#Consumption

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

As always China is trying to boost consumption with supply-side policies rather than with income support or other demand-side policies, in this case, by having Shanghai mandate increases in shopping

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1) People’s Daily is reminding everyone of Xi Jinping’s very important speech last week, in which called for “giving full play to the advantage of a huge domestic market, so

JPR007

jpr007

GLOBAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION - A PRIMERWe have hopefully all seen this wonderful diagram from LLNL showing the Flow Diagram of the world’s Energy Consumption in a very useful form full

socialite distancing.✊🏿

precioussxx

Interesting how the elements that define the new luxury consumer have become evident over the last few days. the new luxury consumer is defined by consciousness and education, these things

Eric Basmajian

EPBResearch

Congress is threading the needle in terms of timing with the latest COVID relief package. Personal income, after a massive surge, is about to fall below the pre-pandemic trendline. Some

Emery Lee is not a girl

EmeryLeeWho

The way white people in publishing try to force authors of color to write about culture is just as racist as white people forcing authors of color to only write

Lauri Myllyvirta

laurimyllyvirta

Replies to this thread just confirm how crucial it is to highlight the policies that are actually driving investment, energy and emissions in China. The news I tweeted about 2030

JT

jerryteixeira

I’ve been low carb 11 years but you don’t see me rail against carbs Why? We are fat & sick as a society because we overcome EVERYTHING except quality proteinFull

Jeanne Commault

joj_como

Here’s a thread about my first paper (I discovered today this @AEAjournals tweet!). The topic is the estimation of the elasticity of consumption to transitory shocks.https://twitter.com/AEAjournals/status/1335968447705075713 In short, I d

Bob McElrath

BobMcElrath

If you remove all the blockchain mumbo jumbo and asked "what is bitcoin" from an asset perspective, it's a way to monetize un-sellable energy. It's a way to monetize usage

Adem Tumerkan

RadicalAdem

*A fundamental problem is that the modern financial system (post-70’s) inevitably creates debt in excess amounts that doesn’t fund productive investment - but consumption or purchases of already existing assets

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

These numbers might surprise English speaking elites in very large towns, who work for MNCs, and pontificate on twitterThis is the real India.https://twitter.com/indiainpixels/status/1287663685452697602 Even in a supposedly "westernize

Coffee&Almonds 🐝 📝

Ochams_Razor

"The alcohol industry must put people before profits and stop perpetuating harmful drinking patterns," a thread of article by Profs Glenda Gray, Charles Parry and Richard Matzopoulos. In addition to

Brandon Aldae 🍎

BrandonAldae

Useless Consumption - THREAD - Has there ever been a better description of only fans?Oh, here’s one. A cucks paradise.While this post isn’t about either of those two things, I

Karan Bhasin

karanbhasin95

It is a myth that every Indian pays a tax. People highlight #GST as an example but ignore the way GST was structured. That is, it has a list of

Acharya Prashant

Prashant_Advait

There are voices - from right and left, from industrialists and politicians, and from the general public - for quick restoration of 'normal life'.What exactly is this 'normal life'?Were we

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