My name is David. I'm a quasi-Canadian American interested most of all in #language, #politics, and #music. I’m concerned about privacy, so I think I’ll leave it at first-name only for now. I try to boost all introduction posts I see.
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Maybe the Fed could refrain from deliberately causing a recession then?
I don’t think people fully appreciate that high inflation in the US and the Euro area is over. We are back at 2%
Part of the high inflation perception today is measurement: instantaneous inflation in December is 2% instead of the conventional measure of 6.5%
1/9
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jan_eeckhout/status/1617478919560794112
Having left Twitter for reasons, I’m dismayed to see some of my fellow refugees posting content from Twitter. RT’s. So that, to explore the content, I would need to connect to Twitter again.
Isn’t it worth the extra trouble to find the non-Twitter version of whatever it is you’re highlighting?
That is all. Thank you for listening.
To every person who’s posting some kind of 2022 year-in-review with any version of: oh I’m so happy 2022 was the year the pandemic ended / we got to travel again / things went back to normal…
Ok, listen. First, the pandemic is not over. It’s as bad as ever. People are NOT safe unmasked, indoors, in public — they are simply brainwashed into thinking it’s safe to get COVID over & over. (The science is clear it’s not. If you “disagree”, please go look at some recent statistical data.)
Second…
Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/26/vaccine-hesitancy-measles-chickenpox-polio-flu/
2022 isn’t the year that we emerged from the pandemic.
It’s the year we chose to normalize ignoring it and leaving the most vulnerable behind.
“A bad sign: Even as Republicans openly threaten debt limit extortion next year, pessimism is mounting that Dems will disable it during the lame duck. Aides tell me they're skeptical Manchin and Sinema will do this in reconcilation, because it's "partisan." https://t.co/sghf1OAOFm”
okay here's a first non-logistical toot: independent bookstores make a third of their sales between Thanksgiving & the end of the year 💛
pls consider getting holiday gifts from local bookstores, most of which ship nationwide
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