#MARKETS

Dugin doesn’t want to destroy the West; he wants to destroy Atlanticist neoliberalism. While neoliberalist apologists claim that liberal markets are the key to prosperity based on free trade, neoliberalism
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Read various news reports on govt-farmers talks & am puzzled by 2 demands: are they really coming from farmers? Or is it traders lobby at work? 1. Since no fees/taxes
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2020 marked the year when institutions arrived (for more on this check out @RyanWatkins_ and @YoungCryptoPM 2020 BTC review) Is all this institutional money making crypto markets more efficient? A
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Especially since the global financial crisis, the efficient markets hypothesis has not been in high repute. Yet, economists implicitly rely on that hypothesis when they downplay concerns about currency manipulation.
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Lemme tell you a little about why I'm not putting much weight on prediction markets this election. The short version is that the main US market, @PredictIt, is structured in a
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I remain astonished that people read the Sunday newspapers and treat them as an accurate representation of reality. The Waltzing Matilda vignette is a classic of the genre. A telling
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(1/8) An interesting thread from @TheMarketDog on looking at current valuations of stocks versus historical precedents. They are undeniably at very high valuations. However, these valuations unfortunately do not translate
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1/6Good article on the real meaning of Chinese GDP growth figures. The article correctly points out that income inequality in China is extremely high, comparable to levels in the most
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To expand on a point in yesterdays thread. The NHS has had many approaches to change At some point this can require a new structure. The history is:1974 Hierarchy and
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Bit of a nerd thread-CMA State of UK Competition reportIMHO civil society doesn't pay enough attention to how CMA, FCA approach competition policy.It is critical because dominant approach is hugely
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Can confirm @amacker's scoop that Gary Gensler will join the Biden transition and lead its review of financial regulatory agencies I covered Gensler's tenure as CFTC chair, when he was
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Why do so many pandemics originate in southern China? It is possible to answer this question without being xenophobic or promoting conspiracy theories. It boils down to two main reasons.1.
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The main reason centrally planned economies tend to fail is that they reward failure.When countries like the USSR weren't satisfied with how a state enterprise was performing, they'd throw more
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I don't claim to know if or who broke the law in the #GameStop debacle, but the ethical defenses are obviously flawed. And the implications for efficient functioning of capital
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It's questionable whether this is true. But let's suppose it is.The only silver lining to this pandemic – and the only accomplishments of any society not in the few which
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#Conservatives are really good at marketing. The phrases 'pro-life', 'family values', and 'free markets' all sound prima facie good, but have been co-opted for malicious ends.1/ #ProLife typically means anti-abortion
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