Presidio of San Francisco@presidiosf
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!
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S.F.’s Presidio getting $200 million from Washington. Here’s how the unique national park will change
6:23 PM · Feb 3, 2023
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Bring back the yap-satçı@TribTowerViews
Northern California needs Oregon-levels of mass timber economic development policy. masstimbercoalition.org/projects
6:40 PM · Feb 5, 2023
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Gokul Sahni@Gokul_Sahni
🧵 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
The final post in my "country development" series: India!!! 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
https://t.co/5XVYPv38Uh
7:16 AM · Feb 6, 2023
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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
Once again, our uniform spherical cow on a frictionless surface nevertheless skids to a painful halt: "As interest rates grow, it seem that inflation responds by … increasing." 16/ https://t.co/1vnsh6rXsq
7:21 AM · Feb 6, 2023
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Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
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.
12:42 PM · Feb 6, 2023
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Cameron Poetzscher@cpoetzscher
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
Reminder:
One of China's biggest fears is that someday the United States might actually fix its broken immigration system https://t.co/LWOCrsaWOn
4:33 PM · Feb 6, 2023
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Ed Prescott would say those other countries have higher employment rates because they have lower taxes
...oh wait
Joey Politano 🏳️🌈 @JosephPolitano
Two things that are true about America's labor market recovery:
1) The speed & strength of the post-COVID employment recovery has been historically strong
2) The US still significantly lags behind most of its peer countries in working-age employment https://t.co/qcec6wAvMP
5:40 PM · Feb 6, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It is true that with the FairTax, many Republicans did display willingness to raise taxes — on retired people and the poor.
Jonathan Martin @jmart
Classic @RichardRubinDC deadpan:
“It isn’t clear how much Mr. Smith’s emphasis on working Americans will lead to changes in Republican tax policy, which has been defined for three decades by opposition to tax increases” https://t.co/H0xCwmJIJI
6:25 PM · Feb 6, 2023
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
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
Once again, our uniform spherical cow on a frictionless surface nevertheless skids to a painful halt: "As interest rates grow, it seem that inflation responds by … increasing." 16/ https://t.co/1vnsh6rXsq
9:21 PM · Feb 6, 2023
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Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma
The lowest earning 25% of Californians spend almost 70% of their income on rent, per the @LAOEconTax
10:59 PM · Feb 6, 2023
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Remember to account for macro variables when analyzing micro data!
Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630
The famous claim that a home increased in value by $100Ks after a white "front couple" pitched it instead of a Black family was apparently b/s - the 2nd pitch took place 7 moths later, involved new appraisers, and followed a 30% upswing in the market...https://t.co/Y2hUK9tkzk
1:27 AM · Feb 7, 2023
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