#Estimate

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

NEW/EXC. Back in real world. The UK is nowhere close to meeting the target for 50,000 customs agents it needs for #Brexit, and the govt. "misleading" about it - haulage,

ipickuppennies

ipickuppennies

Here’s the math problem with this belief. Thread cuz this’ll take a min. Ok assume 2 kids & median US wage ($49k). Assume 2 incomes, $88k after tax & if

COValueInvestor

COValueInvestor

Thoughts on Netflix -- what you're underwriting with an investment in $NFLX at today's price ($507): Let's first stipulate that NFLX offers a wonderful product at a very good price.

Tom Quinn

bytomquinn

Some facts about dogs in Worcester, starting with most the most popular names (2019 and 1999):Information courtesy of the city's new open data portal: https://opendata.worcesterma.gov/ Analysis: Bella was the werewolf

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

How many people in the US have COVID? We don’t know, but @inschool4life and I estimate how many people have gone to their doctor with a non-flu influenza-like illness (ILI)

Malcolm Turnbull

TurnbullMalcolm

Pumped Hydro is the cheapest form of large scale energy storage. It is not new, has been around for more than a century, and is being built around the world.

Jim Bianco

biancoresearch

A thread explaining why the bond market is asleep and what wakes it up.---The next chart shows the MOVE Index (Merrill Options Volatility Estimate). It is the “VIX of the

Stu Burguiere

StuDoesAmerica

A thread on this viral map, which attempts to paint a very scary picture: depending on where you live, it is almost certain someone at your Thanksgiving gathering will have

St. Rev ☯️🏴😻

St_Rev

This seems important, and there's a related point that I've only seen mentioned once, in a comment thread on an econ blog.Discussion of R0 tends to treat it as a

Daniel Fluskey

danielfluskey

1. A thread on the @ioftweets and @CFGtweets story today that charities are facing a massive blackhole to their income for the year. The charity sector is in the midst

Chinmay Tumbe

ChinmayTumbe

Lot of talk on the scale of under-reporting of deaths in India in this Covid19 wave. My research on the 1918 influenza outbreak in India placed it as 3x i.e.

Chris Dowdy

jehiahdowdy

After the Indonesian tsunami I remember my brother just sitting sort of shell-shocked in his room. “All those people, just gone. Can’t listen to music. Can’t hang out. Just...gone.” 1/https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1250159339781922816

John R / Big new tweet coming May 3 at midnight

JohnR5838

$250,000 tweets (1/5)For those who don't know the city of #Cincinnati is using $250,000 from the Joe Biden "America Rescue Plan" to repair a painting on a city street that

Prateek Waghre

prateekwaghre

As we gear up to get back to work at 9 AM after a long weekend. Remember that we have unrestricted internet access. Meanwhile, 30th May will mark 300 days

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

There’s a new paper circulating today about “risk factors” for COVID19 which is getting misinterpreted in a pretty common way: applying conclusions about causation to results obtained via methods designed

Chris Buskirk

thechrisbuskirk

Short thread on oil prices:The headlines about negative oil prices yesterday & today are at once informative (sort of) & misleading. The big story is the chart below *not* that