EconAnon

Econ-twit person. Labour economist. Anon for professional reasons. Strong opinions about R. Likes when line goes up. Belgian in UK.

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@HenryJPorter @AyoCaesar Despite FCA regulation, 18 year olds (and older) can still take out arguably predatory payday loans.

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@immy_jpeg @AyoCaesar Maybe, maybe not.

"Someone in their thirties has no business having sex with a teenager, even if they're 'legal'!"

She should be more precise in her wording then.

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@Conley76 Let's put this in a comparable metric

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@iamjourjean If I don't get Louis Vuitton bag my family will starve. Thank you for sticking up for me.

[For Our Futures @foronionfutures]

“Fifty eight, out of date! Let our onions speculate!”

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

Les manifestations actuelles ne ressemblent pas à celles de 1968. Toutefois, les événements de 1968 ont été mis fin par les autorités, qui ont appelé une autre frange de la population à descendre dans la rue. Un tel scénario a peu de chances de se reproduire.

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@leap_dog French foundational event was giant act of emancipatory violence that is rooted in political consciousness so people have example to draw on. Britain tried that, was bad (Cromwell), and moved on. British political tradition is evolution and continuity.

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@MakeUSAVAT @mattyglesias Its gone from <10% of GDP to ~11% of GDP (slightly below). A 1pp of GDP increase is pretty big especially in a deteriorating fiscal environment.

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@MakeUSAVAT @mattyglesias Huh? Social security is markedly higher than pre-Pandemic in that chart, and also trending higher. Also negates other fiscal pressures like interest repayments as % of revenues which are squeezing all spending.

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@Tiger_Rider_ Kyrgyzstan is not really a Muslim country. They don't observe it at all. And the bride kidnapping thing is massively overplayed.

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@lymanstoneky @mattyglesias Also, constrained utility maximising agents are 'ick'. lol.

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@rcobooth "Ick" is not a really a substantive argument, is it.

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@crypticbugs

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@thephilippics Quite. "Control" here is a suitably ambiguous choice of phrase.

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@jessesingal AQ had about ~100 members in Sep 2001. Based off a linear extrapolation from 9/11 (n=1) if they were pound-for-pound as the US they would have killed 8,442,630 people.

These are totally robust statistics.

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

This, by @arctotherium42, is the best writing on the mass internet censorship of the 2010s I have ever seen. It is long but a must read. Thanks to @PirateWires for bringing it to my awareness.

https://t.co/TtevJF8oiK

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@Ffxcrtz @fortnighttpd Ce n'est pas vrai, fieu. 16-17 ans peut-être.

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@Muinchille @BenRamanauskas "You are aware that the Nazis modelled themselves on Britain, yes?"

How could anyone be aware of the strange sci-fi worlds that only exist solely within your own mind, Jonathan?

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@BenRamanauskas I think far worse than the neutrality, which can be pinned on wider institutional factors and SE, SW and ES too, is the way that Irish volunteers in the British forces were treated upon their return to Ireland after the War.