#Inflation

CryptoMathemagician

cmathemagician

Imagine you were born in 1900.When you're 14, World War I begins and ends when you're 18 with 22 million dead.Soon after a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu, appears, killing

Conner Brrrrrown

_ConnerBrown_

Money printer go Brrr is a great meme, but I think there’s a lot of misconceptions about the Federal Reserve and it’s ability to print money.While the Fed is certainly

Roaring Rudy Havenstein

RudyHavenstein

Think about how absurd this is. Our cost of living not rising faster than it already is is "one of the major challenges of our time."Screw you, Jerome. @federalreserve https://twitter.com/economics/status/1109568998210002944

Beatrice Cherrier

Undercoverhist

1/ How do economics ideas affect policy-makers? A few thoughts on Minneapolis Fed presidents and macroeconomists in the 1960s to 1980s (trying to sort out some material, so messy, possible

travis

TravisShreffler

Lemme illustrate the fallacy of "minimum wage increases makes costs go up too much" for you the only way I know how, using a universally understood metric:The Taco Bell soft

Dr Lindsay 'Difficult Woman' Tedds🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺

LindsayTedds

One of my BC BI panel members rightfully takes aim at a poorly argued piece by the Fraser Institute on capital gains. J. Rhys Kesselman: Getting the facts straight on

Roger at UPshot Wealth 🚀

upshotwealth

Why are budgets helpful? Because of the yearly expense data.Forecasting “How much you need to retire?” is a lot more difficult when you’re flat out guessing.Imagine you used an app

Andreas M. Antonopoulos

aantonop

Bottom line on the FinCEN rules (as I predicted): If you try to make payments from a regulated exchange they will require additional verification and will report your transactions to

David Fisman

DFisman

R(t) by province, Feb 12. As @jm_mcgrath noted yesterday, Ontario hasn't managed to get below 0.7 previously, but we are actually there outside GTA right now, and we're at 0.75

Luis Garicano

lugaricano

Some economists advocate for the cancellation of public debt held by the @ecb. This is political madness. The cancellation has no economic rationale and would fuel hawks, while the ECB

Lili Saintcrow

lilithsaintcrow

You know what we need? Songs that aren’t about “going home” for Christmas in any way shape or form.“I Spend The Holidays With My Friends Because My ‘Family’ Treats Me

one wag

Theophite

capitalism aside, money is a mechanism to bid on what you would like the world's productive capacity to do. if there is no money in the hands of consumers, it's

Javed Hassan

javedhassan

It would be helpful if financial journalists support allegations they make against certain productive segments, of under invoicing or otherwise, with solid evidence. Casting aspersions willy nilly serves little purpose

Diamond Hand 🚀 Doge

GeoWash111

Let do some Math. I know, some people don't like math, but just bare with me.1. In the 24hrs from the opening of the #silver markets 350k contracts were bought

Opium Tales (Povești de Opiu) 🇺🇸

romanopiumtales

Communists ruled Albania from 1946-1992. During that time period, a single ruler Enver Hoxha ruled until his death in 1985Upon taking power, non-communist politicians faced either death or the labor

Jamie Merchant

pathtopraxis

In the controversy around Modern Monetary Theory, both its advocates and its critics (for the most part) take MMT at face value as a theory of money, and so go

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