#Recession

1/ If it’s not glaringly obvious your company has product-market fit yet, with customers pulling the product from you, it very likely doesn’t. 2/ One of the most common mistakes
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President Trump’s move to push through a Supreme Court nominee is rightfully drawing attention to the Trump admin’s ongoing attempt to overturn the Affordable Care Act through the courts. I
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100 years ago, World War I and the Spanish Flu together claimed ~100M lives.At a time when the world was in tatters, Guccio Gucci began to stitch together a business
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good morninghappy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are Jennifer Hewitt (AFR national affairs), Lanai Scarr (Westralian political chief) and Pat Karvelas (ABC radio and TV). The interview is with Nats deputy
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This is terrible newshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/larry-summers-advising-biden-campaign-on-economic-recovery?sref=f7rH2jWS In run up to a vote on unlocking the second tranche of bailout funds to Wall Street, Summers promised pro
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Let me summarise a really important new #COVID19 modelling paper from Rosalyn Moran, Karl Friston and colleagues from Kings and UCL, London. Published in ArXiV. (1) https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/covid-19/Moran_arXiv_2020.pdf "We sought to
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THREAD- Its early days but very soon, the scale of the “shock geometry” of Coronavirus on the economy and public finances will need deep analysis. What do we know to
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Bookmarking this. Trump is taking full ownership of the US economy. Says the current state of the economy is nothing to do with Obama and everything to do with him.The
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The biggest threat to America right now is not being discussed much (by anyone but @ewarren) GOD, she needs to be Treasury Secretary.If young people don't vote this time, given
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Habits of self made millionaires (Thread).I know alot of people aspire to become one (not sure why this specific number). It is achievable but the time it takes you will
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I did a talk in the excellent @MarkusEconomist Academy series yesterday on “Do Debt and Deficits Matter Anymore.” You can watch the video, see the slides, or read this longish
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(Thread: 1/n) I dont want to comment on proposed institutional structure since there is a lot of missing info which is imp towards forming any opinion on proposed changes. But
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Hello! I wrote a piece in @TheEconomist about pre-docs and there was MUCH more than I could fit in the piece (if only the ratio of interview notes to words
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THREAD. The economic shock of COVID-19 is the result of public fear of contracting or spreading the virus and government-ordered closures of large sectors of the economy to enforce social
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*BIG NEWS THREAD!*I lost my job.Multi-year, government manager with a pension and full benefits.It was and still is a shock, but...Here's how our financial approach makes this loss very, very
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Donald Trump is considering banning domestic air travel, the UN climate talk in Glasgow will be postponed and New Zealand ordered banks to halt dividends. Follow our live coverage here:https://on.ft.com/341mTts 
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