#Economy

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/12One thing many of us have learned in the last year is how productive we can be when we aren’t spending an hour or two commuting to and from work.

fry

anniefryman

Patrick is right: build housing, among many other things.My addendum a less-discussed part of housing twitter is the devastating impact that real estate booms & busts have on job

Ben Chu

BenChu_

In the wake of the Bank of England’s latest forecasts the media is full of talk of an economic “boom”.One headline this morning even calls it a *supersonic* boom.What to

Trent Meyer

TrentMeyerAg

Seeing #yxe bars/restaurants empty tells me that they will not survive this winter. The cash burn must be astronomical. Now is when university would be returning (ie: a month they

elle woods ♿︎🍒

givemepllants

if usps goes down we’ll have no mail. zero. no letters ever again. no more birthday cards. every single small business will die. the economy would crash. hundreds of thousands

Progress Arizona

Progress_AZ

THREAD:GOP Members of the #AZLEG have been strongly advocating for the reopening of the state — despite health experts warning against that and rising #COVID19 cases in the state. Some

The Philippine Star

PhilippineStar

Senators are supporting an extension of the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine to ensure the containment of COVID-19, but stressed the government should make a decision soon so that everybody can

Edouard Challe

ChalleEdouard

What are the effects of a negative AS shock & how should the central bank respond?THREAD, partly based on a just-published paper of mine (AEJ Macro April 2020)https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20180207(1/7) In macro

Richard Hine

richardhine

Bookmarking this. Trump is taking full ownership of the US economy. Says the current state of the economy is nothing to do with Obama and everything to do with him.The

Mark Steene

MarkSteene

#CoronavirusLockdownUK #coronavirus Coronavirus: Remedy is Worse than the Cause...? There's two extreme options in the UK with coronavirus:1. Take no action: 500,000 people could have died by August2. Current full

unseen1

unseen1_unseen

If you are a average democrat in say PA (not a far left loon democrat like those in CA, WH press room and NYC) there really isn't any reason for

Liam Kelly

WordsFromLiam

Horrifying to read Liverpool now has the highest youth unemployment rate in the country. BBC make a clear link with lockdown and the city’s dependence on leisure & tourism.Young people

Sebastian Payne

SebastianEPayne

The dark side of lockdownAs the UK enters its fifth week in isolation and the Cabinet is split, the alarming side effects are mounting: abuse, paedophilia, depression, anxiety, scant cancer

Joe Rich

realJosephRich

1/ I've been investing for 22 years, and I've never seen irrational exuberance and false hope around equities like we're experiencing right now. Over the past few weeks, many people

balajis.com

balajis

Farming was the 1800s. Manufacturing was the 1900s. Counterintuitively, could investing become the most common "job" of the 2000s?Reason: crypto and fintech are turning everyone into an investor, just like

AdVoKat

AdVoKat_Miaw

Sadly the number of strong, economically sound UBI proposals are falling on very deaf ears. I am deeply disappointed that @JustinTrudeau @cafreeland @Bill_Morneau refuse to take this practical, economy-strengthening step