#Relative

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

This is a good interview on trade with the always-intelligent @ProfSteveKeen. The problem with global trade isn’t trade itself. It is persistent trade imbalances, and most proponents of free trade

Me

mattdoc1988

A thread about ICU admission decisionsThere seems to be lots of (mis)information about how intensive care doctors decide whether a patient would benefit from coming to ICU. I thought I’d

Joel Snape

JoelSnape

Tory Twitter, yesterday. You can do stupid maths with anything, watch: to kill 120k people with austerity in 10 years, you'd have to kill 12,000 a year, that's 32 a

Fiqah Is Openly Cat

sassycrass

You know what's a bug out? Hearing speculation about how African-Americans are dying from #COVID19 at alarming rates because of pre-existing conditions like hypertension, diabetes and heart disease - with

Public Safety Lab

publicsafetylab

Some have asked about the composition of the jail population reductions seen during March/April.We are now running this code over the 1150 county jails in our sample. Here's an example

Gerg

Gergyl

No individual in real life takes actions against 10⁻⁵ events.(At least no one who is free from mental illness -- OCD for eg.) That's more like a 10⁻⁶ death risk,

Fractals and Rose

FractalsAndRose

"Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King called Monday for the removal of statues, murals and stained glass windows that depict Jesus as a “white European,” which he claimed “are a

Nathan Tankus

NathanTankus

Poverty is not a"lack of money".This is an oversimplification which is dangerous when it comes to macroeconomic poverty response programs.Poverty is deprivation.Deprivation does come from lack of access to individual

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I suspect there are multiple causes to the reduction in #SARSCoV2 Case Fatality Rates (CFRs). Improved treatment undoubtedly plays a role. There might be some mortality displacement with a fraction

Paul Holland

Paul_Hol1000

FOA "On the notion of gold value over time relative to all things-- particularly a fine suit for a man equating with one ounce. JUST LET IT GO. While some

Jon Tait Ⓥ

jontait

1/ Thread on distressed asset investing. Really this should be an entire book, or at least a full chapter, but I'll try to generalize what to look for and how

Mike Memoli

mikememoli

In his first in-person interview in months, @JoeBiden tells @danabash that a president needs to "lead by example," contrasting his and President Trump's Memorial Day appearances with, and without masks

Ryan Cummings

Pol_Sec_Analyst

South Africa's relatively low number of #covid19 infection & mortality rates, is the only reason why there is debate regarding the merits of lockdown. Its initiation - as elsewhere -

Kristen Marhaver

CoralSci

The pineapple corals are STILL at it y'all. We discovered when they spawn, but now we can't figure out when they stop.This past week, we closed the gap from night

Dini

NDkneeyah

I read a post yest whereby if there's people growing up who would throw up in situations like doing a presentation in sch. Basically if you're in a social gathering

Hardcore for Nerds

HC4N

This is an intriguing chart, given the news reports I see the most of - *per capita* Covid-19 deaths in Ireland are very close to, or tracking slightly above, those