#Economists

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

I’ll gladly take the bet. Jeffrey Sachs is a brilliant guy but I don’t think he understands how the balance of payments works. His argument about why the RMB will

Conor Dougherty

ConorDougherty

In the meantime, I wrote a story about rent, which has puzzled me so greatly.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/business/economy/coronavirus-rent-landlords-tenants.html The first week of the shutdown, something like a third of renters didn&

Hugo Brady

hugobrady

Essential question that needs to better understood, soberly, not emotionally. It is a bit like Nostradamus' predictions on the End of the World: always about to happen for reasons newly

Marshall Steinbaum 🔥

Econ_Marshall

A thread about this fantastic @DeathPanel_ episode on the “Great Barrington Declaration,” because this stuff is really f___ing important. https://www.patreon.com/posts/42895151 cc @PhilipRocco @jfeldman_epi /1 They write about Jay

Joseph Skewes

josephskewes

Wow.After all the hoo ha yesterday about the RBA 'halting the real estate market' I just went & read the email exchange.Many articles and Twitter warriors are grossly exaggerating the

Marie-Louise Arlt

maloarlt

I wanted to share some „technical“ insights/recommendations for skills and tools which I (sometimes painfully) acquired during my PhD studies... (in Econ/energy system analysis) Any additions are welcome as my

Duncan Weldon

DuncanWeldon

Be careful with economic stats. A quick thread.The ONS are an excellent organisation. They’ve done some superb & timely work on different aspects of Covid-19.But, as they rightly acknowledge, everyone

Samiullah Tariq

samigodil

A general thread on improving Balance of Payments of Pakistan. There’s a perception amongst analysts and economists in Pakistan that the improvement in Current Account is due to lower imports.

Anas Alhajji

anasalhajji

Thread on Iraq invasion of Kuwait 1- My first claim to fame was when I was a grad student doing research work on the role of oil in Iraq's economic

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

I did a talk in the excellent @MarkusEconomist Academy series yesterday on “Do Debt and Deficits Matter Anymore.” You can watch the video, see the slides, or read this longish

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

Lastly, every day I have an experience that parallels Black American lives. I’m neurodivergent & a disagreeable contrarian. So I have an army of people telling me from the moment

Trump is dumber than a rock. Official.

trumpfarts1

@jimtankersley @CNN @maddow @jaketapper @guardian @Independent @chrislhayes @andersoncooper @ChrisCuomoTen days ago I asked why no one was asking aboutThe Whitehouse report on Pandemic influenza from Sept152019 It contained chilling moments

Lydia DePillis

lydiadepillis

Economists have gone into hyperdrive with COVID-19 related research. Just today, an analysis using smartphone location data finds that areas with more Republicans engage in less social distancing than more

Financial Times

FinancialTimes

Donald Trump threatened to ‘put on hold’ funding for the World Health Organization and Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has pledged to donate $1bn to coronavirus relief efforts. Follow our

Frank Cottrell-Boyce

frankcottrell_b

I couldn’t sleep last night so I read this. It’s by, among others, Dominic Raab and Priti Patel. It outlines their “thinking”. It's difficult to convey how ridiculous it is.

Kannan Gopinathan

naukarshah

"The worst is over"!Dear PM @narendramodi, here is a collection of "The worst is over" ft that you pulled off year after year. Imagine being able to say that every