If you don't build new housing, rents rise in the old housing. If you do build new housing, rents fall in the old housing.

Moronic. It is not capitalism that is to blame, especially regarding college costs. College costs are due to government subsidization. The right isn't going to stop socialism by coming up with some right-wing version of it. You can't out Democrat a Democrat.

A map of the eiruv in the Jewish Quarter of Alexandria, Egypt, in 1923.

Josh Barro Its almost like...the market always wins.

R'Jonathan Sacks Fifth Yahrtzeit, 20 Cheshvan Today's Yahrtzeits

🧵 Reflecting on the legacy of Rabbi Sacks zt”l

He was shocked, shocked to discover that pay-for-slay was continuing as ever.

I’ve been critical of some of the current health initiatives, but this is a good & much-needed reform from the admin. The way to bring down costs for life-saving drugs is to increase competition & cut excessive bureaucracy skyrocketing development costs. bit.ly/4qSH0nN

A giant among giants, sorely missed.

Like a parent explaining to their toddler how money works.

Finally a good thing

So cool!

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I would say Har Sinai but in the most technical I was already there. So probably the Yam Suf. Choosing only things from Nach, dedication of the 1st Beit HaMikdash is number one, the Aron being brought to Yerushalayim high up there Eliyahu on Har Karmel is my underrated choice

Because the endowment is legally preallocated and can't just be tapped for any particular project regardless of imporance.. Happy to criticize Harvard for their idiocy and for the cowardice of people not standing up to the administration, but lets get the facts straight

I'm getting the sense that people don't understand how University endowments work.

Harvard deserves this, yes I have friends whose research has been affected, but the response is quite uneducated about how America got to be the leader in medical innovation and research.

"If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly." -Ronald Reagan You're deluding yourself into thinking "stabilizing rents" will somehow work