#Decline

Puru Saxena

saxena_puru

Bitcoin - a rising monetary tide lifts all boats With Fed buying $120b worth of bonds each month, we could be setting up for another parabolic spike. Thoughts on bitcoin

Martin Jacques

martjacques

1/7 What is the West's response to China's remarkable handling of Covid-19? The answer is simple. Ignore it. In the beginning, the UK govt included the Chinese figures at its

yung📉walken

as_a_worker

one thing we didn’t anticipate about the collapse of civilization is how tedious, lifeless and boring it is just sitting around in a grand decline waiting for the next shoe

Rievaulx posting his L’s

rievaulx_

Our ancestors treated sex with the utmost reverence, restricting it to the sacred ritual of marriage. We treat it as a commodity to be bought and sold like any other.

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

My piece in The Wire on the third national serosurvey. The headline (~21% prevalence) is probably not a major underestimate. Apparently the antibody test used was less vulnerable to missing

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Although the US is continuing to hit records for daily #COVID19 cases reported, the rate of exponential growth has slowed. Mortality is still catching up to increased case loads and

Hindu OSINT

Hindu_OSINT

Feminist women are not standing in the way of patriarchy, it's the incelic and feminist men who are taking society away from patriarchy. Once a good number of men become

David Baskin

DavidBaskinBWM

As everyone is talking about the bubble in speculative, hugely over-priced stocks, I was thinking back to the #Nortel fiasco of 20 years ago. The story is worth reviewing.Nortel became

Wealth Thinker

wealth_thinker

Let’s talk 2008 market crash Did everyone lose all their money like you are told?? Let’s look at the FACTS Short thread 1. How much did the market actually

alan drummond

alandrummond2

The impact of gun violence restraining order laws in the U.S. and firearm suicide among older adults: a longitudinal state-level analysis, 2012–2016Altaf Saadi, Kristen R. Choi, Sae Takada & Fred

Gareth van Onselen

GvanOnselen

1/12 Thread on the opposition. The latest round of by-elections suggests the same trend that has defined the opposition vote share for 24 months continues: a multitude of smaller parties

Nicola Oliver | Medical Intelligence

NicolaMedical

THREADSocial distancing measures have not only reduced transmission of SARS-CoV-2, but also of the flu as seen here in this remarkable chart. Note the absence of any ‘spike’ in the

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

Christopher Snowdon

cjsnowdon

1/ Now that countries are doing mass testing, we can see what happens when lockdowns are introduced. In France, for example, lockdown started on 30 Oct and cases peaked 8

Evan

EvanPlatinum

One of the things the new Alphabet union is mad about is that Goggle isn't doing *enough* to stop "YouTube radicalization". Silicon Valley is one of the few places on

Yeganeh Torbati

yjtorbati

Travel ban revocation EO is up: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/. It revokes EOs 13780 (travel ban 2.0), Proclamation 9645 (the v

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