Skyscrapers and Land Values: Evidence from Chicago on the Costs of Building Tall Cities
Why “building tall” is not an answer to urban housing affordability.
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Naked Capitalism Hit One Million Comments!
We set a new comments milestone!
Read more...The Nation Depicts a Mortgage Vulture Who Foreclosed on Homeowners as an FDR-Like Hero To Demonize Chase When It Was Actually Helping Homeowners
The Nation and author David Dayen lionize a mortgage vulture, telling a story as wrong as it is possible to be in its thesis and details.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Pickup Sales Boom, Cars Get Crushed, Tesla Deliveries Plunge
Car sales hit an air pocket in October.
Read more...Reminder – Philadelphia Meetup Today, Starting at 5:00 PM!
If you are in the Philadelphia area today, please be sure to stop by our meetup. Looking forward to seeing you!
Read more...The Economic Consequences of Martin Luther: The Protestant Reformation and the Allocation of Resources in Europe
How the Protestant Reformation transformed not only Western Europe’s religious landscape, but also its politics and economy.
Read more...Links 11/1/17
Third Way Democrats Double Down on Anti-90% Agenda With More Attacks on Public Schools
The Democrats are sticking firmly to their anti-middle class ways, as their renewed attacks on public schools show.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Resistance, the #Resistance and Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein epitomized the Democratic party elite. And there is remarkably little willingness to acknowledge that fact.
Read more...Falling Pound Might Not Bring UK Trade Balance Boost
More confirmation that a cheaper pound won’t help the UK’s trade balance.
Read more...40.3 Million Slaves: Challenging the Hypocrisy of Modern Slavery Statistics
Reports on slavery whitewash how European countries foster inequality and exploitation, as well as try to impose their values.
Read more...Links 10/31/17
Catalonia Secession Becomes Damp Squib as Catalans Accept Direct Rule
The Catalonia secession fantasy dies a quick death.
Read more...What Do Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Dick Cheney, Oprah Winfrey, Erin Brockovich, Stephen Hawking, Harrison Ford, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Jon Krakauer, Michelle Obama, Dan Rathers, Malcolm Gladwell, and Yours Truly Have in Common? Smeared by a Soros-Funded Think Tank for Appearing on RT
Another day, another McCarthyite blacklist, this one of people who have appeared on RT, which turns out to be quite a star-studded list.
Read more...An Environmental and Public Health Disaster Awaits—If USDA Gives Organic Label to Hydroponics
A big cause for pause about a planned change in what the USDA considers “organic” to mean.
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