Favorites April 23rd 2022: Freight, Fertility and Affordability
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Mentioning it again, something very strange is happening with freight in China.
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From Cowen's commentary: "The marketization of childcare is likely an important cause of this shift."
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In case you missed it, Texas held up tons of freight at the southern border, and as any informed observer could have guessed, we now see that it accomplished nothing.
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The scale of starbucks is so large, I sorta assume they open new locations faster than stores are unionizing. On the other hand, there's nothing really stopping the pace of these from speeding up.
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Amazing progress, but the more we learn about the dangers of air pollution, the clearer it is that there's room for improvement.
I thought this was really cool, although it's a bit of a bummer that to combine things you have to just pick coefficients that seem reasonable. This article I read recently on assessing land values talks about how you might choose the coefficients in a less arbitrary way.