#Recession

Sarah Ryley

MissRyley

1/NEW analysis re: 25M new unemployment claims since the COVID-19 shutdowns.We requested weekly claims data from every state by gender, race, ethnicity, age, industry & occupation. 17 states gave us

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

While Twitter was getting mad about we are the virus takes about covid & climate, the climate policy/science community was warning that we shouldn’t celebrate the incidental positive effects on

John Woodrow Cox

JohnWoodrowCox

THREAD: This project, a massive undertaking by the @washingtonpost, set out to capture life, amid a pandemic, in the nation's capital. Over 24 hours, we witnessed the city's sorrow and

Brother Streetjoy

BroStreetJoy

1/ THE FIRST ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF A PRESIDENTLet’s have some conspiracy fun, eh?As usual I’m doing this one on the fly, with just a few loose facts & a spark

Sewell Chan

sewellchan

THREAD: Local newspapers are dying. Often, they're the only institutions working to hold government, businesses and powerful individuals accountable. Today, @latimesopinion is urging policy makers to #SavetheNews. https://www.latimes.c

Sergio Olmos

MrOlmos

“Stop the steal” rally in Salem, Oregon About 400 people at the Oregon capital, similar rallies are taking place nationwide Speaker says A.P. doesn’t decide election and doesn’t accept Biden

Charlotte Clymer 🏳️‍🌈

cmclymer

It was April 15, 2009, and I was watching The Daily Show (then hosted by Jon Stewart) along with everyone else who needed a dose of sanity in the early

scott cunningham

causalinf

I just taught @pedrohcgs and Callaway's excellent paper on nonparametric diff-in-diff. I think when you do a simulation showing the bias of TWFE and then show their estimator which isn't,

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

The Pence-Harris vice presidential debate is about to begin. Follow for a video thread. The optics of the plexiglass dividers aren't great for Pence These are the first words out

Grayson T(he) Spooky Scary Skeleton

GraysonGoal

Come November, you're not just choosing between 4 more years of Trump/Pence or Biden/HarrisA thread (partly mine, partly @unmitigated_ian's) You're voting out AG Bill Barr who has destroyed the independence

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

Ok kiddos let's do this. Time to talk about my pretty-minimal-but-still-REALLY-WEIRD brushes with the MIT Media Lab.https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1170733320365379584?s=20 Two things happened.One, I applied for a job there ab

CodeLaure 🇨🇭🎦🔭

CodeLaure

A sociophysics professor predicted the win of Donald Trump in 2016 against Clinton. He didn't believe his own prediction, and was shocked to see it come true ! He predicts

Nick Rowe

MacRoweNick

I'm so old I can remember 4 (or more, depending how you count them) *different* stories about why the Central Bank raising interest rates would cause inflation to *rise*.Have I

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

Why is Jeremy Corbyn so unpopular? His net approval rating is 'minus 60' - that's heroically, historically poor. But why? And is there a way back, like 2017?Been pondering with

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MacroTechnicals

MT GLOBAL MARKETS Momentum & Sentiment weekly 10May20 wk19/20 thread 1/n• RiskON sentiment continued• more ugly anticipated Macro data being confirmed• US FF Futs into NIRP + curve steepening• more

Sofia Horta e Costa

SofiaHCBBG

All of this happened in China this week. A thread. 1/10 Covid Zero or else. Stern words from China's top leaders, who warn criticism of Xi Jinping’s strategy won't be