Favorite Rejects 2021-11-10

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

More West Coast cities should try mayoral control of the school system

sfchronicle.comMayor Breed backs recall of three San Francisco school board members: ‘Our kids must come first’San Francisco Mayor London Breed announces her support of the effort to recall three...

Weiran Zhang @weiran

Fantastic to see France pledge to replace and build new nuclear reactors.

reuters.comMacron says France will build new nuclear energy reactorsFrance will build new nuclear reactors to help the country lessen its dependence on foreign countries for its energy supplies, meet global warming targets and keep prices under control, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Oof, I got the worst possible answer! pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

In the UK, the Tory austerity agenda led to big cuts in police funding with disastrous impact on the poor. sites.google.com/view/elisafacc…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

(When a right-wing government does it, I think it's easier to see that "arbitrary cuts to flawed-but-important public services" is not a progressive solution to those flaws)

Jane Coaston @janecoaston

Get yourself a religion where one pope put the remains of another pope on trial https://t.co/BSXWgE8XPz

Paul Flannery @Pflanns

@janecoaston The most metal of all the other religions combined

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Meanwhile, in the Chinese real estate sector

Josh Caplan @joshdcaplan

REUTERS: Evergrande misses second offshore bond payment

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

There's a good argument to be made that we got the persistent inflation of the late 70s because the Fed's failure to respond to the transitory inflation of the early 70s oil shock convinced everyone that the Fed didn't actually care about inflation that much.

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Unlike a lot of things that people speculate about there is pretty strong empirical evidence that voters do care about inflation.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is not very popularist but expanded legal immigration is the ultimate production enhancing reform for today’s supply constrained economy.

strikeforce mujahid ❄️🎄 @s_damerdji

Great year for Mountain View urbanism: we added 3 blocks of walkable plaza downtown, & now we're gonna solve our parking woes the green way Shout out to the 2 MV YIMBY members @JamesKuszmaul & @FifthRocket who got quoted on the high cost of free parking

mv-voice.comMountain View adopts new plan to ease downtown parking woesPaid parking, more enforcement and better wayfinding are now part of Mountain View’s plans to better manage limited parking and a crush of demand during the busiest hours on Castro Street.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Simple solution: Sail to Atlanta from the UK. (Or get vaccinated!) https://t.co/FCaZcOed7O

Tatiana Siegel @TatianaSiegel27

Meanwhile, Disney may have a problem when Black Panther 2 resumes production. Letitia Wright remains unvaccinated. Under new travel restrictions, she wouldn't be able to fly to Atlanta set unless her status changes. Story from me & @Borys_Kit https://t.co/u6BwOodNSb via @thr

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Wonder why this startup doesn't exist yet. I've talked to people trying to do fractional homeownership companies, don't know why they failed. Regulatory fragmentation?

Balaji Srinivasan @balajis

How you might incentivize YIMBYism If residents owned fungible shares in a citywide REIT, rather than the nonfungible land under a house, they’d be incentivized to recruit great people to the city at large. Can test the concept in a new startup city first, backport if it works. https://t.co/yKLMp3W10c