#Recession

Andy Verity

andyverity

As mortgage approvals hit a 13-year high in November, the lockdown month, the boom triggered by the temporary stamp duty holiday (buy now while you can still get it!) should

KaioFX 💻

LowkeyKaio

How The Economy Works [THREAD]RT if you found value.http://www.gumroad.com/peopleoverprofits The Economy - Productivity Growth- Short Term Debt Cycle- Long Term Debt Cycle Transactions An economy is the wealth and resources

Megan Messerly

meganmesserly

President Donald Trump, kicking things off here at his rally in Minden: "In 52 days from now we're going to win Nevada and we're going to win four more years

Ernie Tedeschi

ernietedeschi

Ugh. Jobs Day, December 2020 Interestingly, with the +135,000 revisions to Oct and Nov, employment was "only" down -5,000 from what we thought before. With today's -140,000 payroll read, the

Alfie Stirling

alfie_stirling

There's no doubt council tax is regressive & needs reform. But anyone genuinely interested in helping the poorest through the current crisis, more so than political positioning, doesn't start there.

Nick Szabo

NickSzabo4

Shallow safety vs. deep safety:Shallow: estimated from volatility, assumes nothing goes wrong at lower layers of the protocol stackDeep: what happens to your assets upon underlying failures? e.g. how would

Bob Greenstein

GreensteinCBPP

One key need this year is tax relief for low-wage workers who have lost earnings in 2020 because of the pandemic and recession. They risk losing some or all of

Slough for Europe 🇪🇺🎪

SloughForEU

Historically and economically illiterate.Let's take a look at what the 1920s was like in the UK - as it seems that many of the issues aren't entirely unrelated to the

Tim Bartik

TimBartik

Good piece by @rodrikdani on creating more good jobs. Key points: need to work on both labor supply side & demand side; services beat subsidies, in particular need to do

Steve Matthews

SteveMatthews12

The U.S. recovery from the coronavirus-induced recession is already leveling off and showing signs of faltering only two months into the rebound, a series of real-time economic indicators show. A

Riff Raff

RichardAOB

Imagine Labor had won the last Federal election. Then imagine:That we had the most intense bushfires in our recorded history and the PM went on holiday to Hawaii (1/10) That

Martin Barrow

MartinBarrow

While the UK faces recession, the children's homes and foster care company CareTech today announced a surge in profits and a bumper payout to shareholders https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/CTH/annual-financial-report/1477

David Chapman

davidchapman141

THREAD: Why the polls are wrong. Turnout models! The consensus across polling and punditry is very high turnout. Nate Silver predicts 62% turnout. Some polls have the percentage of likely

Heather Boushey

HBoushey

Let’s be clear: We need to provide relief to families and small- and medium-sized businesses hit hard by the closures caused by the pandemic. We must ensure relief goes to

Minesh Patel

minesh1112

Thread. Lots of discussion about a one-off payment to support people on #UniversalCredit, in place of retaining the £20 a week uplift. However, this would be challenging for three key

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today's @bopinion post is about why developing nations are in big trouble -- both from coronavirus, and from the decline of the United States.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-03/covid-19-and-declining-u-s-pose-double

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