#Consumption

Eric Basmajian

EPBResearch

Quick Breakdown of the GDP Report: Nominal GDP growth increased to -1.2% on a year over year basis. This increase in nominal growth is clearly very expected. 1/ Real GDP

Queen City Nerve

queencitynerve

BREAKING: Gov. Cooper’s E.O 183 allows private bars, private clubs, restaurants and hotels to sell mixed beverages to-go in the state of North Carolina beginning tonight at 5 p.m. through

Colin Angus

VictimOfMaths

The @PortmanGroup have commissioned YouGov to conduct a survey of alcohol consumption in the UK during lockdown.Sadly they don't tend to publish the detailed results (as other organisations often do)

Giulio Mattioli

giulio_mattioli

You want to get a sense of how difficult transport is for climate mitigation? Go no further than this report. A THREAD with lots of graphshttps://twitter.com/giulio_mattioli/status/1327172802043125760 Transport is by far

Pst. Gbenro

gbenro

Power consumption #Thread. If you have an old window unit AC. Just pack out and leave the house for the AC. That's who you are working for now. A water

P. D. Mangan Health & Fitness Maximalist 🇺🇸

Mangan150

Lots of people are talking about this study which "showed" an association between eggs and diabetes.It's only epidemiology, and not good epidemiology either.Here's why you should ignore it1/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/scie

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

Excellent thread.Stunning magnitudes: spending by unemployed increased about 25% relative to the consumption of the employed.If we had a stable program (not the on-off-on one we had) what would we

Tinashe M

baba_nyenyedzi

1/Zimbabwe Economy remittances paradoxThe paradox can be stated as thus; The single most influential variable in the Zim economy is diaspora remittances, yet it’s the least researched, misunderstood & almost

Stu Donovan

StuartBDonovan

1/4 This is not exactly my field and the answer will depend on how you define "sustainability". That said, here's a brief thread discussing two decent studies that consider the

Rosalind Readhead 🌍

Privatecarfree

Thread/ It has been difficult to pin down our lifetime individual remaining carbon budget to remain below 1.5C. Partly because there is some disagreement in the scientific literature; between 16-75

Jason Hickel

jasonhickel

Here's more on the new mitigation scenario for 1.5C. How does it work? What would society look like? Are we willing to do what's required to stop climate breakdown? See

Eric Basmajian

EPBResearch

I have been discussing the trends in inflation lately. Today's report showed more of the same. Inflation is coming from the industrial upturn, concentrated in the goods sector while the

Liam Denning

liamdenning

When electric vehicles rule, where does the power come from? The answer is surprising. Today's piece is a graphics-fest JV with @hecharts https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-opinion-renewables-will-power-future-of-us-

Anirudha Dutta

DuttaAnirudha

Two recent papers based on CPHS data of @_CMIE by Rosa Abraham at @azimpremjiuniv and Maurizio Bussolo of @WorldBank throw light on employment trajectory and consumption trends during the pandemic

Eric Basmajian

EPBResearch

Consensus continues to conflate the inflation story, mixing and matching long-term and short-term charts to fit what is generally a secular inflation narrative. Here are my two cents to make

Jeremy Horpedahl 🍞

jmhorp

The -32.9% GDP number will grab the headlines. But remember this is "seasonally adjusted at annual rate."We can convert that to a quarterly rate of -9.5%, but here's another number

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