This would have near zero impact on the New York housing market. We are talking about several hundred condos at absolute max, compared to >30k homes for sale in the city today. There are powerful programs we can and should pursue to diminish market power. This is not one of them.
Misinformation spreads rapidly online. In response, Facebook & @Twitter have suggested using ordinary users as fact checkers. But our new #OpenAccess article, in the inaugural issue of @journalsafetech, finds this is likely not a viable solution 1/ https://t.co/IMWFPR76FK
feel like it should be a bigger story that counties and municipalities straight up do not have control of the armed agents of the state https://t.co/bD6GXWJXpC
Demonstrating that you’re impervious to reason and argument, and then demanding others try to convince you with reason and argument as you continue embracing falsehoods, is asking reasonable people to waste time arguing with you, while you ignore them and keep imposing on others.
This proposed Crown Heights development included 1,578 rental units, 789 of them affordable.
Instead, the developer will build 500 market-rate condos and no affordable units, which will be by right and not subject to objections from a botanic garden not open to the public.
Can't wait for Eric Adams to lobby against congestion pricing when he realizes people driving into Manhattan from New Jersey every day are going to have pay a toll.
Why is misinformation & disinformation such a hard policy problem? One big reason, from our new study: People are wildly overconfident. Put simply: Everyone thinks they are smart & everyone else stupid. Third-person perception issue. https://t.co/2UHixklmtQ
"health care prices as captured in the PPI and PCE price indices are driven in large part by the reimbursement decisions of the federal government rather than by conventional macroeconomic forces" https://t.co/xkm0pywpha PS deep dive by @M_C_Klein inflation
A former president sent a letter to a secretary of state asking him to decertify the election, a slow escalation from the reinstatement talk of a few months ago, and everyone wants to avert their gaze. Maybe someone will get a sponge.