Archive for March, 2009
Take That, Richard Florida.
Old, stable populations are a good thing. Richard Florida doesn’t agree. But then, he’s an ass.
Lots of people question my vehement, personal enmity toward the man. Why do I take him so personally and waste so much energy hating him? Several ideas come readily to mind:
His dog and pony show reels in public officials who [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2009 under Economics, Pittsburgh, Urbanism.
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A Nation of Tenants
One thing that’s bugging me as I read thru the copious commentary on how America should solve it’s housing problems is the increasingly constant refrain that we should stop striving for high levels of homeownership - as if homeownership as an institution got us into this mess.
Homeownership is the idea that you will eventually no [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2009 under Economics.
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Pork?
It’s interesting that I have heard about 10 different news sources today talking about how much pork is in the new Federal spending bill that the President is signing today, almost all of whom are mentioning Amtrak as one of those pork projects which is ‘popular with Democrats’.
Let’s look at what sort of pork was actually there:
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Posted: March 11th, 2009 under Economics, I'm a Limp-Wristed Leftist!, Travel.
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It’s Hard to Be Optimistic…
When you read stuff like this.
But then I think about stuff like this and this, and I at least feel a little better about my chances to live some future life despite the coming banker-junta.
Posted: March 25th, 2009 under Economics, Pittsburgh.
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