Damaris Colhoun

Writer, mother, rodeo-queen at heart.

[Damaris Colhoun @damariscolhoun]

@KBAndersen I’ll be at one in ketchum ID

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Is America losing the ability to grow our own food? The data says... yes. https://t.co/U5RMCGz43L

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Hot damn

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The corporations and billionaires who run them are taking over our government.

Five major financial institutions were all under federal investigation for fraud. All five cases were just dropped by Trump and Musk.

It's now legal to cheat consumers.
https://t.co/bLoGmQJ3UG

[Damaris Colhoun @damariscolhoun]

It was really rewarding to report on this story for my local paper @IdahoMtExpress How kratom, a legal 'herbal opioid,' tore one family apart. https://t.co/D7KXnuiSUf via @IdahoMtExpress

[Damaris Colhoun @damariscolhoun]

@matthewstoller @walterkirn Children’s toys. If they don’t arrive broken they break almost immediately. Even the so-called nice brands.

[Trevor Noren @trevornoren]

Net savings across income distribution https://t.co/6QpIIT63QB

[Alec Russell @AlecuRussell]

Official triumph for @FTWeekend Our first full-on gourmet and fine wine Lunch with the FT iv since lockdown - and also some super smart exchanges on debt and the future via @RanaForoohar with Kiril Sokoloff https://t.co/EZF59tBa7f via @financialtimes

[Jonathan Masters @MastersJR]

Must Read. A virtual lunch of Russian meatballs, Brussel sprouts, soufflé, and sobering investment insights. https://t.co/DT8kQzR4cg @RanaForoohar

[Trevor Noren @trevornoren]

"The largest five stocks in the S&P 500 now account for 22% of the broad market, well beyond the peak of 2000." https://t.co/oQh2ZSQOcY

[robertklemko @RobertKlemko]

Last month was the first March without a school shooting in the United States since 2002.

[Balaji @balajis]

Movie theaters were hanging on, now finished off.

Movie production is also in remission.

So it all goes to laptops, streaming, and AI-powered video production. The virus is killing Hollywood and decentralizing movie making.

[13D Research & Strategy @WhatILearnedTW]

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[Trevor Noren @trevornoren]

>15.5m Americans work in restaurants. Of those workers, roughly 3m live in poverty. Most don’t have paid sick leave. That includes 517K McDonald’s workers, 180K Subway workers, 165K Burger King workers, 156K Pizza Hut workers, and 133K Wendy’s workers https://t.co/pgxtyGhC9f

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

1. Building a strong social welfare state and competent public health bureaucracy is now inevitable. Here's why. In China, S. Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, the key to stopping the virus, and restarting activity, is ensuring that people do voluntarily quarantining when necessary.

[Damaris Colhoun @damariscolhoun]

And tourism is in free fall.

[Trevor Noren @trevornoren]

"The U.S. hotel industry overall had about $300 billion of mortgage debt as of the third quarter of last year, up 7.8% from one year earlier and 14.2% from two years earlier" https://t.co/hic5wgY8Wp

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

Fed interest rate now:
1.55% (with market pricing in further 0.75% cut)

Fed rate before 2008 crisis:
5.25%

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

One of the most popular apps in S Korea: Corona 100m, which will alert users if they come within 100m of a location visited by someone who’s had COVID-19

https://t.co/4MU2ExTvWm

[Damaris Colhoun @damariscolhoun]

Majority of the world's solid waste is food (from our groceries, restaurants, fridges). In US, 30 mn acres, 4.2 tn gallons of water & 2 bn lbs of fertilizer are used to grow food that’s never eaten. W/ a billion hungry, it's one one of greatest mismatches of supply & demand @UBS

[Damaris Colhoun @damariscolhoun]

“'Central banks can’t come up with vaccines.' It's time to get ready for what that implies." https://t.co/Vs6d178Qmb