Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Japan's small businesses are really, really unproductive.
voxeu.org/article/effect…
5:52 AM · Dec 9, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
This really interesting article asks: Now that climate change is something that powerful people care about, how can activists reconcile themselves to alliances with big business and national security hawks?
theatlantic.com
Climate Advocates Are Gambling With Fate
6:00 AM · Dec 9, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Enrico Moretti highly doubts that superstar cities are going to lose their clustering economies to remote work:
bloomberg.com
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
6:01 AM · Dec 9, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
A really excellent overview of land wealth in America, by @larsiusprime:
astralcodexten.substack.com
Does Georgism Work? Is Land Really A Big Deal?
6:05 AM · Dec 9, 2021
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Stan Oklobdzija@stan_okl
Everyone is focusing on the fact that she was partying until 4 am, but I'm over here in awe of a country where their political leaders aren't a bunch of geriatrics still hashing out the grievance politics of the 1970s.
Neri Zilber @NeriZilber
Finland's Prime Minister is 36 years old, went out clubbing till 4am, left her work phone at home and was therefore unreachable to get a text telling her she needed to quarantine. https://t.co/AUYNYtCxsU
7:18 AM · Dec 9, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Latino public opinion — pretty progressive on economics, interested in hearing more about anti-Hispanic racism, very optimistic and patriotic, and into law enforcement.
slowboring.com/p/latinx
11:22 AM · Dec 9, 2021
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Grace Segers@Grace_Segers
He's a mild-mannered U.S. senator
He's a mild-mannered German chancellor
When a wacky coincidence thrusts them together, they realize they can only save western democracy by trading places for a few days.
Coming to Netflix soon: The Senator Switch
Santiago Mayer🧣 @santiagomayer_
One of these two is new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the other is U.S. Senator Chris Coons. https://t.co/WxIasHtlsb
12:22 PM · Dec 9, 2021
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Justin de Benedictis-Kessner@jdbk
Electing Democratic mayors leads to more multi-family housing permitted in big cities, but city councilors have little direct effect on permits. New working paper w/ @daniel_b_jones + @cwarshaw using data on city council/mayoral elections + 🏘️permits in big cities ⬇️
5:34 PM · Dec 9, 2021
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
Automation has been happening for 50+ years. The reason we aren't all becoming unemployed is that we keep giving people more money and they use it to buy more stuff.
Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang
Just met with a technologist whose $55k robot fully replaces a person - pays for itself in a year or so. Automation is still happening, faster now because of the pandemic and labor market issues.
6:05 PM · Dec 9, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
There was a vote to avert Medicare cuts — it passed on a bipartisan basis but with a ton of GOP "no" votes.
Nick @pedestrian_wolf
@mattyglesias I thought this got bundled with protections AGAINST Medicare cuts? Am I misunderstanding what happened?
6:34 PM · Dec 9, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
And just to be a little incendiary, I think progressives' failure to understand the Hispanic success story is that they've Twitter-angsted themselves into the belief that no one can move up and better themselves in America.
Wrong!
Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion
Of all the theories that get thrown around regarding Hispanic voters, the one I've seen least, but what should be the most obvious, is:
"Hispanics are succeeding in America, and they don't want any politicians to endanger that success."
https://t.co/PvuPIkEulG https://t.co/LrKAfEEBKL
7:51 PM · Dec 9, 2021
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Wesley@WesleyLowery
After WaPo and the Guardian created databases of people killed by police, the FBI announced they'd begin tracking the data themselves. 5 years later, those efforts may be abandoned because local police departments won't cooperate
washingtonpost.com
FBI may shut down police use-of-force database due to lack of police participation
3:20 PM · Dec 9, 2021
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Tracy Alloway@tracyalloway
Bank of America on real rates:
"10-year US real rates now -4.6%, a level in the past 200 years that has been associated with panics, inflations, wars & depression, and a level
today increasingly responsible for froth in crypto, commodities, and U.S. stocks."
10:22 PM · Dec 9, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Europe is obviously less auto-oriented than the United States, but I think people (or at least tweets) tend to exaggerate the extent of the difference.
Even in a very dense country like the Netherlands, most people drive to work.
11:56 PM · Dec 9, 2021
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Aaron Strauss@aaron_strauss
Universities' first-year GPA restrictions for majors like economics yield terrible outcomes for the students who miss the cutoff, and colleges should eliminate them:
Zachary Bleemer @zbleemer
BONUS: Think that major restrictions may be in students' best interest, keeping them out of fields they're unprepared for?
Our forthcoming paper in AEJ: Applied shows otherwise: RD evidence shows massive long-run costs to being booted out. https://t.co/ZViYYTC7jD 14/n https://t.co/EJxRcAiUN1
1:04 AM · Dec 10, 2021
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