#Economics

WILL THIS EVER CHANGE. Last week, 1.4 million workers applied for unemployment insurance (UI). Breaking that down: 822,000 applied for regular state UI (not seasonally adjusted), and 608,000 applied for
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Going to make a rather obvious prediction: big business will be the fundamental beneficiary of all of this - and small business the fundamental loser. Despite the seemingly revolutionary state
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Friedrich Hayek has some good explanations for why your epidemiologists' models were so far from reality.https://mises.org/library/pretense-knowledge Expectation is the mother of disappointment. Nobody can possibly know what kind of implications
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Among our many looming challenges one that has not gotten sufficient attention is that the US is in the midst of an unprecedented cultural depression--the arts have been devastated by
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Would you learn something just for the sake of learning? Even though it has no practical application to your life atm whatsoever? More specifically, do you find the process of
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On Friday, I taught my economics of education students about "value-added models" for measuring teacher quality. We discussed their pros and their cons.Then I got the following marvelous e-mail from
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In the controversy around Modern Monetary Theory, both its advocates and its critics (for the most part) take MMT at face value as a theory of money, and so go
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#AfricanLivesMatter A young attorney asked me to mentor him. I sent him 10 books on politics, economics , business leadership & history and asked him to read before our first
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Thank you for writing this @itsafronomics, though you shouldn't have had to. I keep seeing some wringing of hands of non-black economists on what they can do, as if we
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Education , Healthcare and Macro Economics are my forte. I spend hours combing through any information related to these sectors daily. Where I may be - home, clubs, pubs, traffic.If
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Where’s the best place to go for ALL things eth/eth2?Any up-to-date place that has EVERYTHING about:- eth 2.0 roadmap & phases- L2 scaling (zk-Rollups, optimistic, sidechains, state & payment channels)-
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When talking age gap relationships, I feel like there should be some emphasis on how, for the most part, serious committed relationships aren't societally supported for folks in the emerging
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China has to hold massive US debt because China exports more than it imports. There is no realistic way for China to collect on that debt unless it imports heavily
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For once I am not going to talk about MMT.I am going to talk about *mainstream* neoclassical economics. We are told Tax's fund spending, and any spending above taxation is
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Another 1.5 million people applied for unemployment insurance (UI) last week. That includes 870,000 people who applied for regular state UI and 630,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. 1/
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Long boring thread for Indian Muslims friendsPlease unite among yourselves first, you have so many Jamats and sections. Unite and speak in one voice, your unity not only important for
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