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Thinking again about how I got an email from the JFCS Holocaust Center attacking Scott Wiener for (accurately) calling the razing of Gaza a genocide, but not a word about the invasion of Minneapolis that was then at its peak.
I was just thinking today about how it's probably incumbent on progressive Jewish officials at this point to publicly denounce ADL, and AJC too for that matter. We can't have a vacuum that allows casual observers to think these bigots represent us.
It's very likely that an oil shock helped to crater housing production in the 1970s and could be about to do so again. publiccomment.blog/p/the-housin...
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It's very likely that an oil shock helped to crater housing production in the 1970s and could be about to do so again. publiccomment.blog/p/the-housin...
If we're going to do "when has automation ever made people's lives easier" discourse, I encourage everyone to read book 1 of Caro's LBJ series, and in particular the part about what happened once the Texas Hill Country got electricity and people could suddenly put their clothes in washing machines.
Even though I'm an economist, I wish there was more focus on the human suffering from this war and less focus on the economic consequences. Hundreds of little girls are dead, and we're worried about oil prices.
American politics has drifted towards this collective position that the country doesn’t need tax revenue to run.
And while I’ve been anti-austerity-mongering my whole adult life having grown up in the wake of the bungled response to the GFC, this stuff makes me feel like a deficit hawk lmao
A chart showing housing production pluging by nearly 50% in the two years after 1973 and 1979, respectively.
For comparison's sake, here's what happened to new housing starts in the US during and after the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979. publiccomment.blog/p/the-housin...
IMO the Iran bombing is a reminder that there's no "liberal abundance"/"dark abundance" synthesis to be had. You can't make progress on housing w/ someone who will take a wrecking ball to the market at a moment's notice, much less by doing war crimes. publiccomment.blog/p/the-housin...
Something @sgoodyear.bsky.social points out that I'm reminded of each time people post about the war, gas prices and the need to switch to EVs is that the V in EV stands for "vehicle," not "car." E-bikes are EVs and cities need to create the conditions that will allow more people to adopt them.
Wrote up a quick post on how throttling traffic through the Strait of Hormuz could affect the American housing crisis. Short version: Bad! publiccomment.blog/p/the-housin...
IMO the Iran bombing is a reminder that there's no "liberal abundance"/"dark abundance" synthesis to be had. You can't make progress on housing w/ someone who will take a wrecking ball to the market at a moment's notice, much less by doing war crimes. publiccomment.blog/p/the-housin...
A chart showing housing production pluging by nearly 50% in the two years after 1973 and 1979, respectively.
For comparison's sake, here's what happened to new housing starts in the US during and after the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979. publiccomment.blog/p/the-housin...
Wrote up a quick post on how throttling traffic through the Strait of Hormuz could affect the American housing crisis. Short version: Bad! publiccomment.blog/p/the-housin...
Long term too, I suspect.
Ah, well, nevertheless.
I don't know what the right answer is in this particular situation, but it is true that the conversion of multifamily to single-family properties is a scourge in cities like San Francisco.
Struck by the fact that some of the same groups demanding this family convert their home back into four units to help relieve the housing shortage also oppose land use reforms to encourage the production of new housing. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/n...
If it really is the case that the median voter was just sick of the Biden economy, then congratulations, your wish has been granted
It’s not *always* the case that lighting the whole world on fire can cause a spike in rents—for one thing it can reduce demand for living in the world—but in this case I think it’s likely to cause a spike in rents
If you’re wondering what this is going to do to housing affordability, my best guess is very bad things
if you want to understand how trump talked himself into an war of choice to overthrow the government of iran, you have to start where all discussions of great wartime leaders start:
with french postmodernists and SUNSET BOULEVARD
this is what's so insulting about the obama bros or yglesias or grim claiming that this is just normal working class rough guy culture, it's not! i've had more wage jobs than all these dudes combined and have more tattoos than all of them combined, and i've only *ever* seen this on out-and-out nazis
The DSA (Democratic Shoupistas of America) mayor
People keep acting like Democrats need to tolerate a little dash of paranoid antisemitism if they want to reach the salt of the earth hoi polloi, but the reality is that paranoid antisemitism is more natively the politics of downwardly mobile scions of privilege, like Platner for example.
We need a complete and total moratorium on new Kennedys
CHOTINER: So I'm clear, you ate two burritos in one sitting?
ME: Absolutely not. No. I ate a burrito for lunch yesterday and another one today.
C: But you ordered them both simultaneously?
ME: Naturally I wanted the other one in reserve just in case.
C: Naturally. Just in case.
I think about this all the time. I think we'd be much further along the road to a durable autocratic regime but on the other hand we'd have dodged any number of other cataclysms.