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Something we saw in 2008-2009 and now again this year. When congress doesn’t deliver enough help, people end up getting mad about the help that was delivered (to banks then,
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That Vegas mayor interview was weird, but obviously the city can’t survive keeping casinos closed indefinitely.I think the real question is even if she opens up is anyone going to
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A brief comment on @ezraklein’s comment on @pmarca:I don’t think you can have a functional government or a functional society as long as “the social responsibility of business is to
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I don’t think this framing is right … this bill doesn’t contain any *bad* provisions that Democrats swallowed in exchange for the hospital & testing money they fought for and
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I’ve seen a bunch of epidemiologists snarking about negative oil prices being their chance to play amateur economist, but I think when weird stuff happens the views of smart outsiders
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Are people pretending to be mad at Nancy Pelosi for liking ice cream? I did not stock up on lactaid pre-rona so no ice cream for me personally.
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Bernie has been subjected to a thousand postmortems so it's probably worth asking what everyone else in the field did wrong (answer in almost every case is not directly challenging
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People with stable incomes who’ve reduced consumption due to diminished opportunities to do things are over-represented in the policy dialogue relative to people who’ve been forced to curtail spending by
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Nominal wages in digital media proving to be not that sticky. As a generalized collapse in demand sinks the advertising market and pulls the media down, I can’t help but
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I think Biden should reach out to the left by deleting some stuff from his current platform, then adding it back in and saying he's embracing big progressive ideas to
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This reminds me of when the MTA says they can’t achieve Paris’ tunneling costs because New York is old and dense.https://twitter.com/erinmdurkin/status/1250065622383431685 The fancy private high school I went to shuts
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Arguing about USPS privatization is fun because everyone knows what the Post Office is and does, but also the stakes seem kind of low so everyone can just let their
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