#Recessions

Armine Yalnizyan

ArmineYalnizyan

Share of jobs lost by women? 62%Ladies and Gentlemen: Welcome to the She-Cession. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/jobs-report-to-show-ground-zero-of-covid-19-impact-in-canada"Unlike previous recessions, this downturn is decima

Craig Holmes

CraigPHolmes

I've been trying to think through what the job protection scheme means for school leavers labour market prospects. Here's what I've got. In a different recession, unemployment increases from job

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

Jamie Hannaford

jamiehannahorse

There are quite some flow recessions underway in this dry spell - the river Kent in Cumbria here going from exceptionally high to exceptionally low in just over 3 weeks.

Eric Basmajian

EPBResearch

Broad M2 growth has surged to the highest level in several decades. Before rushing to inflation, we should consider a few things. First, broad M2 growth can spike in the

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

Stagflation 101The term "stagflation" is used frequently in discussions of monetary policy and risks in the post-COVID world.But what is stagflation and how does it work?Here's Stagflation 101! 1/ Before

Michael Shellenberger

ShellenbergerMD

Do economic recessions increase the death rate?I had assumed so until I looked into itTurns out there is little evidence supporting a causal link, some evidence suggesting the opposite, and

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

When you can’t control the chaos, learn to enjoy it.Twitter is a collective fire not of heat and plasma but of language and norms consuming the rot of our past

groundskeeper fanny

ThatQueenFanny

might be a lukewarm take but the ‘greatest generation’ lived through 2 world wars, Spanish flu and 1 recession in 25 years. In less than that millennials have lived through

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧Edward Thomas Black

edglasgow59

1/The SNP are only riding high in polls because people perceive them to be competent and honest. They are neither. The MSM hate the Tories for having the EU referendum

Huralain 🐘👑

lifeinherlane

Here’s a LinkedIn hack for finding a company to sponsor your security clearance. Usually requires having IT experience in said field, but they sponsor for entry level/help desk positions a

Shai Akabas

ShaiAkabas

THREAD: This week, Social Security’s trustees projected that reserves in the retirement trust fund will deplete in 2034 & the disability fund in 2065. But the report didn’t look at

Brian Behnken

HistoryBrian

I've been editing chapters on 1970/80s police reforms. Activists in particular fought for better police training, "minority recruitment programs" to diversify police depts, psych testing to remove troubled officers. PDs

Kelly Morgan

arkelval

History Twitter, I am not shocked by this.The absence of true humanities education is readily apparent in any economics curriculum. Open any economics textbook and it's riddled with terms like

Gray Connolly

GrayConnolly

If you came of age as a lawyer in the period 1975-1995, you were in the golden age of long lunches, spousal business class travel (minimum), perhaps the fax machine,

Zach Silk

zachariahsilk

We've reached a strange moment in the pandemic: here in Washington state, we know that our social distancing is saving lives and helping the doctors and nurses on the front