#Fiscal

Seun Smith

seunsmith

Using the additional Jul & Aug data from the 2021 Budget presentation, my FY2020 deficit “no frills” forecast stays flat at 5.59 Tn (previously 5.62 Tn).Using the more optimistic numbers

Tom Elliott

tomselliott

The Covid relief bill lays the groundwork for a “Climate Security Advisory Council” The Covid relief bill also includes $10 million for “gender programs” in Pakistan The Covid relief bill

Ben Chu

BenChu_

Plenty to digest in the Mais lecture by @AnnelieseDodds But to pick out a few points... From an economic perspective, perhaps most interesting is the bit on "muscular" competition policy

Neil Coleman

NeilColemanSA

It seems like Treasury indeed has a lot to answer for in delaying the procurement of vaccines. In this @FinancialMail article NT is cited as asking "why waste money on

Chad Stone

ChadCBPP

Dec employment situation: jobs recovery stalled before end-of-year stimulus and relief measures were enacted. Payroll jobs down 140k (private down 95k) in Dec after 5 months of shrinking job gains;

Christian Odendahl

COdendahl

So the German ‘#debtbrake’ reform debate is over, 12 hours after it had started with the op-ed of Merkel’s chief of staff, Helge #Braun? Not so fast. /thread #Braun gave

Jacob Leibenluft

jleibenluft

Quick thread: the Trump admin has been pretty unclear about what it means by an "EO on unemployment insurance," but the main idea I've seen floated is notable in both

Arun - Eighty Twenty Investor

arun_kumar_r

The policy response to the current crisis is unprecedented in its speed and magnitude. As a result, we have asset reflation in warp speed. You can read the key takeaways

John Hayward

Doc_0

The thing that really broke up the conservative movement was the surrender on social issues - the "fiscally conservative but socially liberal" intellectual fad - followed by the utter and

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

The analogy of a country’s budget being like a household's budget is often used as an argument for austerity measures (suspiciously, only used against social programs, not programs that benefit

Brian Chappatta

BChappatta

But back to the topic at hand: wealth inequality. On an absolute basis, the wealth of the top 1% grew by almost **$6 trillion** just from March 31 through Sept.

Steven Dennis

StevenTDennis

The federal debt has jumped *$6.6 trillion* since Trump took office 3 1/2 years ago.And the GOP's fiscal hawks are suddenly back worried about the debt.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/gop-fiscal-hawks-rediscover-their

Resolution Foundation

resfoundation

With less than a week to go until the Chancellor's Sending Review, the @ONS has just published the latest public sector finances data for October, so we can see the

Ingrid M

iMusing

a partial list of some the worst Morrison government fiscal failures, from the parties which are - unquestionably and despite what every political journalist “reported” throughout the 2019 campaign -

Nick Rowe

MacRoweNick

This (the Keynesian Cross model, in which Y adjusts so that desired S = exogenous I) *used* to be the 1st lesson in Macro. It was *my* 1st lesson in

Eguiar Lizundia

Eguiar

The best part of #AntiCorruptionDay is reading all the great work so many are doing to fight corruption globally. To contribute to the knowledge-sharing, here is a thread of some

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