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Names are distractions; the patterns are ossified

The reason rent is unbearable and homelessness shapes our lives now is because the same small, self-reinforcing circle of elite thinkers has had a monopoly on โ€œserious economic ideasโ€ for forty years. Itโ€™s a closed ecosystem where columnists, policymakers, think-tank economists, and university insiders circulate one anotherโ€™s arguments until they harden into consensus. That consensus, […]

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A random thought

This is purely hypothetical, but let’s say you are an unpopular, economy destroying, rapist, swindler, president, who has had a barely concealed close relationship with a know pedophile. If some desperate autocrat, in a crumbling country, had, say video evidence of your misbehavior with underage girls, would you be willing to bend to that autocrats […]

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