Losing Money Every Month: Growing Finance Crisis Threatens Affordable Housing, Challenges Mamdani
Landlords of affordable apartments say the numbers increasingly don’t add up — and a rent freeze will work against tenants.
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Links 11/19/2025
“European Nations Have No Choice but to Raise Retirement Ages – Our Case Study Shows Why”
Citizens in EU states have been rebelling against social program cuts, like pension reforms. Are changes in the retirement age necessary?
Read more...Top of the BoP and Other Trump Fantasies From the Battlefields of Ukraine and Gaza to the Shores of Pakistan and Venezuela – This Is How The US Is Retreating
As Helmer said by e-mail, “The Trump formula is retreat=negotiations plus covert operations.”
Read more...Public Money, Private Innovation: How Government Funding Built – and Sustains – America’s Technological Leadership
More evidence that publicly funded research is disproportionately productive and hence critical to innovation.
Read more...Links 11/18/2025
Rob Urie: American Decline in Three Parts
Rob Urie looks at a trifecta of failure: a looming Ukraine loss in Ukraine, desperation among workers, and the unfixable problems with generative AI
Read more...Godzilla v. Mothra: How Google Is Winning Struggle Among AI Giants to Control News Flow
How a few platforms control how news travels, shaping what we see, starving journalism, and locking new AI rivals out of data voters need.
Read more...As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Community groups and ICE protestors have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks to help neighbors sound the alarm.
Read more...Yet More AI Bubble Worries, Now on Debt Side, with Wall Street Journal Featuring AI Datacenter Borrowing “Frenzy”
Peeling back another layer of the AI onion, today on datacenter financing.
Read more...Links 11/15/2025
This Car-Free Neighborhood Was Designed to Revolutionize American Cities
A discussion with the founder of Culdesac, a real estate developer devoted to building walkable neighborhoods.
Read more...Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings
Time to cheer a legal win against the surveillance state, here the use of massive spycams by a vendor called Flock.
Read more...MAGA Is a NATO Racket – Trump’s 5% Military Budget Hike to Fight Russia Stokes Corruption In Estonia
Yapping dog Estonia is out to take the lead among NATO members not only in arms spending to GDP but also in open corruption.
Read more...More and More Young People Disengaged from Work and Social Contact
Unemployment among young graduates has hit a sustained high level in many countries, which will produce further social and economic harm.
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