#Inflation

Matteo Maggiori

m_maggiori

A return to the gold standard is a terrible idea. Why would one want as a monetary policy objective to stabilize the price of a useless metal? As opposed to

carter

_carter

I've seen a lot of tweets about minimum wage recently, but no one is mentioning a very important term known as "buying power". So let's start with 1970's minimum wage

Reed Hundt

rehundt

1/Zach has the history right (again). I doubt the current political leadership read the book where Summers et al explained what they did, unless they look at borrowed copies. Here

natural money

naturalmoneybtc

A THREAD on how I see (in/de)flation, who helped in shaping that view and how seemingly divergent narratives can be valid and coexist within a dynamic overall regime. Jeff Snyder

Martin Castellano

mcastellano44

“Fear of floating” has been a longstanding EM challenge that several LatAm economies have attempted to overcome. How have countries fared so far in terms of letting the exchange rate

Eric Crampton

EricCrampton

New Zealand has a longstanding housing shortage. It's a giant mess, but fundamentally it comes down to constraints against getting more housing built. The current price inflation is the intersection

Paul Roundy

PaulRoundy1

My first job on the neighbor's farm was working in the scalehouse when I was 12. When I was 13, I started moving irrigation pipe for another neighbor. The half-mile

Paul Holland

Paul_Hol1000

THREAD Dying of Money. Lessons on inflation. The beginning was in the summer of 1914, a day or two before World War I opened, when Germany abandoned its gold standard.(the

Dr. Rob Davidson #WearAMask

DrRobDavidson

As an ER doc in a #pandemic, I've been called an “essential” worker. Same for baggers at grocery stores, bus drivers & cleaning crews. But as the virus rages &

Richard Murphy

RichardJMurphy

I keep hearing people complain that the ‘mainstream media’ does not understand economics and that we’re talked down to as if everything must be explained as if the economy is

Rajesh Mahapatra | ରାଜେଶ ମହାପାତ୍ର

rajeshmahapatra

A #thread of questions to the great Indian middle class. RT if you like.Q1. Hello Middle Class: Between the time #AchheDin was promised in 2014 and now, what has happened

Somesh Jha

someshjha7

Another day, another hidden NSO (earlier known as NSSO) survey, another scoop.Consumer spending fell for the first time in more than four decades in 2017-18.Consumer spending had last declined during

Jason Nelford

JasonNelford

#BTC may be a valuable asset going forward, but I'm becoming more skeptical. The more I think about money, the more I see it as inextricable from credit. I'm

Some great data points on #Bitcoin in @APompliano's newsletter today:1. Just over 88% of all 21 million Bitcoin have been issued2. Bitcoin’s 24 hour settlement volume is just under

Openly Black Mikki Kendall

Karnythia

We do know that student loan forgiveness benefits skilled trade workers too right? A lot of working class people have student loan debt so...please stop ignoring their needs to insist

David Hundeyin

DavidHundeyin

In 2001, @A_Oshiomhole opposed opening the telecom market to MTN and Econet, saying that it would make telephone access too expensive for Nigerians. He wanted the government to sink more

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