#Populist

I think I'm more pro-industrial policy than most economists, but this is a steaming pile of garbage: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/erin-o-toole-pnp-interview-1.5716115?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar #cdnecon #cdnpoli #econtwitter To elabora
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1/12 - “Sanna Marin, Finland’s prime minister [the country with the lowest number of cases in the EU] said that the public across Europe could blame governments for closing economies
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Britain was a much more equal society before Thatcher than it has been at any time since.In this short THREAD, I just want to try and quickly take stock of
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In the following thread - like I used to do in a previous life - I'll try to explain what's going on politically in #Italy (not an easy task, tbh)
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2020 was an eventful year for New Zealand's far-right, and shows we still have a lot of work to do countering racism and preventing further acts of terrorism. Heres a
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Chinese loans are just 10.6% and not growing of the total foreign loans taken by Sri Lanka over the years and most are concessionary and given at a low interest
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The CPC would have you believe that universities are hotbeds of radical socialism. They are not. Conservatives simply don't like that science and empirical evidence often prove they are wrong,
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As a way to think about the stakes in the AI debate:A language model like GPT-3, which trains on a corpus of text & produces new text in response to
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How to make Universal Basic Income (UBI) work?(a short thread) 1/ UBI is the idea that all humans deserve a basic income just for existing.It’s getting popular over time because
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WAKE-UP YOUNG AMERICA!Because they’re coming for you.All the rote bullshit rhetoric you’re reading on Twitter today from branded activists, politicians and pundits is just more of the same pearl clutching
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These are the 12 tactics of the Populist's Playbook. Are you teaching your children the political vocabulary they will need to become immune? #BLM #ProtestUSA #MAGA #Elefrion2020 (sound on) Promising
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I don’t blame anyone for leaving the Labour Party at the moment. It’s ‘under new management’ indeed—meet the new boss, same as the old boss. We’re self-evidently under enemy occupation
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The Hagia Sophia has been in the news lately. What is Hagia Sophia and why is it significant? Hagia Sophia (Greek), known in Turkish as Ayasofya, in Latin as Sancta
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It's funny to see people talk about Michael Lind as conservative or right-wing populist or whatever when he is obviously center-left under any definition that would be commonly understood just
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New from me this morning @FPRI "Election 2020: Russia Cares, China Doesn't" - 1 year into #FIE2020 project I offer an updated assessment on what we've observed regarding foreign interference
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I hold no candle for anyone in the various second referendum campaigns, but I feel I must knock on the head the notion that a second confirmatory referendum would be
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