#Economic

Sarah Leah Whitson

sarahleah1

An excellent set of recos re revamping US foreign policy in a way that better serves middle class Americans ⁦@CarnegieEndow⁩ - some honest reappraisals here:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/foreign-policy-should-work-be

Adam Serwer 🍝

AdamSerwer

The people in charge are scammers. So they are bad at running the government, bad at handling economic distress, and bad at protecting Americans from disease. Like most successful scammers

Douglas

dijdowell

The EU was never going to entertain any such protocol for Scotland, and if Yes advocates ever thought it might, they were deluding themselves. The reason the EU negotiated the

Elizabeth Spiers

espiers

The logic hole here is big enough to drive a monster truck through, but par for the course economic "thinking" from the right. In less than an hour, free markets

Patricia

PatriciaNPino

I have not seen a single “Left Wing” economist who opposes the #jobguarantee, speak about the injustice of a system that coherces people into unemployment. Some will support infrastructure spending

Independent SAGE

IndependentSage

NEW: The Independent SAGE has responded to yesterday’s news that the government is expected to announce relaxing of 2-metre rule. We have reviewed the scientific evidence & believe it is

🟠Dylan-BTCization🟠

BTCization

8. A risk factor worth considering, however, is that it would also make basis trading much more efficient and attractive at current pricing, particularly if those ETFs can be purchased

planefag

planefag

Good luck making that happen when every state lockdown is being imposed - and will be rescinded - by each state's Governor, and most of them are shaping up to

Richard Steigmann-Gall

Notorious_RSG

1/ The Nazis called themselves “National Socialist.” But this doesn’t mean they IDed as leftists or Marxists. Quite the opposite. They believed in a collective identity and were against individualism;

Chi

theAfroLegalise

Ironically today is Nigerian Independence Day. Right now the U.S. military is training the Nigerian military and setting up numerous military bases to further U.S. economic interest on the continent.

Jonathan Koomey

jgkoomey

I want to add a subtle clarification to this thread, in which people try to answer the question on whether we should "let go of [1.5 C] as a policy

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

It’s a false choice to say you have to choose between getting the pandemic under control and saving the economy.Republicans and their wealthy constituency are unwilling to try anything because

Noémie Bouhana

noemie_bouhana

Reflecting on the extent to which poverty may contribute to VE provides a really good illustration of the challenge posed by investigating (or weighing claims about) the role of multilevel

Timesh Pillay

timeshpillay

Not reported in the headlines: Sunak’s budget yesterday announced spending *£10 billion* on the track and trace system.Let that sink in for a second…https://hmtreasury-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/summer-economic-update-a-plan-for-jobs 1/n

manvir singh

mnvrsngh

Grand narratives of history often center on interactions among ideas, polities, & Great Individuals (esp. Great Men). But one of the important & overlooked actors is disease! Here are some

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aysshie

'securing the bag' is a creation of the capitalist superstructure that makes us believe that resources are finite, so we better get that $$$ before someone else takes 'our' piece