#Economists

Caitlin Long 🔑

CaitlinLong_

1/ HOW TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON IN FINANCIAL MKTS. Western world built up a debt bubble of stunning proportions over past ~50yrs. It's deflating now, just as it tried

arclight

arclight

Read the thread and consider software risk and system safety from this perspective. When designing for safety, ask "for whom?"https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1340796465967476737 While drafting my legacy scientific code b

Starks☪️🇹🇩

MegaIntelIect

Thread on Islamic Economics & how it eradicated poverty.TLDR; Islamic Economics supersedes every cringe-"ism" and potentially can eliminate all forms of financial oppression including poverty. Islam historically successfully e

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

This is a phenomenal article on the potential of different sorts of testing, and the ways that we are limited by demands for sensitivity and specificity. There's one important thing

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Last week, 2.4 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the 16th week in a row that unemployment claims have been more than twice the *worst* week of the

Anil

anilsaidso

Bitcoin is the sponge with unlimited absorption.Soaking up the world’s capital, protecting purchasing power. Bitcoin is a monetary hurricane. Increasing in intensity offshore, striking jurisdictions suffering from droughts of political

General Theorist

GeneralTheorist

Megan Greene and Eric Lonergan published a http://VOX.EU great piece last week making the case for dual interest rates. This is a cause I fully support, so they are pushing

Nicole Watson

Watson_N_E

Some good news in the midst of the doom-scrolling: new paper with @GescheHuebner and @mikefsway is now online #OpenAccess @BuildingsCities Improving energy research practices: guidance for transparency, reproducibility and

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

This morning DOL released some of the first economic data of the Biden presidency—last week's initial unemployment insurance claims (okay, *half* of last week was in the Biden presidency). What

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Here we go again. Last week, 2 million workers applied for unemployment insurance (UI). Breaking that down: 1.2 million applied for regular state UI (not seasonally adjusted), and 830,000 applied

BVDDY

BvddyCorleone

I finally gave this episode a listen. Great and provocative interview as always from @ErikSTownsend.Below I’ll share some general comments on MMT along with some thoughts that came to mind

ProPublica

propublica

1/ Once you accept that climate change is *already* making large parts of the United States nearly uninhabitable, the future looks like this: With time, the bottom half of the

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

There was an armed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol yesterday in which the police were complicit in a way that has everything to do with structural racism. And that is

Brian Asquith

basquith827

Just finished reading @mattyglesias's take on superstar cities, remote work, and where college-educated professionals go next. Like with @Noahpinion's take, I've got some pushback/questions. First off, I think some context

Kevin Carmichael

CarmichaelKevin

The Financial Post has had better years in its 113-year history than this one. I'm not talking abut covid, although it affected everyone in her/his own way. I'm talking about

Bank of Jamaica

CentralBankJA

We’re baaack!#BOJSpeaks#FinanceTwitterJA 2. Yes, it’s been a minute since our last inflation thread, there’s a lot to catch up on, and we’re sorry it’s been so long, but oh,

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