Clr Martin Smith is going to court to block new housing to preserve his childhood nostalgia

🧵Thread on Gabriel Zucman's claim that billionaires pay a lower tax rate than the average American, as published in yesterday's The New York Times.

The short version: Zucman manipulates his data to fit a pro-tax political narrative. You can see this by comparing to his own earlier work.

Canberra is reducing student visas, stifling a lucrative export industry, because of a shortage of student housing.
Meanwhile (from the Randwick council minutes):
randwick.nsw.gov.au/about-us/news/…

It seems pretty clear that Trump will not get a trial for his election/J6 related crimes before this November. A terrible result, and an indictment of the US Justice system, that 4 years was not enough time to even bring the case to trial. Justice deferred is justice denied.

next time you’re worried about the american economy, take a look at this graph

Less than 1,400 units of housing were permitted in the San Francisco metro area last quarter, the lowest amount since Q1 2012. Total disaster

For context, metro Austin permitted 8,400 units and metro DC permitted 5,600 over the same time period. Even metro Omaha permitted 1,900.

The most important code to raise awareness!

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Two facts about negative gearing:

1) Negative gearing is not a tax concession.
2) Negative gearing has a negligible effect on house prices.

That, despite these two facts, negative gearing occupies such a large share of policy debate in Australia is strange and disappointing.

Every House member who voted against Taiwan aid was Republican.

This is a preview of how the MAGA movement will react to an attack on Taiwan. It'll pull the same stuff it pulled on Ukraine.

$1.2m for these, 45km from the CBD. It cannot be overstated what a disaster this is, even if we stopped doing this tomorrow it will take decades to fix

A list of things to do today:

Wake Up

Eat Breakfast

Get dressed

Go to Frog’s house

Take walk with Frog

Eat lunch

Take nap

Play game with Frog

Eat supper

Go to sleep

The fuse is getting closer to the powder keg.

« C’était mieux avant », vraiment ?

En 1950, plus d’un enfant sur 5 mourrait avant l’âge de 5 ans.

1 sur 27 aujourd’hui.

The Israelis are evicting Palestinians from East-Jerusalem house by house. It is a deliberate and systematic endeavor with the connivence of the justice and police authorities using the complexities of the Ottoman era land registry.

It is much more simple and « pedestrian ». European countries are not ready to pay the financial and economic price of fully and effectively supporting Ukraine.

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996)
Cinematography by Guillermo Navarro
Directed by Robert Rodriguez
Submitted by Max Kemeny

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The last year has been a lot of cognitive dissonance for me. Inside the AI world, there's non-stop talk about the unprecedented pace of AI improvement. But when I look at the broader economy, I struggle to find examples of transformative change I can write about.