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Cars were subtracted, but pedestrians weren't added. The direct cost of this policy is pretty obvious. When people can't park in a parking garage on Market, and when Uber and Lyft can't pick people up and drop people off on the street, it makes businesses on the street less attractive to visit.

Noah Smith
3w ago

High-skilled immigrants don't compete with locals for a fixed pool of jobs; they lure investment to an area, so that the pool of jobs expands. This second effect, more often than not, outweighs the competitive effect, so that native-born Americans actually benefit from the presence of foreign skilled workers.

1mo ago

I remember after Sandy Hook, President Barack Obama said that if a tragedy of such enormity didn't change hearts, minds, and legislation, then nothing would. I'm afraid he might have been right.

3mo ago

Dismissing the whole idea of industrial policy out of hand — as the World Bank and others did in the 1990s — is simply a policy of self-imposed ignorance.

5mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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