We’re correctly being lectured on how idiotic our trade policy is by Brazil, that’s how bad things have gotten.

The Wirecutter’s top car seat is $230 up from $160 earlier this year. Some of the most popular strollers have gone up 20-30%. The thing where Trump just randomly waived a wand and raised the price of a bunch of stuff on parents seems pretty unreported by the media.

Yes! Many prefer Korean sunscreen because the U.S. treats sunscreen as a drug, not a cosmetic, creating regulatory hurdles that have blocked new UV filters since 1999. Now we’re slapping tariffs on Korean imports while making it nearly impossible to innovate at home.

Europe has fully filled the gap in US aid to Ukraine

Would you rather an economy run by 100% coverage of:

Summer cut done

Last week, California passed a landmark law exempting many infill housing developments from CEQA. Here’s how we can do the same thing on a national level, exempting urban infill housing from NEPA.

ICE is eating the federal budget. Thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill, we will spend more this year on ICE than on most other law enforcement agencies *combined.* wapo.st/3U4Lc4s

➡️ If California’s rental prices matched the national average, its poverty rate would fall from the highest in the nation to near the U.S. average.

➡️ In California's highest-cost cities, each 1% increase in housing supply could reduce child poverty rates by 0.3%.

Fascinating insight here from Stefanie Stantcheva: "People with more formal education are less likely to see the world as zero-sum but the pattern flips among the highly educated: those with PhDs often show the strongest zero-sum beliefs"

This is really funny The neighbors, NIMBY, sue over new, more YIMBY zoning code. The city, incompetent, misses filing deadline, forfeits the case. *But* b/c the city repealed the old zoning code to pass the new one, its loss means all zoning is gone. Total YIMBY victory

Q4 2024 - The processing time for I-90 forms averaged 0.8 months. Q1 2025 - The processing time for I-90 forms averaged 8.3 months.

At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine. One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."

45% of copper is imported. The two largest uses of copper are in electrical and power generation (40-45%) and building construction (25-30%). Thankfully we don’t have any noticeable needs around increased power generation or building say, more housing.

The experience of congestion pricing and parking reform is really funny. 1. Experts tell legislators to do a thing for decades. 2. Legislators do nothing. 3. A movement forms behind expert consensus. 4. Everyone predicts a backlash. 5. It's an enormous success.

I got that classic Yankee hospitality

And half of product’s job is just figuring out what customers want and they have no idea what they want…