And if you're teaching introductory macro, and want to explain to your students the economics of the Silicon Valley Bank run, then there's a simple way to do it: Talk about a different kind of commercial paper.
[This is from the Stevenson-Wolfers textbook] #TeachEcon
No country in Europe produces more bicycles than Portugal.
How come? @marksuttonbike has a comprehensive story on the Bike Valley of Portugal 🇵🇹 around the region of Águeda.
https://t.co/GJuBxf7T0S
All the major Magnitsky Acts around the world sanction corruption with one notable exception: the EU. It makes no sense and makes a mockery of EU governance. It’s high time the EU includes corruption and gets rid of this loophole. https://t.co/KIahO5yxNV
Remembering the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie.
Curie was born #OnThisDay in 1867.
To live in one world and breath in another
Blue whales are the largest known animal to have ever lived on Earth. For perspective it’s tongue alone weighs about 4 tons which is the approx’ weight of an adult female African elephant
🎥 by @dolphindronedom
👨👩👦 O número pessoas em risco de pobreza ou exclusão social cresceu em Portugal devido ao impacto da crise pandémica, atingindo cerca de 22% da população em 2021 (valor mais elevado desde 2017). Contexto inflaccionista poderá fazer aumentar ainda mais esta percentagem.
#MaisFactos
Putin is unlikely to use nuclear weapons but could threaten their use to force major concessions from the west. The west must not give way to nuclear blackmail: unjust for Ukraine, perilous for the future.