#Economics

Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm

Today’s basic trade thread: gravity. Gravity in trade means that distance matters in trade. (Thread) Here’s an excerpt from one of the leading international economics textbooks (Krugman/Obstfeld/Melitz): “All estimated gravity

Will Scholze

WillScholze

Combining frac sand mine land today. Crazy story, I am uploading video.Mine started about 4 years ago buying land and built rail site for trucks hauling in from other mines2

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Good morning!!! I'm back to the office this week & pollution disappeared. I composed a haiku over the weekend on my Morning Trail hike & it goes like this:After the

RITA ADUBA

RitaAdubaBlog

When I read people praising Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealla I laugh at their ignorance. This woman was our finance minister twice and she did nothing other than influence a naive Obj to

Rugby Strength Coach

RUGBY_STR_COACH

To steal from @USAFootballMT here are some of my favourite sporting thought experiments. The answers to extreme questions should lead you to realize where your priorities really lie. Does your

Rajat Sethi

RajatSethi86

Govts will find it difficult to reduce oil prices because:1. Oil refineries purchase crude 2 months in advance so there is a considerable lag which will be even longer because

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

One completely anecdotal observation I would make is that this week the originalists seem more defensive and afraid of losing the argument than anytime I remember. There's bot-ish activity around

Suren

zeneraalstuff

Let me break down the economics of paurohityam for you. In today's world, the only time you see your family vadhyar Mama is during the annual shraddham. You will probably

Patrick McKenzie

patio11

This is true of the iPhone and a number of other technical artifacts, and it is underremarked upon.https://twitter.com/johnloeber/status/1197359578716884992 On the consumer Internet side of things: everyone uses the same Google,

Frances Woolley

franceswoolley

ThreadThe appeal of "minimum income" or "universal basic income" is that it's an abstract undefined concept, so people read what they want into it. As soon as we start talking

I, Themba

nxumalo__

Dear women"Your problem is that you never ask serious questions. You focus too much on a Man's fun side. So when emergencies happen you get the shock of your life

Elaine Ho 🌹 is on Patreon!

artofelaineho

Hi people, in the wake of this let me explain what the sunk cost fallacy is. Next to monopolies, it is the only thing I ever understood in economics and

Azmeen Rasheed

AxmeenR

Effects of Interest based Loans on Society Interest/Riba based Conventional Loans have a deeper impact on the community, below are a few negative impacts directly caused by such loans which

sushant sareen

sushantsareen

The basic problem with this govt is that it has no idea about how to run the economy. It depends upon babus to make the most convoluted and complicated policies

Scott King

MScott_King

One read of development economics is the following: what works for one country won't necessarily work for a different country, in part because there are a host of institutional variables

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

One of the most propagandized, weaponized & misunderstood concepts in economics is inflation.It’s also one of the most important.In this thread, we will cut through the lies about inflation &