#Economics

Ultimate Upland

ultimateupland

Looking forward to reading @collinpeterson bill for a mandatory 50M acres of CRP. Currently there are only 21M acres enrolled at a cost of $1.8 billion per year. The last

The Kansas City Crank

kccrank

This article really hits home the problem in Kansas City.@QuintonLucasKC likes to talk about how increasing supply of luxury units is "trickle down economics". But, that's exactly what city policy

Lesego Semenya

LesDaChef

All about chocolate. A thread. #LesFoodFacts Let's start at the beginning. Where chocolate comes from and why it is so important to Africa.Originally harvested by the Incas in ancient MesoAmerica

Mostly Borrowed Ideas

borrowed_ideas

1/ Notes from @_ram_ episode @InvestLikeBest A bit late to this, but I was really looking forward to listening to Ram on Patrick's podcast. Ram is one of the most

Nego True

NegoTrue

I’m 200% behind Black Lives Matter as a movement, sentiment and phrase to live by. The organisation? I’m not so sure yet. When fighting for the equal treatment of black

Goldy

GoldyHA

1/ To add a little texture to @NickHanauer's thread, it's important to recognize that there's a good reason why orthodox economists (& economic cosplayers) so vehemently oppose a $15 min

Matthew Evans

head_teach

What does 25 years of teaching look like? On the first day of my first teaching placement (St Wilfrid’s in Crawley) the other trainee was using the internet to make

Sarah Mulhern Gross

thereadingzone

Every piece of media seems focused on this news from the CDC, but I wonder how many people have gone beyond the headline/Facebook post and read the early release? Let’s

the Life of Pumpkin Pi

ElSangito

left-progressives need to not reach across the aisle towards anyone to the right of them that that still act like there’s free market & private nonprofit solutions to structural issues.

Todd N. Tucker

toddntucker

Philip Morris challenged Australia's anti-smoking laws and lost, in what may be the WTO Appellate Body's final decision.I read the gargantuan 1,264-page panel report and 327-page appellate report so you

Jeremy Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

Like much of the country, my kids' school district has confirmed it will be virtual-only for the first semester.Under present conditions I think this is the right call, but it

AQ

Evollaqi

"While most men support legalizing prostitution, most women disagree"Hardly a surprising result, but puts Twitter's large "feminist pro-sex work" contingent into perspectivehttps://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/ar

Nick Hanauer

NickHanauer

1/4 Most people, especially academic economists, think that the controversy over the minimum wage is a contest over facts. It's not. It's a contest over power, status, and wealth. It

Lakshya Kanyakubja

Lakshya_____

Interactive & Social Commerce and What we can learn from the East.THREAD: 1/ We go to a store and end up purchasing things that weren't even on our list, don't

Jeanna Smialek

jeannasmialek

Monroe Gamble was the @sffed first-ever Black research assistant. In 2018. That wasn't a one-off. Black economists and RA's are a rarity across the Fed system, I learned from data

Saifedean.com

saifedean

With a fixed supply of money, holding the money itself is similar to investing in a global index fund which offers no yield but appreciates with global productivity. Anyone can

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