#Economists

#txlege is considering a bill (HB570) that would incentivize investments in small business recovery in Texas. It provides tax credits for small business funds. What could go wrong? A thread.(1/8)
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(1/13) As I’ve been reading more from the papal encyclicals, I’m starting to see some of the issues in the strict libertarian views. While I agree with Austrian economic analysis
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Before I got cut off by a bad connection this morning (ding ding!) I covered this front page story in The Age/SMH on ABC News Breakfast, and I wanted to
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A little over four years ago I stumbled onto #MMT. It was (and still is) a lot to process, but fairly early on in my reading I was convinced of
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I’m angry and sad by what feels like stalled progress towards more equitable policing in this country. And have been feeling discouraged which doesn’t help anybody. Thanks to the push
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#NowReading The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence(Started 1/22/21) Some highlights from Part 1 (Mandelbrot's mission statement + criticisms of modern finance) Mandelbrot and Hudson's Intro and
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NEW: Republicans' $1T stimulus is being held up over competing ideas for replacing unemployment insurance, GOP officials tell me & @ericawerner Tl;dr -- Some in GOP want complex "wage replacement"
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In 2014, the New York Times reported a story about Jannette Navarro, a mother of a 4-year-old working at a Starbucks. With only a few days notice, she would be
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You can’t think about the labor market today (or any day really) without thinking about childcare. A thread: It’s important to know that even before the pandemic, more than half
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I'm so old I can remember 4 (or more, depending how you count them) *different* stories about why the Central Bank raising interest rates would cause inflation to *rise*.Have I
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A thread on "nominal anchor".Which is something central banks & monetary economists talk about, but rarely explain.(I have no idea where I'm going with this.) 1/ Everyone knows that 2
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As Biden lays out ambitious plans to stimulate the US economy and fight inequality with new money creation (spending) and money destruction (higher taxes on corporations, capital gains and the
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NEW ESSAY from @Lindsey_Brink: The flawed ideology of the free-market movement is the belief that a “free-market” will be successful when it’s completely unregulated.Free-markets need government regulation to thrive. 1/https://www.nis
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Spoilers for anyone attending my webinar tonight but I love talking about how current events can be used as inspiration for super-curricular activity to explore your subject, and today is
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I keep seeing the assertion that Keynes coined the term "animal spirits" in 1936 to talk about investors. This was an *extremely* common term during the 19c, meaning something like
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I agree with @ummodern that this is a great piece by @csissoko I also agree with his point about systemic interdependencies. Let me take a stab at expanding on that
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