#Economists

The GREAT Houdini

TheGREATHoudin2

Thread: FACTS: MAGA? OBVIOUSLY, by your statement you ADMIT YOU AND YOUR ADMINISTRATION TOTAL FAILURES! 156K DEAD FROM COVID; 4.5M INFECTED; 71K DRUG OVERDOSE deaths; 38K GUN DEATHS; 1800 FARMERS

Anup Malani

anup_malani

I find discussions of herd immunity thresholds frustrating. Herd immunity (which I'll define as a current reproductive rate < 1) depends on policy & behavior. It is NOT an absolute

David Andolfatto

dandolfa

Excellent thread by @JoMicheII explaining core Keynesian dogma via Joan Robinson. This idea is important and worth understanding. However, the follow-up critique of competing dogma seems invalid (and unnecessary) to

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

For people and businesses, money is scarce; for currency-issuing governments, it's not. The story that governments "spend our taxes" is obviously wrong: since governments are the SOURCE of money, it

Alessandro Bonetti

bonetti_aless

PUBLIC DEBT HYSTERIA IN ITALY Each passing day, I'm more and more astounded at the hysteria surrounding public debt in Italy. This hysteria has country-specific peculiarities. In Italy it's somehow

Dr. Safa Mote

SafaMote

Thread on "Masks, Einstein, Interdisciplinary Science, and defeating #COVID."In 1905, which @AlbertEinstein called his "miracle year", he published four important papers. One of them was on "Brownian Motion":ht

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I'm enthusiastic about the prospect of cheap, fast, at-home paper strip COVID tests for daily proactive screening. To get the most out of them, we need to start thinking

Andrew Dean

andrewhdean

As much of the UK goes back into yet another severe lockdown and cancels Christmas, I'd like to remind you of the many Serious Business groups that said that New

Hugh Hendry Eclectica

hendry_hugh

1 Let's lance this boil re @LukeGromen claim that global CBs stopped sterilising reckless US deficits 6 years ago. 2 Until then we had to suffer the China, like Japan

Future of Music Coalition

future_of_music

Here's the most important thing happening for music today that you haven't heard about: the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in Prometheus Radio vs FCC. What's that about? We'll

Dr. Sarah Cohodes

SarahCohodes

Hi everyone, I’m here to #TweetABlackEconomistsPaper, and I am very excited to share work by @CarycruzBueno. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/paulgp/status/1275436970131378176 If you haven’t met @CarycruzBueno, she’s a postdoc at @AnnenbergInst

Dan

Count_Truculent

Thread: NZ Property - late stages of a blowoff?1) Being bearish on housing in NZ in the last 10 years was wrong and a view I have been guilty ofHowever

Abhijit Chokshi

stockifi_Invest

40 harsh truths I wish someone told me at the start of my Investing Career:1. The market doesn't care how much you paid for a stock or what you think

Per Bylund

PerBylund

Let's clear up some misconceptions about #AustrianEconomics. If people want to dismiss this school of thought, which many seem inclined to do for political (not theoretical) reasons, at least they

Axios

axios

DEEP DIVE — The Biden economy As President Biden pushes his economic recovery plans forward, we're taking a look at the economy he is inheriting, the team he has selected

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

Let’s talk suppression versus eradication. The real expert here is probably @devisridhar and she can chime in if she wants. As far as I can see we face several obstacles

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