#Yields

THREAD: I noticed a lot of people are confused about how the government creates money. So I thought I'd put my degree to use and explain, in simple terms, how
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Long thread: @AlexandraGeese s study by @economistaxcaso and Elizabeth Klatzer shows#nextgenerationEU (the EU Commission's recovery& resilience fund to respond to the effects covid-19) is bizarrely gender blind https://alexandragees
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What's the difference between California zoning bills #AB1279 and #SB50? There are many similarities (no demolitions, affordable housing) but also big differences.- Roads vs. Trains- Parking- Wealthy Single Family Zones-
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The phrase "Wall Street Versus Main Street" has a nice ring to it, but what does it actually mean? Here's a very concrete example of how policies can be rigged
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Is Bitcoin actually a negative yielding bond (with defined supply), just without a sovereign?Another thread guaranteed to make me wildly popular on the interwebs.1/ One of the curious things about
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An important piece of MMT-adjacent work that should get more attention is Bill Black's work on "control fraud," so here's a short thread on that.Control Fraud is when managers loot
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This new paper by @luisceze et al. is truly mind blowing and going to be a landmark in the DNA Storage domain.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.25.115477v1.full.pdfWhy?A thread! DNA Storage has gained interest since
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A thread on fiscal responsibility in Italy and the Netherlands. Since 1995, Italy has never had a balanced budget. The Netherlands has also run a deficit most years, but in
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It's hard to advance an argument where Republicans are hypocrites for advancing a nominee now that doesn't also imply Democrats are hypocrites for making an argument in principle that a
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As COMP crosses the $3b mark and Compound reaches over $500m in Total Value Locked on the platform, if you are like me you may be wondering how sustainable this
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Today is a good day for the security of AWS VPCs. A new API was released: route53:ListHostedZonesByVPC. This addresses a long-standing (six years!) deficiency in the Route 53 and VPC
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The Swedish Goblin Of Doom seems to have had a few mentions over the past few days, usually in relation to Extinction Rebellion.Fancy a quick history lesson?In the years before
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How will Land Rover's new and re-imagined Defender take on two of its competitive and history-steeped 4X4 wagons? Jeep's Wrangler Rubicon and Toyota's Land Cruiser 76 Series. Words & Photography by @car_advice "While
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MMT is a lie. #Bitcoin is the truth.An honest thread about a dishonest thread from @StephanieKelton https://twitter.com/StephanieKelton/status/1321180774675238912?s=20 A deficit occurs when any organization—a family, a company, or a gove
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With the past month ‘a challenge’, @Fire_and_Skill and my project on gender and the jazz world has been a great diversion. Originally motivated by the @NetworksGender study day last October,
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Want to know why I’ve been looking at 22,476 carrots and have about 25k more left to harvest? Read on...Putting in flowering strips looks good, but takes land out of
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