Chris Georges
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Chris Georges
A great new dataset on R&D's impact on state economies was released today:
New Mexico gets the highest share of its state GDP from R&D thanks to the Los Alamos & Sandia National Laboratories, but California makes up the highest share of national R&D output at 30%! https://t.co/Ca6uMary1u
I write this to you from New York City, where we are governed by Democrats and we pay the highest taxes in the country, but that doesn’t mean we receive the best government services. Our transportation agencies are black holes for money, unable to deliver on their capital plans despite repeated increases in the dedicated taxes that fund them,... See more
The blue cities must be fixed
Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
instagram.comTake a Ride on New York City’s Future Train Line
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MAS members have benefitted from a wonderful set of experiences over the past month that illuminate the complicated ways that the city has been shaped over the decades. The Department of Design and Construction hosted a hard-hat tour of the Eastside Coastal Resilience Project recently. The ECRP is the result of the lessons learned from Superstorm... See more
Elizabeth Goldstein • President’s Letter: October 2024 – The Municipal Art Society of New York
Permitting reform is really important. Basically, anything you want to build — housing, factories, infrastructure, energy, you name it — needs to be built on land. And since the 1970s, America has implemented a byzantine system of land-use permitting restrictions that make it very hard to build anything at all. NEPA and similar state laws, which... See more
At least five interesting things to start your week (#50)
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memoposted that a “[g]ood way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items” that benefit those lower on the economic ladder.
So, what did I learn from the 2024 election? I don't mean to be flippant, but if you're going to be a convicted felon with a history of sexually assaulting women who incited a mob to violently prevent the peaceful transfer of power, you praise Hitler and you call for the termination of the Constitution and you still want to be elected president to... See more
Harris Almost Won
Eric Adelstein from What Happens Next in 6 Minutes interview
Why prediction markets aren’t popular - Works in Progress
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