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2021 US Political Outlook-Biden centrists vs progressives causes rift internally-Mideast & African tensions-COVID response, new lockdowns for Biden PR-Stalemates in House & Senate bills-Climate initiatives vs on-shoring desire-Rogue

Richard Florida

Richard_Florida

1. On these end of city takes that seem to endlessly proliferate: several things strike me. I’ll just state them out here. 2. The first is how they always center

Viet Thanh Nguyen

viet_t_nguyen

Were the LA riots an outcome of white supremacy?Yes.Why are Black communities segregated in LA? Look at the history of redlining and racial covenants that kept them out of white

Tego Sigel

TegoSigel

I get on the tube every day and see occupancy down by about 90% in rush hour. I keep expecting it to improve, but it's not. London is going bankrupt.

Arthur Delaney

ArthurDelaneyHP

Mitch McConnell last night said Congress coulda done this bill in July:“Republicans were advocating for a package just like this one, all along, in real time.”No, they weren’t. McConnell in

Rafael de Arízaga

RafaeldeArizaga

Provocative words from Álvaro d'Ors's brilliant "La violencia y el orden" (1987):"The deep connection between pacificsm and democracy is as clear as it is hidden. It lies simply in replacing

Norman Young

NormanGYoung

Conservatives are WOEFULLY unprepared for this.To see why, try asking any conservative to argue against this video WITHOUT using the emotionally/historically-loaded words #socialism and #communism.They can't do it.https://twitter.com/ka

Mike P. "Ontario Dad" Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅

MikePMoffatt

Thread. This is literally the first time in my life that I've felt that we'd exceed a climate target.This is the first time in my life I've felt that we'd

Jesse Livermore

Jesse_Livermore

THREAD: The economic harm of trying to induce short squeezes What's the economic harm? Obviously, if a bubble forms that bursts, extreme wealth transfer will occur from late buyers to

Alexis Le Nestour

Alenestour

@SFCarvalho_edu , @AnaMinardi1 and I have been looking at what could happen to household education spending following the Covid-19 economic shock. A short summary thread. https://twitter.com/CGDev/status/1334906178665664512 In developing co

Dermot Cole

DermotMCole

1. @GovDunleavy named former Gov. Sean Parnell and former Sen. Mark Begich last March as volunteers leading the economic stabilization team. #akleg #akgov https://gov.alaska.gov/newsroom/2020/03/17/governor-dunleavy-announces-alaska-economi

Patrick Chovanec

prchovanec

1. Here's the way I look at the Keystone Pipeline. 2. It's a private venture. Does it make economic sense, given all the alternatives? I don't know. The people building

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

I am sceptical about the #closetheschools argument. There is at least one significant practical and ethical difference between how to manage/mitigate the economic consequences and educational consequences of a lockdown

Eva Cantor, Water-Boiling Economist

PoRiverJamBand

Since a small contingent of (cismale, heterosexual, white) people in the SRA are arguing colonialism can only happen through economic means, I'd like to point something out.As an economist.Economics does

David S. Mitchell

dsmitch28

A wave of recent academic evidence makes clear that combating voter suppression would have a direct, positive impact on the economy. THREAD! Despite high turnout in 2020, it's likely that,

Brian McCarthy

briangobosox

“Deficits don’t matter” is tautologically false. There is no “resource fairy” who can create goods & services out of this air for us to consume. What is really meant by

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