#Economist

Nadim Shehadi

Confusezeus

Very useful background to the "negligence" that caused the tragedy in Lebanon by @glcarlstrom of @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2020/08/06/its-unbelievable-negligence-even-on-the-scale-of-the-perennially-negligen

scott cunningham

causalinf

I’m on a slack channel with @agoodmanbacon , @pedro, and @Andrew___Baker . My contribution is to bring the mean intelligence down on there. But I wanted to say one thing

MayaB.The Environmentalist

ignisfatuus1110

During the time of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government, a famous company, Enron, planned to install a factory in Dabhol, Maharashtra.But, it could not happen, due to the resistance of

Intelligence Squared U.S.

IQ2US

How much does the national debt actually matter? A thread from our upcoming debaters –– with @ibmwatson @bloombergtv https://smarturl.it/WatsonSubmission "To lift America out of its current economic crisis, Congress does

B. Allen-Ebrahimian

BethanyAllenEbr

A couple of weeks ago, an employee of a CCP-run think tank asked me who my sources were.I gave him the names of two characters from the Simpsons.Seemingly impressed, he

Quantian

quantian1

Since she’s now officially the Main Character on here today, I’m amazed at how perfect an avatar this lady is for Econ Brain. Between her Narcan paper and her Ban

Economissive

Economissive

Grant Robertson today asked the Reserve Bank to factor in house prices.What that means is that the Govt has asked the Reserve Bank to increase unemployment to lower house prices.Terrible

Baker Street Herald #W3CU

bakerstherald

Sep 16th 2007 conference in BucharestGrover Norquist, Dr Andrei Illarianov (Putins ex Chief Economist), Matthew Elliott, Barbara Kolm & Jose Pinera (ex minister for Labor & Social Security for Augusto

Silvia Secchi

ProfSecchi

Some thoughts on the persistence of US ag tropes clearly debunked by the science and the evidence - specifically the push for "carbon farming", "feeding the world", "corn ethanol". Many

Kate Taggart

qkate

This is terrible, and I fear is one story among increasingly many.Time for one of my esoteric rants, I see An uncomfortable fact about modern American academia is that we

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

Dr. Tammy Schirle 🍺

tammyschirle

Was thinking about the sheer size of this COVID-19 deficit this morning. $343B is a big number.https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/services/publications/economic-fiscal-snapshot.htmlPerspective: I’m an economist, & also a mom

Igho Precious🌚

_McOatt

Yo, come see this. What is Forex?Forex is Foreign Exchange, a decentralized market where commodities are sold. By decentralized I mean, nobody controls the market like a Central Bank or

aaron vansintjan🐙

a_vansi

A lot of people know Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom from her work on the commons. But many might not know that some of her first research in the 1970s

Emma Kennedy💙

EmmaKennedy

The govt’s Agriculture Bill1. Ditches British Animal Welfare standards2. Will mean UK is flooded with cheap low quality food.3. Will put UK farms at huge disadvantage4. Uk will not be

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

Pliny the Younger was invited to a dinner party in Rome in 97-8 AD. He then wrote a letter to tell his friend Avitus all about it:"It would be a

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