Favorite Rejects 2022-10-10

Victor Shih @vshih2

This is absolutely right but Xi also will absolutely not restructure the economy in this way

Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis

1/9 "If China is to put growth onto a more sustainable footing, it needs to empower its consumers. In particular, Beijing should allocate hefty fiscal transfers into state pension funds for both city and rural dwellers. This will cost a great deal." https://t.co/kbhKOgLpRK

Jake Williams @MalwareJake

This is just sloppy work. Like embarrassing levels of sloppy. I honestly expected better from them.

Luchkov Andrii @AndriiLuchkov

The 1photo shows “the passport of the person who blew up the Kerch Bridge”(by the Kremlin deza),and the 2photo shows a sample passport from Wikipedia, find the ten differences.Even the signature and some numbers were left the same😂Also transcription of the surname is not correct https://t.co/3tcRipyHIw

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

These two Bernanke essays are tremendous though and set the template for what I think has despite its problems been a pretty successful macroeconomic response to a terribly mishandled public health situation.

(((Matthew Lewis))) progressive federalism SOS @mateosfo

"If you’ve ever talked to a traffic engineer, you’ll realize they're not interested in reducing tens of thousands of Americans who die from traffic-related crashes." I'm with @IDoTheThinking. No more waiting. "We need to just erect barriers ourselves."

darrellowens.substack.comI’m Not Going To Wait AnymoreIt’s time to stop relying on planners and traffic engineers to keep us safe.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

In a socialist utopia with no private housing, you'd still sometimes have a situation where the number of households wanting to live somewhere exceeds the number of existing homes and some people say "we should build more" and others say locals should be allowed to veto that.

Chris Elmendorf @CSElmendorf

Looks like Mayor of Atherton is counting on CA legislature to bail out small rich cities that don't want to accommodate multifamily housing. mercurynews.com/2022/10/09/bay…

Cheryl Morgan 🧜‍♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💉💉💉💉 @CherylMorgan

Government policy on solar power makes no sense either from an energy or an agriculture perspective. It is solely about “owning the libs”. carbonbrief.org/factcheck-is-s…

Bristol Energy Coop @briznrg

Biofuel crops occupy 77 times more land than #SolarFarms. A hectare of solar panels delivers between 48-112 times more driving distance than vehicles driven on biofuel. Govt's existing ground solar target would've occupied only 1/2 the space currently taken up by golf courses.

Sarah Constantin @s_r_constantin

A proposed agenda for the "abundance movement"

sarahconstantin.substack.comUnblocking AbundanceA Model for Activism

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think this illustrates why Twitter got into the content moderation game. Musk clearly recognizes that it would be bad for business for Ye to be doing high-volume antisemitism on his platform, so he’s trying to talk him out of it. But what if it doesn’t work?

Elon Musk @elonmusk

@kanyewest Talked to ye today & expressed my concerns about his recent tweet, which I think he took to heart