Best of #econtwitter - Week of April 20, 2025: good tweets

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Good tweets

The exceedingly rare case of a good long tweet:

^the thread continues!

^note the caveats about using OEWS data for timeseries comparisons

^“you see this large gap in the UK in business investment, especially ICT, showing up before productivity gap which really opens up after 2008. That’s the source of UK economic weaknesses”

^direct blog link

^discussion

Public goods

Charts

Fin

^💀