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Hello all, I’ve seen a lot of the tweets at me, about funds and all, and I want to assure everyone that a FULL and complete account of every single
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Excited to share my new @nberpubs paper w/ @martha_j_bailey and the late John DiNardo. We look at what happened when the 1966 FLSA increased its minimum wage to the highest
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Supplement to my piece posted yesterday and what I saw as the structural problem with Celtic's midfield much of the season- particularly against better opponents. And by "better" I mean
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I'm writing a curated megathread of every podcast I subscribe to.Each tweet will contain:• Host• What you'll learn• Three favorite episodes• Link to the podcast page It's going to be epic.But it'll be
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1800 words by me on why I think Google are publishing their mobility reports in PDFs, and why I think that's the right decision. With an invitation for all to
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It's a physics based simulation. Assuming population movements dynamics to be similar (at least in aggregate) to those of billiard balls bouncing on a flat frictionless table.https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1239267360739074048 More simulat
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What a ride it has been for GCM0, the June-expiry Comex #gold contract. One month ago it was trading at a $15/oz premium to the spot gold price.Now it's trading
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Fortunately at least a few people got it: the point of these polls was to explore the tradeoff between "voting as preference satisfaction" and "voting as information gathering".Thread: If the
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There are a variety of ultimately “don’t worry about the trajectory of COVID in the UK arguments” from mainly right wing commentators that are either plain wrong or missing the
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Just published @TheLancet The largest study of hydroxychloroquine shows a significant increase in death (~35%) and >2-fold increase of serious heart arrhythmias. ~96,000 patients, ~15,000 on HCQ or CQ from
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I have a (what appears to be) not-so progressive take on high age-gap relationships. *Table stakes: I am talking of cases where the threshold of consent has been passed. If
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I would love economists to start recognizing there's such a thing as a "supply side multiplier" effect when it comes to subsidizing or investing in the #caregiving economy. (Thread follows...
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I've been having an interesting email exchange with @ivozandhuis, whom I met at the Atlas of digitized newspapers workshop run by @EmilyJLB and @mhbeals a few weeks back.I think I've
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A Thread: Graeme Ashley HickI've been doing some reading in the lockdown and wanted to get some stats off my chest. Enigma's always interest me and Hick was certainly one
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#Covid19India Worked out the Testing performance for the States of India (based off partially reconstructed series, since ICMR has ceased to provide information). A major finding is that testing rate
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Beginning of a LONG thread summarizing the negotiated changes to S.386. Senator Durbin and Lee have reached a deal which bodes well for passage, but it is not known yet
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