#Fiscal

Why does #yeg have more debt per person compared to other cities?It's not a simple answer but we can start answering that question by going back to 2005 when the
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I was asked recently is Black men drawn to Trumps policies or away from Democrats attitudes? I have been pondering this question all day. I have not drawn any conclusions
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Big day at BART today. The board will get an update on plan to hire social workers instead of filling vacant police officer positions to deal with social issues, a
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Care to find out just how BLM is tied to Occupy Wall Street, rich oil barons, Walnut Sauce Tom Steyer, the Clintons, Obama, the fucking Sandanistas and just about every
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A THREAD: For the past few weeks HBCUs have been mentioned by folks with little to no understanding of them, as a proxy for the President's widespread support of African
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Why the practice of dietetics MUST be political. A thread... As RDs, there's a lot we disagree on, but we all entered the field because we believe food can be
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MMT is a state theory of money, but what is needed now, as the title of my essay suggests, is a money theory of the state: how money power both
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Looking back, in 2020 I had an opportunity to speak with the authors of some of my favorite books, mostly through the Ideas of India podcast. Thread on twelve books
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The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program has helped millions of Americans who are left out of the normal unemployment system, and has helped keep the economy from suffering even worse damage.It
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With apologies for the length of this tweet stream.When economists talk about elasticity is typically with respect to supply and demand and how both change based on price. I think
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As Argentina’s debt saga drags on, some remarks on the macroeconomic (rather than legal) process hopefully won’t distract minds too much from agreeing a deal.Indeed, the macroeconomics of the restructuring
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Jason Kenney says Albertans are in for a ‘fiscal reckoning’.The NDP Deficit, projected at $6,700,000,000, grew to $12,100,000,000 pre-pandemic under his government and is currently projected at $24,200,000,000. Lower revenue
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Beware of the Jan employment report. We could be surprised on the *UPSIDE* due to how the seasonal adjustment process works. Jan is the worst month of the year for
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Global Equity Positioning Thread 1/5$SPX $ACWI $EEM $EFAUS equity % in MSCI All World Index:- 59%, an ATH & well > DotComUS GDP as % of world:- 24%Global investors are
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1/6Debt does matter, as Sharma argues here, but it matters because balance sheet structures matter. Fragile balance sheets limit operational flexibility, increase uncertainty, exacerbate volatility, and set off a wide
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In conclusion, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Due to Apartheid, inequality in SA was unusually high, however from 1999 it rose sharply reaching the highest
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