RT @ProfPaulPoast
Which questions about international politics can you actually answer using large-N data?
The big ones.
That's what Bear Braumoeller taught us.
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Director, Industrial Policy & Trade @RooseveltInst @RooseveltFWD. Teach @johnshopkins. Political scientist of economic governance/ transition/ democracy. PhD.
RT @mtkonczal
Note this isn't just a solid lump of labor bidding up its price - the pool of employed is expanding rapidly.
You should be happy that prime-age 25-54 employment-to-population is the highest its been in ~22 years. But also celebrate black and young people are leading this. /4
Key historical point.
We started a constitutional renovation project in the 1860s. Time to finish it.
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RT @ddayen
The debt ceiling is a problem, but UCLA law professor Jonathan Zasloff has a solution.
Sue Janet Yellen.
It could work!
Read on in our latest edition of X-Date:
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-05-04-x-date-debt-ceiling-janet-yellen/
https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1654111179554562048
Love this detail on what would have happened to David had he brought these ideas up during the Clinton administration.
Eric picks up on a key point: we are not longer in the Kicking Away the Ladder era, to paraphrase the development economist Ha-Joon Chang, or a zero sum world economically.
Rather, Biden @JakeSullivan46 @jennifermharris have outlined a new internationalism of public investment.
RT @SecGranholm
Thanks to @potus, the United States is undergoing a clean energy investment boom — propelling our goals to tackle the climate crisis more than any prior president.
Looking to the future means working with resolve in the NOW. And we're not done yet.
RT @AlexThomp
New digital ad from Biden/DNC that has a lot more COVID/economy than the announcement and first ads released last week.
New digital ad from Biden/DNC that has a lot more COVID/economy than the announcement and first ads released last week.
Mapping levels of concentration of EV supply chains in China.
Compare this to 13-country OPEC, which controls *only* 40 percent of global petroleum market.
China controls far more than that in key EV materials.