap

allison💞😘🤭

allisonnwrd

wait so who wants to have a new year's party and we play bingo, but its 2020 edition. ww3, corona, kanye for prez, police brutality, civil rights movement, revoking medical

Sarah Haider 🚀

SarahTheHaider

I’m convinced that there is no group today that despises the working class more than the folks justifying looting and the destruction of businesses. See also: this LARPing fuck. Of

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

Cabinet ministers sending “urgent message” to businesses about being ready for post Brexit trade changes, deal or not, acknowledging “challenging times” but saying that failing to do so risks business

Amir Sufi

profsufi

I spent a decent amount of time doing some economic forecasting during the 2012-2015 period. I was consistently more pessimistic than median forecasts on GDP growth, and such pessimism ended

Vitor Constâncio

VMRConstancio

Historic, unprecedented, essential, are all deserved adjectives to qualify the EU Summit decision on the €750bn Recovery deal. Common debt issuance (almost Eurobonds) to fund European fiscal stimulus in a

Jim Chalmers MP

JEChalmers

The Budget will rack up a trillion dollars of debt but still doesn’t do enough to create jobs, fails to build for the future and leaves too many Australians behind.

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadIt's bizarre to realize that as a layman, I know more about the world than Chris Wallace @FoxNewsSunday.Watch how Wallace asks a series of totally uninformed questions with no core

Buffy Wicks

BuffyWicks

2020 was a year of historic significance. A global pandemic. Economic hardship. Racial reckoning.But it’s in these moments of consequence that we’re reminded govt *does* have a role to play.

Alex

classicmacro

The bitcoin halving is in about 20 days and the $BTC implied volatility is relatively CHEAP. The 1 month at the money volatility is now at 76%. At the money

MacAlba

BlogAlba

Thread on independence. Please read it and tell me I am wrong.The Tories have changed their tune recently. They are now using the sound bite “the SNP doesn’t speak for

🔶Jonathan Banks🔶 Parliamentary spokes RNP

Jonathan_MBanks

My short thread: Brexit, and why we WON'T leave no-deal. How & why Johnson resigns, and what comes next. Just my theory - up for discussion. We are heading towards

🐾MilSpecOpsMonkey🐾

mil_ops

Supply Chain SITREP: I have seen stuff floating around about a “supply chain collapse” and wanted to weigh in on it. A few data points - fact: 90% of the