#Economists

Lukas Freund

_LukasFreund_

Sunak's #minibudget includes a variety of active labor market policies.There is a rich economic literature that can help inform coverage & assessments.A short thread that points to a few recent-ish

Mello.B33

B33Mello

1/ In this thread i will explain why nearly the entire medical & scientific world has everything backwards regarding SARS-CoV-2 & why over focusing solely on virus itself & what

Kashmir Watch

kashmir_watch

#Thread on Mushaal Mullick1.Mushaal Mullick is the wife of #terrorist turned separatist leader #YasinMalik . A #Pakistani by birth, she is often seen on SM expressing her discontent on how

Kamil Galeev

kamilkazani

Very good question. I would however separate it to two different topics:1. Why was the Russian army so much overrated?2. Why was the Ukrainian army so much underrated?Let's try to

Giorgos Kallis

g_kallis

On twitter we spend time in silly debates: is degrowth impoverishment, negative GDP, lockdown misery bla bla. But in our normal lives we are producing some pretty k.a. research. Here

Avik Roy

Avik

THREAD: Big news today. For the first time, we have a confirmed report of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection by a patient in Hong Kong—his/her #COVID19 diagnoses were 4.5 months apart. This blows

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ibnErnest

I was raised atheist. I first began to lose faith when I was 16, in chemistry class. As we studied the periodic table, it seemed too well organized. What was

Christopher Desira

cldesira

Thread: The @ukhomeoffice published further details on the ‘UK’s [2021] Points-Based Immigration System’ today (https://bit.ly/32kiJxU ). There’s been a few excellent threads on this today, here’s my take: It’s worth saying

Alan Cole

AlanMCole

:Yesterday we talked a bit about why stable nominal GDP growth is desirable. While my new paper speaks well of NGDP targeting, it is not the only content.In fact, much

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

In 1972, the Club of Rome published "Limits to Growth," which used pretty straightforward modeling to predict that the world's productive capacity would be exhausted soon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth1/ B

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

THREADOkay. Last night I cracked the code for Social Security.I did it for YOU and for @realDonaldTrump.This thread is the definitive PURELY FACTUAL primer. @TrumpWarRoom needs to take note of

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

32/ It is in this context—(1) Trump owing the Chinese $200+ million; (2) having them as a major renter bringing him tens of millions; (3) he and his family knowing

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update July 31: We have spent months in the US being perfect hosts to the virus while most of the world has flattened it. What will change in August?

James Dyke

JamesGDyke

Climate policies built around netzero have become a dangerous trap. This is about the hardest article I have written. Not because it’s technical, but because of the emotions & worry

Anil

anilsaidso

Selected quotes from Part II of @FossGregfoss’s salient paper:‘Why Every Fixed-Income Investor Needs to Consider Bitcoin as Portfolio Insurance’0/ “Bitcoin is the best asymmetric trade I have seen in my

Will Bennett

thewillbennett

LIVE DEBATE TWEETS SORRY NOT SORRY Dude just talked about the Supreme Court nominee for two minutes without even saying her name. Then said the democrats would’ve done the same