Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The whole thing where a chip shortage reducing the volume of new car production led to soaring prices for used cars seems like it might contain some lessons for housing policy.
12:36 PM · Jan 14, 2022
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Andrew Prokop@awprokop
Steve Clemons (fresh off dinner with Manchin at Cafe Milano) says Manchin actually isn't so keen on the Freedom to Vote Act (the supposed compromise crafted to win his support).
Also, he wants bipartisan Electoral Count Act reform
politico.com/news/2022/01/1…
3:51 PM · Jan 14, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Do what’s right for the economy — reduce spending on the overburdened goods sector and redirect that money into newsletter subscriptions where the supply chain is extremely robust.
Jason Furman @jasonfurman
The decline in retail sales might actually be a positive sign of a healthy normalization.
The economy has struggled to produce enough goods to match the voracious consumer appetite for them. If goods spending continues to normalize that would be, well, good. https://t.co/hz2w72fNXu
4:15 PM · Jan 14, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Not necessarily opposed to this, but it would be a lot cheaper to let people build tall buildings on the Upper West Side sidestreets where the B/C trains have unused capacity.
Samantha Maldonado @sssmaldo
Well this is quite the proposal
https://t.co/HMvZekXzzo https://t.co/T1Ps2Od1YF
5:08 PM · Jan 14, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
One Billion Americans within our existing land mass would leave the United States slightly less dense than Germany. https://t.co/0xlo48Rplj
New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
Sure, if you extended New Manhattanata past Governor’s Island, you could fit in a quarter-million more New Yorkers. But if you extended it past Iceland, we’d finally have room for the one billion Americans we need.
By Matt Yglesias
11:50 PM · Jan 14, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
There are about the same number of people in the Phoenix metro area as in the Berlin metro area. https://t.co/XdaTu4jJW8
Allan Moyes @Scotty1959
@mattyglesias Except that Germany doesn’t have the SW quadrant of the US which is basically uninhabitable away from the coast (at least for a large number of people).
12:06 AM · Jan 15, 2022
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Brad Heath@bradheath
Guys, when the FBI asks to talk to you, you're not going to be the one doing the interrogating.
Mike Dunford @questauthority
Here's the most recent tweet from that timeline.
*Ron Howard Voice*
"A report did not follow." https://t.co/dwFIgHvAxH
5:41 PM · Jan 14, 2022
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Nick Heer@nickheer
I keep thinking about how marketers, in solving for Google’s search ranking mechanisms, have effectively broken it as a search engine.
mjtsai.com
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6:06 PM · Jan 14, 2022
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Michael Vario@mvario1
No One Seems To Understand Why Elizabeth Warren Just Teamed Up With Josh Hawley & Lindsey Graham To Try To Repeal Section 230 | Techdirt techdirt.com/articles/20220…
#ProtectSection230 #SaveSection230
techdirt.com
[UPDATE] Elizabeth Warren Is NOT Cosponsoring A Bill To Repeal 230
7:39 PM · Jan 14, 2022
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
The incredibly rapid rise of the number of NBA players in COVID protocols being followed by an equally rapid decline.
public.tableau.com/views/NBACOVID…
8:28 PM · Jan 14, 2022
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Alexis Rivas@alexisxrivas
Today it takes 410 days on average to build a custom home in the USA. The same amount of time it took to build the Empire State Building in 1930.
The opportunity for innovation in construction is incredible.
Bobby Fijan @bobbyfijan
A fact that always blows my mind:
It took 410 days to build the Empire State Building https://t.co/EYYdeR384q
7:23 AM · Jan 14, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
I still think Twitter's political power is massively overrated in general, but I wonder if the YIMBYs crushing the NIMBYs on Twitter had anything to do with this...
Curbed @Curbed
.@AOC has a plan to address the housing shortage. She wants to flood local, state, and federal governments with YIMBYs. @dianabudds writes https://t.co/SZVfmb5mzv
9:13 PM · Jan 14, 2022
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tylercowen@tylercowen
How much should we be upping our probabilities that a bunch of other mysterious ailments are caused by viruses too?
1:54 PM · Jan 14, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
One of the most underrated aspects of contemporary politics is the extent to which "activists on the left" and "major funders" are the same people. It's very different from the dynamic of 20 years ago.
Shane Goldmacher @ShaneGoldmacher
The drive for a major push on voting rights didn't just come from activists on the left.
It has come from major funders. https://t.co/HDd6PiuuCf
9:33 PM · Jan 14, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
The thing about "defund the police" was, it would have backfired even had it actually been done.
Steven Buss 🥑 🌐 @sbuss
"No evidence suggests a relationship between the size of a police force and the number of people its officers kill; ample evidence suggests that bigger and better-funded forces tend to reduce violent crime."
https://t.co/vzz37ACYJG
3:46 AM · Jan 15, 2022
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