#Brookings

Clarity

covid_clarity

Covid twists & turns… a 2020 retrospective…A year that skidded down a misguided path and ended with a shimmer of hope amid the rubble and ruin.Thread 1/ In 2020, the

Dan Collier, Ph.D.

Dcollier74

Our pre-print brief is available for download:Another Lesson on Caution in IDR Analysis:Using the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances to Examine Income-Driven Repayment and Financial Outcomes https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id

Tanja Hester 😷 BLM 🏳️‍🌈🌏

our_nextlife

Seems like a lot of folks could use a primer on economic stimulus, as well as "fairness" in our system.So let's talk about both.Economic stimulus was originated as a concept

Jubilee

workingjubilee

Please read The Authoritarians if you are still muttering "I just don't get it" about any of this. https://theauthoritarians.org/options-for-getting-the-book/ Take 328 million people.Minus the 29% not eligible.Minus the 33% wh

Seamus Bruner

seamusbruner

THREAD: Matea Gold is not just any WaPo reporter. She sits at the heart of the Clinton oppo smear machine. It’s a tangled web but brings in Strobe Talbott and

Sylvester Equation

neoliberal_dad

The major development here is that through essentially capitalist machinations, Blackrock and other index funds find themselves seeing the world less like a company and seeing more like a government.

Dan Price

DanPriceSeattle

Compared to white people:*Black-owned homes devalued 23%*Black-owned property taxes 13% higher*Bank fees 2x higher for black customers*Black-owned biz closed at twice the rate in pandemic*Black people w/ NO criminal record

PonderJaunt

PonderJaunt

Gather around Trees! I shall weave you a web of roots.Some have seen this all before. Many have not. My DMs are open; reach out and counter these points publicly

John Purakal, MD

JohnPurakal

BREAKING: America is going hungry. #FoodInsecurity (FI) rates have seen meteoric rises during the #covid19 pandemic, like many social determinants of health (homelessness, IPV, transportation, etc). A brief on FI,

Asfandyar Mir

asfandyarmir

Among the main near-term foreign policy decisions facing the Biden admin after Jan 20 is what to do about Afghanistan (https://www.vox.com/21726445/iran-north-korea-russia-afghanistan-joe-biden-foreign-policy). This thread summarizes policy

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Here's a thread of my latest blog post, on Japanese homogeneity. Lots of people say Japan is a "homogeneous society". But how homogeneous is it really?https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/how-homogeneous-is-japan 2/Lots of peop

Thomas Silverstein

T_Silverstein

Problems with this:- I'm pretty serious abt the challenges posed by land availability & zoning to subsidized housing development (see pinned tweet) but care to guess how many LIHTC units

Dr Quigley

CarrollQuigley1

The other owners of SolarWinds is Silver Lake Partners (SLP).SLP Co-founder Glenn Hutchins is a former advisor to Bill Clinton and is currently on the board of the Obama Foundation.

William Meservy

WilliamMeservy

Happy Election Day! Here are 18 quick reasons why electing Biden--and a Democratic sweep--is probably a better choice for the economy: 1) Moody’s Analytics believes that “a victory for Joe

Who's Gonna Be Lucky Indicted #2? - Brian Cates

drawandstrike

Amazing that the DNC Media hacks are still flogging the dead RussiaGate horse when Durham is rolling out indictments about it.Anybody who thinks this stops with Clinesmith hasn't followed SpyGate

Rachel Esplin Odell

resplinodell

There's also significant bipartisan opposition to the new consensus on US primacy in Asia & confrontation of China though. It's good Asia policy isn't divided on partisan lines, but primacists

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