Favorite Rejects 2022-07-20

Saleha Mohsin @SalehaMohsin

Few if any current Fortune 100 CEOs outside of Warren Buffett have dealt w/ an inflationary environment like this one 9.1% inflation was last seen in 1981 when Jamie Dimon, among the longest-serving big-company CEOs, was 25 By @morningmoneyben

Ben White @morningmoneyben

Recessions can be self-creating. One way is big companies start to fear a coming slowdown and make plans to trim hiring and investment. That’s beginning to happen now as the unknowns (inflation, rate hikes, fiscal policy, war) keep piling up. By me. https://t.co/ecpl2p8edC

Francis Scarr @francis_scarr

You couldn't make this up Last night Russian state TV ran a report on the unexpected 'benefits' of having your son killed in Ukraine You can buy a Lada with the compensation given to you by the state!

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Trenitalia closed the station house permanently; tickets are available at vending machines or online and if you want a snack or to use the bathroom there’s a caffe across the street.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Remember when the panickers were all "Hitler Hitler Hitler — he's going to try to conquer Europe blah blah everyone freak out!" and now nobody worries about this?

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

Im pretty convinced from my analysis of Census data that the mass decline of residential hotels in the 70s lead to the mass increase of unsheltered homelessness in the 1980s, particularly in the Bay Area.

Henry Grabar @henrygrabar

Many of our housing problems can be traced to the fall of the residential hotel, which was once a fixture of the American city's residential mix... and could be again. In defense of the hotel: https://t.co/wqeQcHrXqg

Drunken Idaho @MaxPMagee

@kairyssdal The plots that they didn't include in the article are in this PDF. Pretty nifty: hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11MI…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

In Italy, the population is growing much faster than average in the richest region (Lombardy) because people move there for the relatively high pay. It seems very intuitive until you realize it’s not like that at all in the US thanks to deranged local housing politics.

Mark @KnightMirko

1.: Haha, the HIMARS will be completely ineffective against us 2.: Okay, we're doing an operational pause totally not because of HIMARS 3.: Iran help (c) Adam Something

YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND

People are always complaining about modern apartment buildings. What they don't realize is that it's our insane development laws that force them into existence in the first place. Legalize housing like that on the left!

Perhaps Slightly Fewer Cars JC @CarsDontFitJC

Street parking in JC is >99% subsidized: - avg market rate: $3,000 / year - residential permit: $20 / year 60,000 on-street spaces = $200MM/yr subsidy of car ownership. This is terrible policy / socializes costs of car ownership (Source: JC Parking Plan jerseycitynj.gov/residentresour…)

Chris “Subscribe to Law Dork!” Geidner @chrisgeidner

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