'The anti-racist case for cutting property taxes' is one of the most deranged things I have ever read

I cannot believe TurboTaxSucksAss.Sucks is real

Political orgs spend wild amounts of money on ads, but on TV, the FCC Lowest Unit Charge rule makes these ads far cheaper for campaigns than for other political entities. How much cheaper? At WAGA in GA, 2022, Warnock paid $1,200 for a slot that cost the DSCC $3,000!

Wise prophet: Artificial intelligence will make you much richer

Public: That's good!

Prophet: It will also cause many of you to lose your jobs.

Public: That's bad!

Prophet: But the first to go will be investment bankers

Public: That's very good!

nytimes.com/2024/04/10/bus…

The last word on OJ

youtube.com/watch?v=SPEj6l…

Share of people living on under $30 per day in 2019 (roughly the US poverty line), by country

ourworldindata.org/grapher/povert…

'There’s .. a disconnect between the levels of clean technology deemed necessary by Washington when talking about climate change, and the levels considered excessive when confronting China.' Nice piece on the Biden admin's new anti-green mercantilism. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

“…we have a new generation of board members coming in that have a different view on housing for a very simple reason: that they’re at a stage in life where they’re still trying to find housing.” thecity.nyc/2024/04/10/man…

Sotomayor:

1. There is upside to her doing a strategically timed retirement

2. There is no downside

3. She is of the normal age for an American to retire

4. Everyone knows 1-3

5. Most Democrats in congress are pretending not to know this

Great piece by Robert McClelland on my favorite charitable deduction reform idea: take it out of the tax code and convert it to a government matching grant

Simplifies taxes and as a bonus, studies suggest matches provide > incentive to give than deductions

taxpolicycenter.org/publications/e…

Excuse me

The deadliest jobs in the US in 2022

I didn't realize roofing was so perilous

bls.gov/charts/census-…

Love this ῳɛŋɖı 🦣 piece on the history of artemisinin, the anti-malaria miracle drug created by a secret Chinese military project to help North Vietnam beat the Americans

asimov.press/p/antimalarial…

Appreciate Santi Ruiz/Jennifer Erickson /Greg Segal highlighting this: 'In the United States, only 2-3% percent of deaths are organ donation-eligible'

That makes the fact that 1/4 of eligible organs *aren't* getting donated all the more galling

statecraft.pub/p/how-to-stop-…

Journalism is when you put 'SCOOP: ' in front of something extremely boring and probably already public

Textbook economics is correct about trade

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

For many people, especially when (as now) interest rates are high, the unrecoverable costs of home ownership are far greater than those of renting. You pay interest and property tax and the huge opportunity cost of not investing in stocks.

This is just sentimentalism