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Judge Glock

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1 year

It's worth remembering that Pete Buttigieg's "cathedral mind" somehow can't comprehend that the Jones Act is bad transportation policy.

Pete Buttigieg: “I support the Jones Act”

Helping Maritime Professionals Make Informed Decisions

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The encounter of citizens of socialist countries with supermarkets actually was transformative, and it was not just Yeltsin. Socialism justified itself as a path to economic abundance for the masses, and when Western stores proved that was a lie they felt betrayed. A thread/

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@herandrews

7 months

Honestly I wish Americans wouldn’t feel so smug about the Yeltsin supermarket story. Consumer abundance had been a staple of our Cold War propaganda going back to the Kitchen Debate in 1959. Russians knew we had that advantage. But it wasn’t quite so simple. /1

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Many people are unaware of how absurdly wasteful small city transit systems are. In IN, these systems lose $18 PER PASSENGER TRIP in operating costs alone, forgetting capital costs. Don't sales tax the poor more to subsidize a wasteful system.

sam

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@mualphaxi yeah, you’re not going anywhere… in Carmel because there’s no public transit

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1 year

Why this isn’t bigger news mystifies me. US Gov lost $400 billion to fraud or waste in COVID programs. This is more than half of the direct costs of the whole Iraq war and there’s barely a peep of outrage about it from the public.

The Great Grift: How billions in COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted

An Associated Press analysis found that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent.

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11 months

The article uses “ultraconservative” several times to describe banning DEI offices and taxpayer funds for abortions and gender transitions. Whatever one thinks of them, they got majority votes in the House and usually poll majority support among public. This is just name-calling.

Kevin R Kosar

@kevinrkosar

11 months

Gosh, NYT, tell us your politics without telling us your politics.

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2 years

I'm thrilled to announce that today I start my new job as senior fellow and director of research at the @ManhattanInst . MI has an amazing group of scholars whom I've read throughout my whole career, and I feel very fortunate to start working with them.

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6 months

To those still considering investing in China: if the government has tips for corporate boards about how to explain to your investors that your CEO has been “disappeared,” you might not be dealing with a normal capitalist country.

The case of China’s vanishing chairmen

What some mysterious goings-on mean for Chinese business

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This is beyond classic. The Senate will soon consider the "Eliminate Useless Reports Act," which requires agencies to create a report of all the useless reports they are required to create.

A bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to require agencies to include a list of outdated or...

A bill in the U.S. Congress.

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7 months

I still don't understand some of those on the left or right who say that contemporary America is fundamentally corrupt or broken. The question is always, "Relative to what?" By almost any standard the US is more functional than 99.9% of other societies throughout history.

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1 year

The national conservative claim that free markets encourage amoral behavior is just confused. Economic liberty creates responsibility because it makes people responsible for the effects of their actions. Government creates irresponsibility by divorcing actions from consequences.

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11 months

Team Transitory was right insofar as all life is fleeting and transitory, and thus inflation, as with all things of this world, will eventually pass. They were wrong about the only relevant policy issue, which was whether the Fed would have to hike rates a lot to fight inflation.

Paul Krugman

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Gotta say it: the original Team Transitory proposition was that inflation would subside without the need for a big rise in unemployment. Not looking so wrong now (supercore is core ex used cars and shelter, 6m annualized) 1/

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@ishapiro @GeorgetownLaw Tragic and tough decision, but I’m sure you made the right one. Kudos for standing up to bullies.

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7 months

The argument against Effective Altruist longtermism is the same as that against all millenarian cults. Any amount of present suffering and crime is justified when everything is divided by infinity. Communism and Islamist terrorism share the same fundamental problem.

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Yes, don’t adopt the model of one of the most affordable fast growing places on Earth because it “looks like this.” The triumph of elite aesthetics over empirics.

Daniel Herriges

@dpherriges

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"Texas's housing policies" mostly look like this photo. I don't know where, or whether, people think California should be building more of this. CA should upzone a ton, reduce delays, fees, and avenues for NIMBY obstructionism. But that doesn't really amount to emulating Texas.

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Defector Victor Belenko was confused by the sight of a US supermarket and was convinced for awhile that they were set up by the CIA, because such material abundance couldn't be possible for the masses. Others thought they must just be for the US elite.

A Soviet Citizen’s Reaction to a Western Department Store - Pen 4 Rent

Stockmann, Helsinki Here’s a vignette from the time I was posted to the U.S. consulate-general in Leningrad, 1976-78. Sasha, one of our Soviet-citizen drivers,* had just been granted a passport, a...

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9 months

Looking at biggest companies in 2008 feels like a time warp. 7 of top 10 had been around since the 19th century. Today only 1. We went from mainly oil and consumer goods to mainly tech. Past 15 years have been one of greatest periods of creative destruction in business history.

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9 months

This is an insane question. You give people two options, one: "better jobs and higher pay" or two: "higher immigration" which is here explicitly contrasted with the first answer. The fact that they got even 15% to say they didn't want "better jobs" is the only surprising thing.

Oren Cass

@oren_cass

9 months

How far is today's conservatism from the stereotype of the "Country Club Republican"? By 85% to 15%, GOP voters see employers struggling to find workers to hire as a good "tight labor market," not a bad "labor shortage."

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People tend to underestimate how hard it is to move real wealth through time. Almost everything depreciates, which means that in a Robinson Crusoe-world, the expected return on most "savings" is sharply negative.

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This is correct—whether you're counting on Social Security + Medicare or a 401(k) and IRA, your standard of living when you're old is dependent on the output of future workers.

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Many pro-transit types have no limiting principle or conception of costs vs. benefits. If transit costs $100 a trip, well, we just need more of it. It's just hard to admit that sometimes, in some places, transit doesn't work. For these, we need less ideology and more calculators.

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7 months

Even today, as the always impressive @DanielDiMartino can attest, people from socialist regimes can still be shocked by American supermarkets.

Daniel Di Martino 🇺🇸🇻🇪

@DanielDiMartino

10 months

A day like today, seven years ago, I flew to America. I wanted to recreate this picture from when I was a teenager visiting, impressed by the food that wasn't available in my home of Venezuela, because it symbolizes a lot of great things about America to me. Thank you USA 🇺🇸

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To my mind, one of the most significant and counterintuitive findings of political science in recent years is that governments defy regulations more than the private sector. This has huge implications for how we structure both regs and government.

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article advances a political theory of regulation that accounts for the choices of regulators and regulated entities when both are governments. Leading theories of regulation assume that...

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1 year

Too often “power to the people” has turned into, “power to the people who love meetings.” There is no group of people I’d less like to be ruled by than the people who love meetings.

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@mattyglesias

1 year

Let the elected officials decide! That’s democracy!!

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7 months

@DanielDiMartino I actually have thought of compiling an oral history of all these stories of encounters with the supermarket since they are so common among former socialists or communists who moved West. If anyone knows people who still remember this I'm happy to hear from them! /end

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5 months

For a new years read, I'm over at @nypost explaining how the Biden administration is pushing union deals on infrastructure and trying to increase the costs of its own projects.

How team Biden is making taxpayer-funded projects even MORE pricey

The Biden administration recently looked at the absurdly high costs of government infrastructure and then promised to raise them further. On the Friday before Christmas, the government finalized a...

nypost.com

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2 months

Mind-blowing to claim that the modern "consensus" in Britain has been to build more housing. Actual house-building has trended down for decades. @WorksInProgMag

LSE British Politics and Policy

@LSEpoliticsblog

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💥New! The cross-party consensus that the way to tackle the housing crisis is to build more homes isn’t working. Instead, we should be pursuing innovative policies that make efficient use of the existing housing stock.

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Gorbachev was astounded by Canadian supermarkets during his tour there in 1983 and it helped him and the Soviet Ambassador to Canada Yakolev realize that the USSR was far behind.

Mikhail Gorbachev was raised under totalitarian rule, but he himself was anything but

Mikhail Gorbachev was firmly of the belief that his system was markedly inferior and in desperate need for democratic air

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7 months

In Svetlana Alexeivich's beautiful book "Secondhand Time" about the fall of the USSR people discuss "fainting" at the sight of supermarkets or seeing "a hundred different kinds of salami. A hundred different kinds of cheese. It was baffling."

Secondhand Time

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One writer discussed how he was quite convinced of the "deep emotions" stirred in Yeltsin since his encounters with American supermarkets after living in Moscow were an "awe-inspiring events."

Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe

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8 months

In fact, people got much more upset about inflation back in the day.

Will Stancil

@whstancil

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The thing is, WE HAVE HAD INFLATION BEFORE, and it didn’t make people this upset. If you told someone to model today’s economic approval using pre-2019 trends, they’d come to the conclusion that the public should be somewhere between pleased and thrilled.

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2 years

I'm happy to be featured in the recent documentary on homelessness that we put out with PragerU. It explains why the typical "Housing First" solutions fail, and offers some alternatives. I think this will be of interest to anyone curious about the problem.

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1 year

@mattyglesias Obama agreed. His early unpublished manuscript urged forsaking race-focused policies, and, even if one wanted to improve the plight of African-Americans specifically, to use "class as a proxy for race."

Opinion | A Lost Manuscript Shows the Fire Barack Obama Couldn’t Reveal on the Campaign Trail...

At Harvard Law, he wrote a blistering manifesto he never published. Its searing advice could help Democrats escape their current political quagmire.

www.nytimes.com

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7 months

Even video of the supermarket could be confusing for Soviets. In the documentary "Disco and Atomic War" Soviets watching secret broadcasts from the West were astounded by ads of packed supermarket shelves, and couldn't believe it was possible.

"Disco and Atomic War": How David Hasselhoff won the Cold War

A hilarious Estonian documentary (yes, really!) asks whether disco and "Dallas" defeated Communism

www.salon.com

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2 years

Utilitarianism has two strands. One believes that philosophers or experts can divine the "utils" for everybody. This belief tends towards technocracy. The other believes utility is best found in the revealed preference of existing individuals. This belief tends towards freedom.

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3 months

The reason the Gov stopped including things like mortgage rates in inflation measures is because they didn’t want it to look like raising rates increased inflation. But raising rates does increase the pain on households and businesses. That’s how the rates work.

Scott Lincicome

@scottlincicome

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New @nberpubs : "The Cost of Money is Part of the Cost of Living: New Evidence on the Consumer Sentiment Anomaly" "lows in US consumer sentiment that cannot be explained by unemployment and official inflation are strongly correlated with borrowing costs..."

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11 months

Calls from some on the right to revive unions ignore how they've changed. Now half of members are public sector and almost half have BA degrees (1/3 higher than public) Unions are now a public/upper-middle-class group designed to extract funds from workers

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2 years

The @nytimes story on homelessness makes the now typical argument that Houston is some kind of mecca for the "Housing First" philosophy. In fact, unlike many cities, Houston has not tried to build its way out of the problem. A thread/

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11 months

In current NatCon/FreeCon debate, I think it would be more productive to have NatCons spell out their economic differences with the Left rather than traditional Rs. Forget obvious social stuff, like ESG, but where do they differ with Ds on Social Security, taxes, regulation, etc?

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YIMBYs solely focused on density don’t wrestle enough with the overwhelming fact that cities that are sprawling, low density and car dependent are generally affordable and cities that are high density and transit accessible are not. There’s a lot of cope around this.

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3 months

My latest piece for @NRO explains why Biden's housing plan will just juice housing demand and drive up prices more.

Biden’s Housing Plan Will Backfire | National Review

The White House proposes to increase demand for housing and add more obstacles to its supply: a recipe for failure.

www.nationalreview.com

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1 year

My letter-to-the-editor was just published at @TheEconomist . It's about how the Soviets helped block the publication of George Orwell's Animal Farm in the UK.

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4 years

The New York Times just published my op-ed "Thanksgiving is a Celebration of Freedom," which shows that the true origins of the holiday lie in the battle against slavery, and how it should remind us of America's tradition of expanding liberty.

Opinion | Thanksgiving Is a Celebration of Freedom (Published 2020)

The origins of the national holiday have little to do with Pilgrims and Indians.

www.nytimes.com

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4 months

The New Yorker has two political profiles this week. I wonder if it's possible to notice any subtle differences in how their photos portray the embattled Republican and the embattled Democrat.

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6 months

My latest @NRO explaining why energy efficiency regs are sabotaging manufacturing.

Sabotaging Manufacturing | National Review

The laptop class keeps finding new ways to impose costs on those trying to make things, and then is mystified when people refuse to build in America.

www.nationalreview.com

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1 year

I was very happy to chat with @EconTalker about both the costs and benefits of zoning and how we can encourage local governments to build more housing.

Judge Glock on Zoning and Local Government - Econlib

Economic historian Judge Glock talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about zoning and the housing market. Glock argues the impact on zoning on housing affordability is small and that we should learn to...

www.econtalk.org

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I’m quoted in the @nytimes today on why the contemporary “Housing First” model for solving homelessness has failed.

Federal Policy on Homelessness Becomes New Target of the Right

The approach known as Housing First has long enjoyed bipartisan support. But conservatives are pushing efforts to replace it with programs that put more emphasis on sobriety and employment.

www.nytimes.com

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The author claims these "right-wing" policies have hurt St. Louis: the state cut income taxes, sued on mask mandates, banned street camping, and ensured police funding. Obv other cities have thrived due to high taxes, masks, tent cities, and less policing.

Opinion | St. Louis Is the Struggling Downtown You Haven’t Heard Of — and Right-Wing Policies Are...

San Francisco has nothing on my city.

www.nytimes.com

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9 months

This is just as insane as everyone says. Britain is demolishing a massive apartment complex, because, in part, the "final towers look more solid and bulky" than in the plan. This is a helpful reminder that although much of US housing policy is bad, we're one of the least bad.

Royal Borough of Greenwich

@Royal_Greenwich

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We've taken the decision, as the local planning authority, to progress with enforcement action against the Comer Homes Group’s Mast Quay Phase II. Read the latest... 👉

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@sam_d_1995 Ugh, See above, but one this is mainly buses driving the same roads as everybody else, so you can add the road subsidies to the bus total too if you like. Two is there ANY time you would admit transit is just a bad investment? If it’s not $18 a trip, when? (Plus capital costs)

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3 months

My latest in @WSJOpinion explains why Buy America requirements are sabotaging U.S. infrastructure. This will be relevant for the Key Bridge rebuilding.

Opinion | Buy American, Build Nothing

The infrastructure law of 2021 makes it hard to build anything.

www.wsj.com

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5 months

My new report from @ManhattanInst estimates that about 20% of the American welfare state is simply returning funds to households that paid at least that amount in taxes that year. By most measures this is a huge waste. Short 🧵

Robbing Peter to Pay Peter: Netting Taxes and Transfers to U.S. Households

The goal of any social welfare system is to provide resources to those who are in need, by taxing those who are judged to have enough. Such programs, sometimes known as transfers or, in another form,...

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11 months

A US District Court in Tennessee has just struck down federal racial contracting programs, with extensive citations to the SFFA case. These contracting programs should be the next racial programs to fall at SCOTUS. h/t @VolokhC

Memorandum & Opinion AND Order AND ~Util - Terminate Motions – #86 in Ultima Services Corporation...

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER: Accordingly, for the reasons stated herein, Ultima's Motion for Summary Judgment 60 is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART, and Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment 61...

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9 months

I'm very happy to be in the latest edition of @worksinprog , where I explain how to make local governments actually want to grow again. Giving cities and neighborhoods incentives to embrace growth is the best way to encourage it.

Growing the growth coalition - Works in Progress

Local government faces incentives just like everything else. If we want voters to encourage growth near them, we need to make it worth their while.

worksinprogress.co

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2 years

Remember inflation hits everything. Your S&P index fund is not down 6.6% in a year. It is down 15.7% in real terms.

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1 year

Those surprised by the guarantee of uninsured depositors at SVB might have forgot that in October 2008, just two weeks (!) after Congress extended the insured limit to $250,000, the FDIC decided to guarantee all transactions deposits at all banks. Dodd-Frank, the supposedly/

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My recent piece for @CityJournal explains the many ways the government is encouraging drug abuse, especially among the homeless. I think even many people who work with the homeless don't appreciate how extensive such subsidies for abuse are. A thread. 1/

Subsidizing Addiction

Ira, an older, soft-spoken homeless man, recently went to the Downtown Austin Community Court to see if he was eligible for free housing. One of my friends, a fellow researcher, accompanied him. Ira...

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1 year

Also, worth remembering this from 2008, when Presidential candidate Obama told the Seafarer's International Union that "your members can continue to count on me to support the Jones Act."

Obama endorses Jones Act

Obama endorses Jones Act The Seafarers' International Union, which last week endorsed Barrack Obama for president, has released a letter from the Democrat

www.freightwaves.com

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6 months

Everyone should read James Bennet's account of his ousting at the @nytimes . It's filled with indelible lines. A short thread with my favorite:

When the New York Times lost its way

America’s media should do more to equip readers to think for themselves

www.economist.com

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@sam_d_1995 Los Angeles ranks last of largest 36 metros in terms of freeway miles per resident. It’s also by some measures the densest metro in the country. “Too many highways” does not explain LA traffic.

Los Angeles Transportation Facts and Fiction: Freeways - Freakonomics

We’ve been running a quiz about stereotypical views of transportation and urbanization in Los Angeles. Consider a headline that ran in The New York Times in 2006: “In Land of Freeways, Mass Transit...

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The reason I think NatCons don't want to make comparisons of their economics with the Left is that they like to position themselves as the true "conservatives," but on the econ issues that occupy most policymakers' time, they advocate policies that are moderate to Left Democratic

Judge Glock

@judgeglock

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In current NatCon/FreeCon debate, I think it would be more productive to have NatCons spell out their economic differences with the Left rather than traditional Rs. Forget obvious social stuff, like ESG, but where do they differ with Ds on Social Security, taxes, regulation, etc?

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This is just what I warned about in my recent article. Central Bankers have lost control of inflation and now blame workers for starting a "wage-price spiral."

BOE’s Bailey Calls for Pay Restraint to Halt Fear of Wage Spiral

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey called for workers to hold off on demands for higher pay, saying the nation needs to focus on keeping inflation in check despite the mounting cost of living...

www.bloomberg.com

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3 years

Banning street camping is not a left-right issue. Any urban area that wants to survive simply cannot allow people to set up homes in the middle of streets. LA proves this.

Using new law, L.A. City Council bans homeless encampments at 54 spots

The Los Angeles City Council approved a ban on camping at certain locations in the first use of a new set of laws that passed over the summer.

www.latimes.com

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@mattyglesias Yes, the big change is postal workers. Down from almost 800,000 in 90s/early 2000s to 500,000 today. Rest is stable but much smaller vs population.

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My latest for @WSJopinion argues that the media consensus on partisan voting is backwards. Rs tend to be more focused on economic issues and Ds more on social issues. Popular belief in limited government also provides an electoral advantage for Rs.

Opinion | U.S. Voters Want Limited Government

Contrary to common belief, economic policy is an electoral strength for the Republican Party.

www.wsj.com

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My latest report with @ManhattanInst , on "Source of Income" discrimination laws, which mandate landlords accept people with housing vouchers. I show the research demonstrates small benefits and real costs. There are better ways to help voucher-holders.

A Solution in Search of a Problem

An increasing number of states and cities have Source of Income, or SOI, antidiscrimination laws. These laws prevent landlords from rejecting tenants based on the source of their rental payments....

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Some antitrusters say we need to break up big corporations because they have too much political power. In fact, historically, industries with many dispersed companies have had more political pull than concentrated ones (ie neighborhood banks, doctors, lawyers, car dealers.)

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I was very happy to introduce this economic symposium on advice for the next administration for @CityJournal , featuring incomparables such as @ericadyork , @William_Blake , @Brian_Riedl , @SteveMiran , @CPopeHC , @Michael7ucci , @AllisonSchrager and more!

Symposium: An Economic Agenda for the Next President

Proposals to reinvigorate American dynamism, innovation, and self-sufficiency

www.city-journal.org

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@ModeledBehavior Isn't this just Rosen-Roback? Cities cannot have consistently higher real wage premiums because otherwise they'd have constant in-migration. The absence of the real wage premium is not the problem, the absence of that wage premium at a too low level of in-migration is the problem

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11 months

I appreciated @michaelbd piece on NatCon and freedom conservative policies. But this NatCon statement, which wants to restore manufacturing "critical to the public welfare" and then, in the NEXT sentence, rails against "selective promotion" of companies, is just a contradiction.

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3 years

My new piece for @TheBTI on why sprawl is good for the environment.

Sprawl Is Good: The Environmental Case for Suburbia

The Environmental Case for Suburbia

thebreakthrough.org

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@arpitrage Yep, overwhelmingly. Usually in realm of 60-80% of operating expenditures in Indiana.

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1 year

@asymmetricinfo “We don’t want to encourage TBTF banks, so we’ll make much smaller banks TBTF”

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7 months

Anyone shocked by the ACLU's recent embrace of coercive state power against its enemies should remember its origins. The ACLU's founder, Roger Baldwin, wrote a terrifying book, "Liberty Under the Soviets," which embraced one of the most murderous regimes in history. A 🧵

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The @NewYorker runs a story about a homeless housing project in Brooklyn where 16 have died so far this year and where drug dealing and crime are rampant. They declare it an obvious success. My latest with Stephen Eide for @CityJournal

What Would Failure Look Like?

The New Yorker sees a homelessness program rife with drugs and crime as hugely successful.

www.city-journal.org

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

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My latest for @WSJopinion , which explains the surprising scale and cost of government racial contracting programs and why they will likely fall under the standards the Supreme Court announced in the SFFA v. Harvard case.

Opinion | Affirmative Action in Contracting Faces Legal Peril

San Francisco lawmakers declared themselves guilty of discrimination so they could discriminate more.

www.wsj.com

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

1 year

Most Americans who see this poll will see it on a personal computer or mobile phone with high-speed internet connection that allows them access the entire cultural history of humanity with a few clicks. Basically that entire last sentence was incomprehensible to someone in 1973.

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

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@arpitrage I think the best counter to this is simply urban or suburban “infrastructure” is just not a large part of budgets. Roads are about 5% of state and local spending and smaller at local. All the big categories are education, welfare, police etc .

State and Local Expenditures

www.urban.org

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

7 months

This is a friendly reminder that the "externality" of cars causing traffic is borne by other drivers. Congestion charges that internalize that externality actually lead to increased throughput and even utility for drivers. Transit types assume they are supposed to punish cars.

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

8 months

Most don't recognize how the modern Left's obsession with social issues has scrambled their whole "de-colonialist" narrative. The Left's historic focus on economic issues made them tout undeveloped nations as examples of pre- or anti-capitalism. Now, the West is obviously more in

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

4 months

@drvolts @asymmetricinfo You are doing an amazing job proving her point that you see journalists’ job as activism (“try to stop fascism”) and not reporting on things.

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@judgeglock

1 year

“Wage slavery” has to be the most absurd term ever. Not getting paid for work is literally what defines slavery.

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

1 year

@DavidBeckworth Yes, and because wages are stickier than consumer prices, and wages are the largest cost of business, business profits increase during inflationary periods, as Keynes noted exactly 100 years ago.

Opinion | Inflation Drives Wages Down, Not Up

The ‘wage-price spiral’ is a myth. It’s much easier to raise prices than wages.

www.wsj.com

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

1 year

anti-bailout law, extended that guarantee until 2012. The main difference now is that the Feds are seemingly also guaranteeing savings and other accounts at SVB, continuing the tradition of expanding financial guarantees to ever more individuals.

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Judge Glock

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I want to again point out the absurdity of just giving billions of dollars to a for-profit company in exchange for nothing, purely as a grant.

Micron gets combined $13.6 billion grant, loan for chip plants - Roll Call

Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology will receive a $6.1 billion federal grant and $7.5 billion loan to build factories for memory chips.

rollcall.com

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

1 year

Many have written about how Buy American requirements or labor deals drive up the cost of infrastructure. More should look at the vast reach of minority-contracting laws, which also increase costs and encourage fraud. My latest for @CityJournal magazine

Welcome to the World of Minority Contracting

Government goals and set-asides for “disadvantaged” firms breed corruption and fraud, deepen racial divisions, and cost taxpayers billions.

www.city-journal.org

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

11 months

The difference on homelessness from 1992 to today is then George Carlin could say "there's no money in that problem." Now there are billions of dollars spent annually just in California alone. And there are a lot of people who've found ways to profit off not solving the problem.

System Update

@SystemUpdate_

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The great George Carlin in 1992: "If you could find a solution to homelessness where the corporate swine and the politicians could steal a couple million dollars each, you'd see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty God damn quick."

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Judge Glock

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1 year

Anyone who doubts that China has bureaucracy in its bones should visit Dongyue Daoist Temple in Beijing. There the afterlife is depicted as 76 "departments" overseen by angel/demon bureaucrats, including, my favorite, "The Department for Implementing 15 Kinds of Violent Death."

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

9 months

Many people keep saying “but car subsidies.” One, even the most implausible car subsidies don’t amount to $18! per intracity trip. Two this is mainly buses going along the same roads that get “subsidized” so you can add the road costs to this transit total if you like.

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

4 months

It's amazing what the government can do at the stroke of a pen. A proposed workplace standard by OSHA will affect a million firefighters and EMS across the country and cost $600 million a year to implement. Also amazing the Feds can do this to local govs.

Emergency Response Standard

OSHA is proposing through this notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to issue a new safety and health standard, titled Emergency Response, to replace the existing Fire Brigades Standard. The new...

www.federalregister.gov

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

10 months

This is wild to me. You have North America and Europe being significant net exporters of food, and developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where over half of the population are farmers, being net importers. You can see why these countries rail against agricultural subsidies.

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

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Real electricity prices in California are about double what they were almost 50 years ago. It's hard to overstate what an amazing failure this is. Energy has absorbed more government research money and seen more regulation than just about any sector.

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

2 years

Essays in Economic and Business History just published my piece on what's actually new and what's problematic in the "New History of Capitalism" literature, with @VincentGeloso

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

1 year

@mattyglesias One might even argue that the Confederacy was an attack against American culture. I think they fought a war about that.

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

8 months

@asymmetricinfo The "Critical Mass" cycling campaigns, which began in the 1990s, seemed to be a turning point of disrupting traffic for the specific point of pissing off drivers and getting attention for the cause. Now the connection to cars is often more tenuous.

Austin Critical Mass

Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to take back the streets. It...

www.nowplayingaustin.com

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

1 year

For those who haven't read it yet, you should definitely check out this eye-opening @nytimes piece on the homelessness crisis in Phoenix. I've been working in Phoenix on the issue for years now and the area the locals call "the Zone" really is that bad.

A Sandwich Shop, a Tent City and an American Crisis (Published 2023)

As homelessness overwhelms downtown Phoenix, a small business wonders how long it can hang on.

www.nytimes.com

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

7 months

@besttrousers I call this the Soviet error: that "economic growth" has some definable relationship to "stuff." Growth is a pure utility concept. 2% growth means we like our stuff 2% more than the previous year. Ketchup bottles with the pour at the bottom is growth but takes no more resources.

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Judge Glock

@judgeglock

6 months

@mattyglesias This goes to the problem that the economic justification of congestion charges is actually to improve drivers experience, but many activists think it’s a way to attack cars.

Judge Glock

@judgeglock

7 months

This is a friendly reminder that the "externality" of cars causing traffic is borne by other drivers. Congestion charges that internalize that externality actually lead to increased throughput and even utility for drivers. Transit types assume they are supposed to punish cars.

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One of the surest signs of a totalitarian government is an exit visa. If you need permission from the government to leave, that's because they know their society is effectively a prison.

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Judge Glock

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6 months

@nytimes Publishing a Taliban op-ed “It’s puzzling: in what moral universe can it be a point of pride to publish a piece by an enemy who may have American blood on his hands, and a matter of shame to publish a piece by an American senator arguing for American troops to protect Americans?”

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Judge Glock

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5 months

It is worth noting that this footnote from Marshall has nothing to do with trade policy, as the article implies, but deals with Marshall's attack on Ricardo's "iron law of wages": the supposed tendency of wages to fall to subsistence levels.

Oren Cass

@oren_cass

5 months

4/ Under the heading "The Narrowness of Ricardo and His Followers," Marshall chastised the Ricardians for having “laid down laws with regard to profits and wages that did not really hold even for England in their own time." And look at this footnote:

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Judge Glock

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1 year

One nonpartisan reform possibility that I'm always amazed gets little attention is expanding the number of judges sitting on lower courts. This speeds justice for businesses, families, police, those accused of crimes, everyone. And judges are a tiny fraction of gov costs.

Otis Reid

@otis_reid

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Growing body of literature on the importance of court speed/efficiency for firms and credit markets

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