#Rates

1 -https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression/ 2 - Part of becoming a good forecaster is learning how to spot a trend happening. Two months ago, you looked at the data from the Southeast United
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Dividend Investing is the evolved version of Saving AccountsHere's why Saving Account Interest rates are laughableMost banks are at 0.01% with 2% being the high The average annual INFLAation Rate
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It's really just business. Gacha is gambling with attachment. It's different from pachislot, because it uses FOMO, it preys on attachment or attraction to a design. There are stories of
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Taking a short break from modelling ‘vax & relax’ strategies, I have updated my model of infections at local level (MSOA) in England, looking for any evidence of impact on
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A potential problem is looming, and the media are pursuing a new story that builds on the following chain of reasoning: 1) higher inflation is coming;2) if CBs increase interest
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Housekeeping! Very boring and annoying post about post. Due to a number of factors (Brexit, *gestures at all of it* America, capitalism in a pandemic, and a 4th price hike
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This is going to be a whole thread...You cannot be anti-racist and still Anti-Native. Period. And Erasure is not only Anti-Native, it's the last stage of genocide.Natives have the lowest
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Today I'm taking you through a thread analyzing the swinging strike rate (SwStr%) metric. We will do this mainly from the pitcher's perspective. The formula for calculating SwStr% is simple
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A thread to debunk the idea that bihar has declined because of the reforms in agriculture... Agriculture and gsdp growth rates in bihar from early 1970s to 2005 were way
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No single thing besides exogenous extinction events or rapid climactic shifts have caused as much as death, human & non human, as the invention of agriculture, & that’s a fact
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I hear the TRA want to know why we’re so mad at them. Okay. Women fought our asses off to get what we have today. We couldn’t leave the house.
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No, I think it is a very misleading discussion to focus on death rates. First we have to decide what death rate to use. I think the case fatality rate
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Latest PHE weekly COVID surveillance report, covers 25th to 31st January.Cases, admissions, deaths all falling; vaccination numbers rising.Signs are good but ICU admission rates are still double that seen in
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PHE's latest COVID surveillance report now published. Covers 4th-10th Jan.Cases rates remain astonishingly high and whilst they may be turning a corner, rates are still rising among 80yrs+.Hospital admissions and
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1) Includes ‘a very large increase in interest rates’. The empirical overconfidence here is shocking.https://twitter.com/ojblanchard1/status/1358122330329927680 2) If every important empirical macro claim you have made about inflation,
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This story in the Guardian about water bills and affordability in US cities is getting attention. Because they used data that I collected as the basis for their story, I
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