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RokoMijicUK

Will it matter who wins the #Election2020 in the USA?My take is that it won't.Trump winning in 2016 mattered as a sort of "glass-ceiling shattering event" for people defying the

Adam Ozimek

ModeledBehavior

New report alert: I have a new report at Upwork checking in on remote work based on a survey of 1,000 hiring managers. A few results to follow in this

The Economist

TheEconomist

The first fully-tested covid-19 vaccine has been authorised for use in Britain. How did the country's regulator approve the Pfizer-BioNTech jab so quickly? A bumper thread (1/10) https://econ.st/36v2q3l Britain's

SandeepParekh

SandeepParekh

Letter from the stock markets to the sceptics: "I may be high, but I'm not crazy." Caution, this thread may not age well, but I didn't really write it :).

Gady Epstein

gadyepstein

[THREAD] I wrote about China's machinations to block Fiji from the presidency of the UN Human Rights Council. Fiji still seems likely to get it, but it's the latest case

Pastor Rich, PhE.

prichaddae

If you're an educated Christian, learn to respond intellectually when you have to.There're times you don't need to quote a scripture to respond to some 'silly' questions.You went to school

Andrew Busch

abusch

Unless you haven’t be paying attention or haven’t read our research on Biden over the last 12 months, the full Biden economic team represents a clear path towards carbon pricing

Alexander

alexanderrusso

Slight return – Why America has done such a poor job of keeping schools openhttps://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/01/19/why-america-has-done-such-a-poor-job-of-keeping-schools-open The tagline says it all:"How a cocktail of kn

Serenity “Free Range Princess” Dee

sapphixy

I've told this story before, but I once talked to an economist who, when she testified before Congress, used the phrase "market failure" and was immediately interrupted by an apoplectic

The Economist

TheEconomist

Which races to watch, the role of postal votes and what happens if Donald Trump declares victory prematurely—our overview for election night. THREAD (1/11) https://econ.st/2HQyJQL The state that matters most

Alexander

alexanderrusso

For me, school reopening is the largest/most urgent K-12 education topic right now. So I find it strange that it's not being covered closely & that some obvious questions aren't

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/9While debt-to-GDP ratios already have a limited but very misunderstood use, it seems economists are finding bright new ways of misunderstanding them. Now we say that when nominal interest rates

David Doney

David_Charts

THREAD: The economy performs far better under Democratic Presidents, in terms of jobs, GDP, stock market, and lower deficits. Let's explore the history since WW2 in charts. First, job creation

The Economist

TheEconomist

You use artificial intelligence (AI) every day, mostly without noticing. It's how you're reading this tweet. But is today's AI technology really that world-changing? Thread (1/10) https://econ.trib.al/aECLbIO In recent

Doctora Malka Older

m_older

Population is power, borders are arbitrary, and citizenship is an invented category with invented rules that can change at any time. #Infomocracy #Microdemocracy https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1319575809632292864 Imagine if US followed

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

Offered as an illustration of the limits of "fundamentals"-based election models:The "Time for Change model", as specified here, predicts that Trump will lose the popular vote by ~36 points (not

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