#Economic

Bank of Uganda

BOU_Official

Thread: Monetary Policy Statement for April 2020Bank of Uganda (BoU) has in the April 2020 Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting reduced the Central Bank Rate (CBR) by 1 percentage point

Spirited Sparrow

RachelBock9

Americans sold out their rural towns to boom the Chinese economy. None of it was purposeful on the average Americans part. But, our desire to consume cheap products decimated our

Simon Rosenberg

SimonWDC

A thread of some recent work. Our national narrative hasn't yet come to terms with Trump's unprecedented betrayal of the country. No American President has ever challenged the fundamental rationale

Al Jazeera English

AJEnglish

“It is a catastrophe, I’ve never seen something like that.” Lebanon is in a state of emergency following a massive explosion in Beirut that killed at least 100 people and

Neil Waggoner

NeilWaggoner

In 2020, the OVEC coal plants emitted:10,309,178 tons of CO219,960,610 lbs of NOx11,686,881 lbs of SO2We Ohioans pay more on our electric bills EVERY SINGLE MONTH for this economic/public health/environmental

Daniel Estrin

DanielEstrin

The @WFP got the Nobel Peace Prize. The US is the WFP’s biggest donor. But there's one WFP program that Trump Admin stopped funding: food to Palestinians. WFP stopped giving

Jared Bernstein

econjared

The econ fiction the R's are telling is based on these falsehoods:--Trump inherited an awful economy and fixed it;--He didn't bungle the virus (what virus??) so pay no attention to

Jamil Toyo

jamiltoyo

Yup. We need to go beyond AC as a cooling method. It is bad for the environment & expensive. A lot of the answer lies in returning to traditional methods

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

A couple of reflections on this tweet by Joanna, which seems to me to distil two key planks of the nationalist case.https://twitter.com/joannaccherry/status/1299217064725487617 The central point made in the article is

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Updates on #COVID19 SerologyAntibody survey data is increasing [All have limitations: hotspots are not representative, some tests may have false positives]However, LA, Boston, NYC, Santa Clara, Netherlands, ..., now evidence

“Privileged” Mikey 🚛📸📹

courier_michael

First of all I’m not at all shocked by these findings at all, are people that far removed from reality of what’s going on right now? Hello?!? We are in

Justin Karter

justinkarter

OK, I can't stop thinking about @SocialDilemma_ and @shoshanazuboff's #SurveillanceCapitalism. Here are some more thoughts and provocations for those interested in debating and discussing these issues. 1/17 We live in

nine𝕥𝕖𝕖n times*

_spill_the_tee_

How PL sides negotiate transfers:1. LIVERPOOL:"He's priced at £45 million and has 5 years remaining on his contract. You're not willing to accept £5 million so we will wait for

Future Nexus

futurenex_us

It’s 2021 and suddenly all of our economic, social, and environmental priorities are framed as infrastructure investment. There’s a good reason.Infrastructure=the structure below. Our policy ideas are aiming for America’s

Peter ⚒ Spina

goldseek

Shame every and all climate change believers today, on #blackfriday. If they even dare engage in climate changing consumerism, they should be labeled traitors and their goods should be redistributed

David M. Perry

Lollardfish

Many excellent pieces here. The @CNNOpinion page is filled with great writers and also, sometimes, me. In my work this week I wrote about prioritizing schools over bars and restaurants,