It's beginning to look like they're going to fail to raise the debt limit in time this year. My understanding is that there's really not much you can do financially to shield yourself from the fallout if this happens.
The key thing about the underlying study is right there in the first paragraph, we shouldn’t be surprised that small up-zonings have a small effect. What’s important is that the directionality. Allowing more homes leads to lower rents.
The reason it's important to get this right from the beginning is that this kind of subsidy can be very hard to change once it's in place. He points to the morass that is ethanol subsidies as an example of what can go wrong.
This graphic of the components of inflation was the most interesting part of the thread, I didn't realize energy prices had not only stopped rising, but that prices are actually down.