Favorite Rejects 2023-01-13

Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr

I really don’t want to play this game, but I’ll bite: If homeownership was the only way to build wealth, Romania would’t be among the poorest countries in Europe and Switzerland would’t be among the richest.

Carl E. Heastie @CarlHeastie

We must build on the legacy of putting families first. It starts with safe & secure housing. Instead of affording rent, we must widen our focus to help NYers build wealth through homeownership. Let’s put our energies toward meaningful & sustainable solutions to our housing crisis

Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman

In case you were wondering, here's the homicide rate in New York City from 1797 to today.

Jason Furman @jasonfurman

Core CPI inflation forecasts for 2022-Q4 from the Survey of Professional Forecasters: Nov-21: 2.4% Feb-22: 2.6% May-22: 3.5% Aug-22: 4.6% Nov-22: 5.7% Actual: 4.1% Inflation way below recent forecasts, but above what had been expected 9+ months ago.

lulag tankie @revhowardarson

"some kind of degrowth" oh you mean you want less of the things you think are bad and more of things you think are good just like everyone else except you want to pitch it as a program of austerity to make it sound offputting but virtuous, or in other words "radical"

Anton Barbashin @ABarbashin

When Putin proposed his Christmas ceasefire he speaks of "contact line in Ukraine" - ignoring his own previous statements about it being "Russian soil". Hardly anyone in Russia treats recent "referendum results" in occupied Ukraine seriously en.kremlin.ru/events/preside…

Bennett Murray @BDMurray

This Z Telegram channel admin who recently visited occupied territory is complaining that Russia, despite having annexed Donetsk, is more or less maintaining a hard border crossing. They even still have the border symbols physically in place. It's as if the FSB knows it's a joke. https://t.co/nVOZpFKYb8

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

Debt ceiling showdown should be in May / early June per this new Janet Yellen letter home.treasury.gov/system/files/1…

Twitterrific @Twitterrific

State of the Twitterverse for Twitterrific, Tweetbot other third party apps. Spoiler alert, we don’t know much yet! blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-…

Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

I think we can all agree the funniest story of the last three years is all the VCs/tech people becoming inflation hawks because it was a good narrative to pump their crypto bags. And then the Fed hiked rates and their industry was the first to get vaporized.

Drew Moxon 🐇 @DSMoxon

This New Yorker article is wild. The more you learn about quantum computing, the more it blows your mind.

newyorker.comThe World-Changing Race to Develop the Quantum ComputerSuch a device could help address climate change and food scarcity, or break the Internet. Will the U.S. or China get there first?

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

China, 2018: We just want peaceful commerce, we are non-aligned China, 2020-22: HAHA JUST KIDDING, GUESS WHO'S THE HEGEMON NOW, GIVE US TAIWAN AND PART OF INDIA, WE ARE ASCENDANT China, 2023: ...We just want peaceful commerce, we are non-aligned

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think the rising share of independent self-identification at a time when *in practice* we are clearly seeing fewer swing voters is actually pretty dysfunctional.

ian bremmer @ianbremmer

largest political identity in the us? independents (well done, my fellow non-party folk) https://t.co/m4n4YO4N0G

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

One nice thing about having a firm partisan identity IMO is it relieves you of the psychological pressure to make up a rotating list of slanders about the other party’s candidates, you can just admit to yourself that you were never up for grabs.