"As homebuilding consolidated, and an institutional asset ownership class emerged, the big builders started working with Wall Street to craft single family homes from scratch that would never go on the market. This “Build to Rent” sector took off..."
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-senat...
“The project felt like destiny; finally, I was merging my skillset as a librarian with my experience as a skateboarder.” 📚🛹
My email is an endless stream of “upgrade to get access to—“
I don’t want it. I want to downgrade. I want to get less access. I want the opposite of what you’re selling.
Next Wednesday in New Bedford. www.whalingmuseum.org/program/secr...
Diva down
How did Derek and Ezra miss all this abundance? cepr.net/publications...
"depravity economy".
Get ready for some "warflation": higher prices for oil, gas, food (lots of fertilizer passes through Hormuz), goods made with petrochemicals (umbrellas, shampoo, toys, etc.), and pretty much anything that needs to be transported anywhere.
Affordability! open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
It's Bandcamp Friday. Get after it. fugazi.bandcamp.com/track/smallp...
Time to get over to that Burlngton MA facility and do some oversight.
Afternoon jam. Some songs are just inseparable from the video part they appeared in www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_by...
The title is a bit clickbaity, but the premise of the article is solid. Responsibility for health is pushed onto the individual, ignoring the need for collective and legislative action to address structural issues. Good Read www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Love this. "It was about taking back control of an economy run by rent-seeking tech companies that will jack up prices until the day they drop you." by a "a volunteer-run multinational automotive company in the making"
" “He’s got his vector pointed on what is important to him and doesn’t get caught up in the snares of life and the temptations of convenience. " Rest Easy.
backcountrymagazine.com/stories/reme...
A blood-red moon will soon grace the skies for a total lunar eclipse.
A graph showing the change in share of all income going to each quintile and top 5 percent. Comparing 1974 to 2024. Shows rich getting richer to the detriment of everyone else
The answer is in the title cepr.net/publications...
From "malignant horniness" to "Mein Cringe". Good read
Good read
Two roads diverged in a yellowed wood….
Normalize candidates with views like this "“There is genuinely a fundamental lack of representation for working people in federal office right now, and that has serious, substantive effects on what kind of policies they actually prioritize and what they pass,” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Email newsletters are really filling a void for me right now, and this is a good one. Look forward to it each week
"In an age where the endless pursuit of capital is as insatiable as it is unavoidable and stupid, especially when it comes to the scourge of private equity whose only concern is wringing everything it can from a company before discarding its bones to whoever is willing to pay for them..."
Really good read. "But we cannot fix these problems without confronting their source: a legal system designed by lawyers, for lawyers, and exploited by the wealthy to manufacture scarcity." data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-regula...
A wild tale. Respect to this family that fought for their right to feed themselves.
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