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Coming to U.S. For Baby, and Womb to Carry It: Foreign Couples (2014)(nytimes.com)
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There should be an app where different services (Uber/Lyft/Gett/Via/Arro (which is Yellow Cabs) bid on a ride and the lowest bid gets the ride. That would help to fix this problem. In NYC I had noticed that Uber was cha
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The reason that housing is expensive and perhaps that mental illness rates go up is because of politically induced market failure in the form of zoning density restrictions. It is an artificial constraint that is readily fixed. See my pos
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Cities such as NYC, SF, LA, DC, Boston, London, (and region of SV)....are very special cities that are magnets of creativity and wealth creation marrying engineering and other creativity with finance. In pre-WWII, Budapest and Vienna were
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by davidf18 10y ago
A problem is that many of the higher paying jobs are in cities such as NYC, SF, LA, Boston, DC, (also London, ...) and the housing is expensive in these cities because of "rent-seeking" -- a market failure or market inefficiency c
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by davidf18 10y ago
I live in NYC, but have also lived in Boston, London, Paris, Tel Aviv during my professional life. These are fun cities with lots of young professionals with many things to do. There is lots of networking and international communities. L
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> "Again, this was already done years ago in multiple different cities and hasn't worked. (As you already mentioned yourself)." I don't recall mentioning that it hadn't worked, precisely because the rent-seeking,
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I would like to suggest that we try fixing the rent-seeking zoning density restrictions and if that for some reason doesn't work, then try another plan to further stimulate the construction. But, again, my bet is the economists are ri
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There should be a rule for down voting that people should justify. The information is factual is the reasons the Democrats lost a very winnable election.
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I respectfully disagree as does the economists. Lowering the cost of land thorough fixing the artificial scarcity will encourage builders to build. Some might want to restrict housing, but other will build. Just curious if you read the ar
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Tech wanted cheap labor and Trump was for fairness which is one reason why tech leadership was against Trump. President Obama could have fixed this years ago, but after all he was big buddies with tech. Check out the photo in this picture
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Yes, I'm certain as are the expert economists as is the evidence presented in these articles. Tokyo's Affordable Housing Strategy: Build, Build, Build https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/08&
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This is an article written by acclaimed author Thomas Frank ("What's the Matter with Kansas", "Listen, Liberal") in July 2016. The Democrats ignored the message and Trump was elected as a result. https:/&#x2
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The reason for the high cost of housing is "rent-seeking", a market inefficiency or market failure, which in this case is using zoning density restrictions to create artificial scarcity in housing. Scarcity causes higher prices.
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> "I speak 6 human languages" Impressive!
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> "2 years later she's made the honor roll twice." :-)
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Anti-missle system. "Having been officially declared operational, David's Sling completes the army's three-tier missile defense array. David's Sling is a medium-range interceptor, developed with United States backing, f
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'Those who want to beat us will be defeated': Israel's David's Sling goes live(i24news.tv)
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The $20K per year per pupil that NYC (and other large cities) spends is skewed because of the enormous costs of special education. I don't know the numbers for NYC, but from an article I saw about Philly: cost to educate non-special n
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Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley (2016)(nytimes.com)
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Less than $120 / month (or about $30 per week) unlimited subway/bus pass is really quite a bargain. Perhaps the best bargain in NYC.
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> "...but not as much as Comey's last minute lie about finding a laptop full of Hillary emails." Comey did find emails on a laptop confiscating during an investigation of Anthony Weiner because Weiner was texting/sext
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The Israelis have their own modified version of the F-15, the F-15I. Some of the mods are done at the factory and some done in Israel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15E_Strike...
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Don't you think that its strange that the UK can't train enough nurses (sisters) and has to import nurses from poorer countries? I guess the nationwide (near) monopoly on healthcare, the National Health Service (NHS) will have to
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The Register: Your internet history on sale to highest bidder: US Congress votes to shred ISP privacy rules https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/28/congress_approves_s... "Now, the really big question i
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The first part of the 2nd Ave subway line to 96th St in NYC was completed a couple of months ago. The cost of the extension was prohibitively expensive because of unions. Europe is able to build subways with much less cost per mile than N
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> "The city council is, after all, composed of wealthy people who own land in the city." I can't speak for your city but in NYC, I'm not certain if any member of the city council is wealthy. I know my representative
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> "It may be desirable that we remove the artificial scarcity, but it is also a distraction from the core question at hand." I respectfully disagree and so does Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser who has written extensively about
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Replacing 4 story Brownstones with high-rise apartments. Simply removing the politically induced scarcity of zoning density restrictions would achieve that or something similar. See my earlier comment to this post: https://news.
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> "It's one thing to support laws and regulations that happen to benefit Trump," But these left-leaning people claim they want to help the working class and others and are worried about inequality, yet they are the major c

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