Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
When I was a kid, we had domestic terrorists killing hundreds of people and bombing the Olympics. We had 2200 murders in NYC in one year. We had 30,000 nukes pointed at us, on hair-trigger alert.
And this is what we now remember as a golden age.
So...maybe we'll be ok.
Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion
Does the U.S. -- or the world -- stand on the brink of radical change? Is it "socialism or barbarism"? Or will we muddle through like we did in the 70s?
https://t.co/K6wi5F1S66
3:55 AM · Jan 28, 2022
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urbanmountain@urbanmountainv
more evidence that broad upzoning leads to only gradual change.
also: "neighbors for more neighbors" is the perfect name for a pro-housing group
axios.com
Minneapolis move to legalize triplexes shows little impact
9:12 AM · Jan 28, 2022
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Lydia DePillis@lydiadepillis
Venmo pushed crypto so hard all year. Now, according to Pew, one out of six Americans have dabbled in it. And a lot of them are losing their shirts. washingtonpost.com/business/2022/…
Venmo @Venmo
Welcome to the world of crypto, now on Venmo! Start exploring in the app today.
10:56 AM · Jan 28, 2022
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Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
Great read from @JavierBlas.
The coal market is booming. Prices are surging. And the companies that have stayed in the coal industry, despite pressures to divest for environmental reasons, are making a killing. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
11:27 AM · Jan 28, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is a successful Pelosi/Mnuchin/Biden macroeconomic stabilization program — the pandemic is a real shock so we have more inflation and less output than we’d have had without it, but we didn’t get a prolonged collapse in nominal spending or enduring mass unemployment.
1:00 PM · Jan 28, 2022
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
I also didn't realize (though it isn't surprising) that there's a fairly big partisan gap in happiness (Republicans are happier), which has grown somewhat during the pandemic.
Christopher Ingraham @_cingraham
The latest data on happiness from the General Social Survey is truly something else. Nothing remotely like it in the past five decades of polling. https://t.co/JZBj8H6KpR https://t.co/CALnfzMV9h
4:21 PM · Jan 28, 2022
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Radley Balko@radleybalko
Ilya Shapiro on Sonia Sotomayor (17 years as a federal judge, extensive trial experience, pro bono and appellate work when she was nominated) vs. Amy Cony Barrett (3 years as a federal judge, never tried a case or argued an appeal, nominated after Trump promised a woman).
6:29 PM · Jan 28, 2022
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
That's fair; Republicans have a anti-vax vs. vax-and-relax split.
I do think, though, that the Democratic split (between vax-and-relax and "war footing toward COVID") is fairly new as until recently there weren't that many vax-and-relax Democrats.
Jonathan Bernstein @jbview
Not sure that's true; after all Dems are united on vaccines while Republicans are split.
My view is it's just really hard to tell during the omicron ~peak. Things may look very different in a month. https://t.co/70KGgz1Izz
6:46 PM · Jan 28, 2022
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Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney
BREAKING: The Jan. 6 committee has subpoenaed 14 of the illegitimate GOP "electors" who attempted to submit their names to Congress in Dec. 2020.
The panel wants to know who helped coordinate the effort.
Details TK w /@woodruffbets @nicholaswu12
7:00 PM · Jan 28, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
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Bloomberg Next China @next_china
The bar for China’s financial markets to do better this year was so low, virtually everyone on Wall Street was saying the country’s stocks and bonds could only go up. That bet isn’t going so well. https://t.co/tCC0cqKLLE
7:32 PM · Jan 28, 2022
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𝙈. 𝙉𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙣 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙮@mnolangray
His entire topsy-turvy framework depends on the idea that homeowners have a *property right* in government regulations (?) that strip their neighbors of their actual property rights.
David Alpert @alpert
Guy works for a prominent libertarian organization, but is shocked when that organization favors property rights; instead wants to define property rights as “homeowners wanting to limit what other people can do with their property near them.” Gets fired, is angry. https://t.co/zmA5jsxGOZ
10:19 PM · Jan 28, 2022
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𝙈. 𝙉𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙣 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙮@mnolangray
This has silly implications: imagine you have a state-enforced cartel in an industry, with regs blocking entrants. Libertarians are rightly critical of such programs. But by O'Toole's framework, those incumbents have a property right in the state's enforcement of the cartel!
10:24 PM · Jan 28, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
Shots fired
Jamin Speer @JaminSpeer
Take real analysis, then take fake analysis (most departments call it "macro")
11:21 PM · Jan 28, 2022
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