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1/OK, so. Let's talk about Left-NIMBYism. We all know about Right-NIMBYs, rabidly protecting their white-flight suburbs from Those People. And there are plenty of liberal NIMBYs too. But NIMBYs of
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1/Today in @bopinion, I talk about the legacy and career of Jim Simons, the founder of Renaissance Technologies, who is stepping down as the hedge fund's chairman.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-16/investing-legend-ja
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1/OK, let's take a little break from Coup Twitter, and think about an economic issue: How can we build up the wealth of the middle class?https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/housing-and-wealth-building 2/The typical American has
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1/I decided to write about America's Cold Civil War, and when it might end, and what might be done to hasten its end.I'm biased, and I'm not an expert on
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1/Alright, gather round, friends, and let me tell you the story of 1930s Japan, and how it's a cautionary tale for 2020s America.https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/japanese-lessons-for-the-american 2/Everyone knows that Japan became mili
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1/OK, let's talk about the COLLEGE APOCALYPSE. Coronavirus, with a bit of help from Trump, is going to smash the U.S. university system. And it's going to smash the economic
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1/America is not yet prepared for the massive effort we will need to produce and distribute vaccines.Because we're still only thinking about the FIRST vaccination drive. There may be more.https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-vaccine-wa
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1/Alright, so folks wanted me to expand on this idea, so here we go. Elite disaffection and the return of the American Left.As you may have noticed, we're seeing an
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1/Today in @bopinion, I discuss why America has been producing too many PhDs in recent years, and what we need to do to solve the problem.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-04/america-is-pumping-out-too-many-ph-d-s?sref=R8Nf
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1/Let's take a break from pandemics and civil wars, and talk about...life expectancy!https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/answering-the-techno-pessimists-part 2/Over the past month, I've been writing some "techno-optimist" po
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1/OK let's talk about immigration and wages.Lots of people think immigration reduces wages, at least for some groups of native-born workers.It is very difficult if not impossible to dissuade them
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1/Who will put $600 to better use -- Scrooge, or Tiny Tim?A Christmas economics explainer.https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/should-you-give-600-to-scrooge-or 2/A few people claim that Scrooge would put $600 to better use, because he'd s
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