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Derek Kaufman

@EconDerek

Founder&CEO @inclsvabundance: https://t.co/2N11JTBvya;#HistoryOfScience;❤️🏃🏻‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🥾;26.2 in 2:59:29;3 boys w/@leorahorwitzmd

Greenwich, CT Katılım Şubat 2017
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Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸
Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸@GaryWinslett·
What happened with the housing package is important in its own right but it's also a preview of choices that Democrats will face again and again in cost-of-living policy. We can focus on creating a society that builds or focus on finding someone to blame. therebuild.pub/p/populist-pan…
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Ramez Naam
Ramez Naam@ramez·
Ethanol mandates are in direct conflict with feeding the world, have no impact on American energy security, and are at best neutral for climate (probably negative). Kill them with fire. Sink them with the Jones Act.
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24

About five percent of the total caloric production of the world goes to making ethanol, which doesn’t even reduce emission! Learn why we should get rid of the Renewable Fuel Standard here: nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/get-rid-of-t…

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The NAM
The NAM@ShopFloorNAM·
As first shared by @axios, a new report released today by the NAM and @JoinFAI shows our broken permitting system is costing manufacturers in America $7.9 billion each year—underscoring the urgent need for bipartisan, comprehensive permitting reform to strengthen America’s economic and national security. Full report: nam.org/issues/permitt…
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Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸
Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸@GaryWinslett·
When the Trump admin pays ZERO political price for waiving the Jones Act, that will be very helpful in showing both parties it’s been a paper tiger this whole time. Not only is there no substantive reason to have the Jones Act, there’s no *political* reason to have it either.
Colin Grabow@cpgrabow

Waiver less than 24 hours old and foreign ships are already being chartered. Each of these voyages represents a cost savings. If cheaper Jones Act-compliant alternatives were available, they would have been used. Shows the existence of demand the JA fleet couldn't meet.

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Derek Kaufman@EconDerek·
“Ehrlich helped give an imprimatur of scholarly authority to a new kind of politics—a politics of scarcity—that has proved enduring in American life.” Excellent summary of left- and right-wing scarcity in America
The Atlantic@TheAtlantic

Paul Ehrlich built his reputation on radical solutions to avoid what he believed was the planet’s imminent destruction, but there’s something about human ingenuity that the now-deceased scientist failed to understand, @JakeAnbinder argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

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Derek Kaufman@EconDerek·
Obviously I’m biased, but this is some great inside baseball from @bailleebrown
Inclusive Abundance@InclsvAbundance

NEW in The Abundant Future: The Senate just passed a housing bill that was originally focused on building more rather than a rehashing of the usual subsidy playbook. But at the last minute, it included a provision that could kill new construction – prioritizing a popular talking point over good policy. Our own @BailleeBrown on how the abundance movement should view this win, our frustration, and what comes next:

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Owen Lewis
Owen Lewis@is_OwenLewis·
🧵 1/14: Just days after Paul Ehrlich (the man whose 1968 book “The Population Bomb” predicted billions would starve) passed away, it’s the perfect moment to celebrate the scientist who proved Ehrlich and other doomsayers spectacularly wrong. Meet Norman Borlaug, the Iowa farm boy who launched the Green Revolution and quite literally saved a billion lives. This is the ultimate story of human ingenuity triumphing over scarcity.
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Inclusive Abundance
Inclusive Abundance@InclsvAbundance·
Love to see this leadership on geothermal – a key element of energy abundance – from the bipartisan Build America Caucus. From today’s @POLITICOPro Morning Energy:
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Rachel Cohen Booth@rcobooth·
definitely an implicit undercurrent of this debate is the assumption that buying homes is better than renting them. I rent a house and I’m so glad I can. Maybe that math will change one day for me, maybe it won’t
Eric Levitz@EricLevitz

Elizabeth Warren's crackdown on corporate homebuilding is wildly regressive. Not only would the policy reduce the supply of housing - it would also require some landlords to oust their tenants en masse, so that wealthier families can purchase their homes vox.com/politics/48286…

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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
This is the problem, from a national economic perspective, with coastal housing scarcity — the population growth should be happening in the places that are richer but instead the reverse is happening.
James Medlock@jdcmedlock

It's actually worse than I thought. Catch up growth assumes red states are growing faster on a per capita basis, but they're not. Hanania's charts were not per capita, so basically just measuring population growth. Red states are poorer, but they are also not converging.

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Max Dubler, AICP 🏳️‍🌈
Max Dubler, AICP 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler·
This is an extremely important point. The chief beneficiaries of single family rental housing are not corporate landlords but the tenants who get to live in single family homes they otherwise could not afford.
Eric Levitz@EricLevitz

Elizabeth Warren's crackdown on corporate homebuilding is wildly regressive. Not only would the policy reduce the supply of housing - it would also require some landlords to oust their tenants en masse, so that wealthier families can purchase their homes vox.com/politics/48286…

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David Shor
David Shor@davidshor·
Excited to be on Odd Lots to talk about the politics of AI. AI today is less important than it will ever be. Over the past year, AI rose in issue importance faster than any issue we track — it's now more important to voters than climate change, child care, and abortion.
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Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart

Reminder. @tracyalloway and I are interviewing @davidshor and @ByrneHobart tomorrow about the politics of and prospects for a white collar wipeout. Should be a really fun, uplifting conversation. Come by and say hi

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Derek Kaufman@EconDerek·
“Moreover, there are versions of the build-to-rent model that can’t be sold off easily. Some built-to-rent communities are made up of townhouses placed close to one another on a single parcel of land that cannot be subdivided without violating local zoning ordinances.”
Andrew Ackerman@amacker

"Congress could ultimately decrease the number of rental units built each year by at least 72,000, meaning its package to expand the supply of housing... would actually reduce housing development." urban.org/urban-wire/sen…

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Thomas Hochman
Thomas Hochman@ThomasHochman·
Happy Monday, let’s reform some permitting
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Catherine Vaughan
Catherine Vaughan@CV0·
Appreciate @InclsvAbundance’s critical work on federal abundance policy — and it was fun to write about how the movement has grown here in New York! Check out @Abundance_NY’s guest post here 👇🏼
Inclusive Abundance@InclsvAbundance

NEW in The Abundant Future: @CV0 of @Abundance_NY provides an on-the-ground perspective about how abundance has brought a new political order to New York. @NYCMayor and @GovKathyHochul may seem worlds apart, but they’ve come together around one crucial thing: delivering more of what New Yorkers need, faster. And they’re both stronger for it. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/theabundan…

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Jerusalem
Jerusalem@JerusalemDemsas·
I wrote about the “messenger class”—the journalists, academics, tech workers, nonprofit leaders, and political professionals who set the boundaries of public debate. The problem with media bias is often oversimplified to "they're too left wing" but the real problem is far more difficult to counteract. theargumentmag.com/p/shoot-the-me…
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