Brian Asquith
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@basquith827
Economist at the @UpjohnInstitute. Research chiefly on "this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, hog-stomping, Baroque country of ours". And also rent control.
Big economic development projects these days typically take a lot of space, use a lot of electricity, and don’t generate that many jobs. Politics have to overcome this.
anyway, i think opposition to the micron fab puts data center opposition into perspective: there's just opposition to doing stuff, anything economically productive will be disuprtive in some respect, including/especially the type of development people claim to want
Different skylines, same mission 📍 Chicago and Charlotte, we’re excited to begin laying the early groundwork for our ride-hailing service as we prepare to serve the cities in the future.
It is reported that Enron cannot keep up with accounting meetings, and that its audit committee is not knowledgeable about the company’s financial situation. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opens an investigation into Enron’s finances.
In the last few years, St Paul enacted rent control. Meanwhile, nearby Minneapolis made it easier to build. Guess which one saw a boom in new contraction, and which saw a decline by 79%. Even without rent control, rents in Minneapolis went up less. When will we learn?
Nobody in this picture celebrated Diwali
