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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.
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion
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more evidence that broad upzoning leads to only gradual change.
also: "neighbors for more neighbors" is the perfect name for a pro-housing group
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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/…
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Venmo @Venmo
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Christopher Ingraham @_cingraham
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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).
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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.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jbview
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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
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Bloomberg Next China @next_china
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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.
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David Alpert @alpert