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Oct 04, 2021

Some nice concrete examples here illustrating the difference between thinking in partial versus general equilibrium..

Uber and Lyft might be helping the environment in the long run, by encouraging developers to build less parking and spurring greater density. @binarybits responds to @drvolts below: https://t.co/9Jze6qROJ5

5:14 AM · Oct 3, 2021

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It's a great article, the key takeaway for me: "There’s a middle range where a neighborhood is dense enough for parking shortages to become a concern, but not yet dense enough that it’s convenient to get around in other ways.", Uber/Lyft help break this deadlock.

Kim-Mai Cutler@kimmaicutler

“Job applicants said they were excited to join a company that took employee safety seriously. United has received 20,000 applications for about 2,000 flight attendant positions, a much higher ratio than before the pandemic.”

The New York Times @nytimes

Scott Kirby, the chief executive of United Airlines, decided that it was time to require employees to get vaccinated after learning two employees had died of Covid-19. The effort, one of the largest of its kind, worked. https://t.co/pqvTyHsEnj

3:21 PM · Oct 3, 2021

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I can't believe the other airlines are taking so long to implement vaccine mandates. They work.

Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias

This sure seems bad

wsj.com

China’s Power Shortfalls Begin to Ripple Around the World