April 13, 2021
@MatthewEGoldman @paulkrugman Yup. Which is fair enough. But it is messed up that politics requires you to dress it up in nonsense economics.
@MatthewEGoldman @paulkrugman Yup. Which is fair enough. But it is messed up that politics requires you to dress it up in nonsense economics.
@policytensor @DanielaGabor @tedfertik @JWMason1 The EU is a telling example of a “Treaty-constrained” entity that uses multiplier logics all the time to generate scale. Of course you “could change the treaty”. But no one wants to touch that.
@tedfertik @JWMason1 @DanielaGabor I had another look at the accelerator passages in the AJP “fact sheet” and I fear that we are reading too much into it in seeing it as a stealth climate bank. It is buried deep, quite unlike the giant Fed “backstop” in CARES. @policytensor @70sBachchan
Relief plan persuaded many of us that something had really shifted in Dem thinking about economic policy and I stand by that. The tax element of Jobs Plan can be squared with social justice agenda. But what is this this sub-cameralist thinking about “permanently paying for” AJP? twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/st…
The White House logic on funding Jobs Plan seems entirely wrong headed. Long term investment should be debt funded and will pay for itself. It should be sized according to the task at hand not what tax increases you can get through Congress. Bizarre! twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/st…
“Amtrak may still be decades away from true high-speed rail” Biden’s AJP talks a good game but is miles away from actually delivering a transformative rail passenger agenda. businessinsider.com/amtrak-80-bill… https://t.co/1NtmKB8thT
Approval of Biden’s handling of virus crisis is dominated by partisanship. Independents are the only group to be modestly swayed in a favorable direction by remarkable vaccine rollout. projects.fivethirtyeight.com/coronavirus-po… https://t.co/b0yPmI1itt
RT @UrbanFoxxxx: Incredible images of the fires lit by French winemakers this past week to fight off the unexpected late spring frost, and…
Looking for nice “dual circulation” graphics? This is pretty good. twitter.com/yicaichina/sta…
Official use of the term threatcasting is attributed to Brian David Johnson in a 2014 Gazette article “Drones, smart hydrants considered by experts looking at future of firefighting.” Thank you wikipedia indeed! H/t @deepwatrcreatur gazette.com/military/drone…
Just came across the term “threat casting”. Can anyone enlighten me. Sounds kinda interesting but weird.
RT @yuanyi_z: The first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947 featured a session on "Modern Historiography and Political Education",…
RT @pathtopraxis: Great overview from @adam_tooze on the sentimental education of two technocrats whose task is now to bury the policy cons…
RT @UrbanFoxxxx: Maunsell anti-aircraft forts for use in the Mersey Estuary under construction at Bromborough Dock, 1942 (the Thames Estuar…
RT @aut0mob: #OTD 60 yrs ago #YuriGagarin ☭ became the first human to journey into outer space🚀 That Soviet pilot and cosmonaut was fascina…
RT @LorenzoTheCat: Feel Good Photo of the Day—this woman adopted this 20-year-old cat from a shelter because she didn't want him to spend…
RT @olgatuleninova: Robert Henri (1865 – 1929) American painter, art teacher, and mentor to the group of painters, known as the Ash-can Sch…
RT @mark4harrison: John Williamson, who has died, was a professor of @warwickecon @warwicknewsroom before joining @PIIE in 1981. At the end…
RT @kenjiyeah: Mazda Cosmo Sports nosweb.jp/articles/detai… via: nosweb.jp https://t.co/StYTuiPTIZ
RT @Holger_Nehring: @JobbingLeftieH @adam_tooze There was a good exhibition on Lindlay and his influence in Hamburg and beyond in Hamburg i…
RT @JobbingLeftieH: @adam_tooze The Hamburg sewers were designed by William Lindley – a British sanitary engineer whose sons (one also Will…
@zeithistoriker @cornelban73 @davies_will @BaskinJon @psychicyogamat @TPpodcast_ Nope. I just thought your point about the shifting focus of critique from the 1970s to the 1990s had purchase on a broader shift.
In the mid ‘thirties, Europe’s largest organic herb farm was established some 16 km north-west of Munich at the Dachau concentration camp. Himmler indulged his interest in biodynamic agriculture on the backs of hundreds of camp inmates. triumphofthewill.info/the-herb-garde… https://t.co/NApzp6AOnt
Is “spruce-death” caused by artillery? In 1915 Dr Rubner observed a strange dying off of spruce trees in the St Mihiel salient (sic). He attributed it to damage from shrapnel. An academic debate ensued in the pages of the Bavarian botanical journal. zobodat.at/pdf/mitt-bayer… https://t.co/THn7T2MiHD
Late-nineteenth-century cities invested heavily in sanitary infrastructures, and they were proud of it. As this engraving shows, the city of Hamburg invited notables to take boat rides through its sewers. From Uekötter The Greenest Nation? https://t.co/K89Ync4RNn
Manchester and Salford Noxious Vapors Abatement Association was set up in 1876 Surely one of the best names for an association ever! https://t.co/mjGn0oQK4M
RT @jimfarley98: While we’re pleased the ITC ruling makes way for @Ford to bring to market our groundbreaking electric F-150, a voluntary s…
Laufenburg Rapids which became a cause celebre for early environmental movement in Germany around 1907. Freiburg notables, and Max Weber and Werner Sombart were involved. The power station was built regardless. https://t.co/D8b8dmnZHV
RT @_John_Handel: Please come if you can! If you can’t, let me know and I’d be happy to share the paper twitter.com/financialhist/…
@alex_callinicos The real problem I see is that the investment program they have proposed is just FAR too small. Not comparable to the crisis response in its radicalism.
Unless you want to argue that Sweden would, counterfactually, have had an even worse recession in 2021 than the one it actually experienced, the “Swedish COVID policy” tradeoffs are looking pretty bad right now! @johnauthers h/t @SoberLook bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… https://t.co/flMIo1y53s
Lest anyone imagine that Mario Draghi’s honeymoon would be long lasting … His net favorables have halved since Feb. Something similar happened to Monti. @MorningConsult thedailyshot.com/2021/04/09/us-… https://t.co/WEqUGvEh9R
How big was impact of deunionization on US wages? According to @EconomicPolicy men would have avoided fall in real hourly wages 1979-2017. Overall wages 7.9% higher. They don’t break women out because deunionization much smaller? @tedfertik @policytensor epi.org/publication/er… https://t.co/uqnTkx2Ls6
Bank of America declares that investors need to brace for a future with more powerful trade unions. The evidence? Well there’s what might be a turning point in 2020 and could it really go any lower? thedailyshot.com/2021/04/09/us-… https://t.co/G92ZfUHFbH
If I read this graph correctly the US paid out just under $550 bn in unemployment insurance benefits in 2020. Via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2021/04/09/us-… https://t.co/t379jEA79O
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