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In which I sit down and talk to the great @ojblanchard1 about inflation, supply and demand, interest rates, profits, and more!
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Researchers have known for decades that lead poisoning damages brains and worsens crime, but millions of Americans still drink contaminated water every day. Hereβs how we can fix that.
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These 10 economic criteria show why Atlanta's is the US's top city trib.al/QfQBi7I
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Former U.S. President Barack βBasedβ Obama on zoning and NIMBYism: βthe most liberal communities in the country arenβt that liberal when it comes to affordable housingβ
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Gay people very very very VERY obviously won rights by coming out and getting their families and neighbors to come around on gay issues bc they actually knew a gay person. It was like integration on turbo mode. Thatβs what shifted public opinion.
Did gay people ultimately win rights through the Stonewall riots, or through a political alliance with the Democratic Party, starting at the local level in liberal cities and eventually succeeding nationally?
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A lot of voters are switching from the Democrats to the Republicans.
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Republicans and Democrats should agree to pack the Court together. If there were 27 justices instead of 9, each single justice would have less importance, and so there would be fewer high-stakes partisan battles over appointments going forward.
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I've been saying "pack the Court", but the truth is that the Dems will almost certainly not have the votes to do this unilaterally anytime soon. So both parties should agree to pack the Court going forward, to make justice appointments less of a flashpoint.
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Even if Dems lose these midterms because of inflation, Dobbs has given Dems a real, popular, substantive cause that they'll be able to organize around for decades.
Vague statements can be mystifying. But the bigger picture is that a groundswell against the Dobbs decision is pushing elected Dems to more focused stands. Friendly pressure is already getting the job done. Just needs to be sustained and intensified.
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Guy who doesn't have a problem with Trump's attempt to overturn a free and fair election but who is terrified at the prospect of going back to the filibuster rules of 1960
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All of this is just an incredibly expensive and risky way to bet on Bitcoin's price going up
This is incredible. A centralized yield service, CoinFLEX, gave a $47m uncollateralized loan to someone who can't pay it right now. To fund other customers' withdrawals, they are now turning his debt into a token and selling it to people, offering 20% APY on it. Amazingly degen.
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@ojblanchard1 : "weβre not yet in danger of a regime shift in inflation expectations; that would take several years; a 3% is a better long-term inflation target than 2%. if we get down to 3%, there will not be much appetite to force #inflation even lower"
In which I sit down and talk to the great @ojblanchard1 about inflation, supply and demand, interest rates, profits, and more!
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"Contrary to lay expectations, people who have successfully achieved upward social mobility may, in fact, be less sensitive to the plight of the poor than those born into privilege." journals.sagepub.com/doi/fulβ¦
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Enjoyed this @palladiummag piece on why we canβt build anymore. This closely aligns with things we have found in our ongoing transit costs work. The major issues re: diminished in-house capacity and nimbyism have slowed schedules and increased costs
palladiummag.com/2022/06/09/β¦
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