The Presidio is excited to announce the park has received a $200 million federal grant that will go toward major systems upgrades including installing a totally new power grid that should triple the electrical capacity of the park. Plus more!
Northern California needs Oregon-levels of mass timber economic development policy. masstimbercoalition.org/projects
🧵 on the Indian economy and its key drivers for the future:
“Why is India the most important development story on Earth?.. sheer size; as of this year, India is the world’s most populous country, overtaking a now-shrinking China.” 1/10
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion
This is like saying that as people go to the hospital, they respond by having heart attacks and broken legs
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) @doctorow
We need to talk more seriously about how we escaped ZIRP, unemployment is at a 50+ year low, real wages are now positive (and have been for the lower quintiles for some time), and the rich have taken a big hit to their wealth
So many people here dreamed of this scenario.
We should be aggressively recruiting talent from all over the world, but especially from China, Russia, Iran & other talent-rich but hostile & authoritarian states.
Alec Stapp @AlecStapp
Ed Prescott would say those other countries have higher employment rates because they have lower taxes
...oh wait
Joey Politano 🏳️🌈 @JosephPolitano
It is true that with the FairTax, many Republicans did display willingness to raise taxes — on retired people and the poor.
Jonathan Martin @jmart
I liked Cory's work on copyright back in the day but his thinking on economics (via @Noahpinion ) is confused. This is like saying firefighters are supposed to stop fires but houses that have firefighters visit them in a year are more likely to have caught on fire that year.
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) @doctorow
The lowest earning 25% of Californians spend almost 70% of their income on rent, per the @LAOEconTax
Remember to account for macro variables when analyzing micro data!
Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630