#Recessions

Amit Patel

AmitBhupsPatel

I’m seeing a lot of people on the TL panic about the UK recession. There’s various things to consider and economists were definitely anticipating it. Please don’t buy the scaremongering

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD

Arrianna_Planey

My first day as an Assistant Professor is tomorrow! What a journey this has been!I figured, why not share some reflections?https://twitter.com/Arrianna_Planey/status/1213163498294915072 First, I did not think that I would stay/land

Tony Wilson

tonywilsonIES

Here's a short thread on our Getting Back to Work report. It's clear that this recession will lead to a rise in unemployment steeper than any in living memory with

Liz Gross (she/her)

lizgross144

Recessions are hard. And the next few years are going to hard for #HigherEd. Throw in the whole pandemic, and businesses are reeling. Cash flows are tight. People want revenue.We

Steve Chou

mywifequit

5 tips to help you prepare for the next recession (pandemic edition)From a guy who has:> Lived through 2 recessions> Runs 2 online businesses (inc a 7 figure e-com store)>

Hand Washing Tex

theycallmetex

Nothing is new, really. I wanted to share something I learned back in 2008-2009, for those that care about such things. Some bg: I come out of the world of

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joshnizzy

Here’s ONE of the many reasons the WEALTH GAP gets wider during RECESSIONSOk so a recession hits, doom & gloom. People lose jobs, businesses stop investing etc etc etcAsset prices

Matt Jimmy

mboehning

The main reasons I'm hearing from the right, e.g. @RepTrey, to support reopening the economy ASAP are that recessions are bad (no shit) and that #COVID2019 is only dangerous to

Peter K Reilly

PeterKReilly

1/As we progress through the COVID19 pandemic and we get enough information to speculate what the world looks like moving forward I find myself growing increasingly bearish on the economy

Ezra Klein

ezraklein

I love this @AnnieLowrey jeremiad against the term "low-skill jobs." Those jobs aren't low-skill. They're low-wage, and calling them low-skill is a way of blaming often exploited workers for inequality

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

It’s official. Not only is the UK now formally in recession. It’s the deepest recession in UK history. The deepest of any G7 economy. The deepest since the invention of

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

David Roberts

drvolts

1. The argument from some Dems that there's no point investigating/prosecuting/impeaching Trump because Congressional Rs will always protect him & thus it won't hurt him or remove him from office

Mo Black | This is a soft coup

__MoBlack

Animaniacs making "Vuvuzela no food"-tier communism jokes rn and I'm not here for it I don't think they know the Russian Federation isn't communistAmericans: "The USSR is gone we won

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/8The last recession ended 12 years ago. I covered that recession full-time & my takeaway was that if you went into it in good financial shape, you came out of

Alan Cole

AlanMCole

My new @JECRepublicans report. The basics: saving often gets a bad rap from demand-side macroeconomists, especially during recessions. However, under the particular circumstances of COVID-19, it's doing some good stuff!https://www.jec.s