Keith Humphreys
@KeithNHumphreys
Esther Ting Memorial Professor at Stanford University. Public policy advisor, film buff, and native of West by God Virginia. Tweets are my personal opinions.
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The Royal Sonestas in Portland and Minneapolis have sold at over 90% discounts. Neither downtown really came back after COVID and riots, and both cities have high property crime and understaffed police departments.
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Denmark is raising its retirement age to 70. French election candidates pledge to reducing it to 60 or 62.
Denmark's debt to GDP ratio is 27%; France's is 117%.
You reap what you sow.
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Most common reason I reject editorials submitted to journals is that they attack "conventional wisdom" or "the received view" which no one holds, as evidenced by the fact that they don't cite anyone who supports the views they are critiquing. A lot of academics just can't let go of the self-image of brave rebel fighting the Establishment, even when they are in every way the embodiment of that Establishment.
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Bumble, the dating site founded on the idea of letting women initiate now allows men to make the first move because it's what their members' wanted. Not encouraging if your proposed solution to the lack of dating/relationships is women initiating more.
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Some activists and academics in San Francisco warned that Lurie's new policies would cause a huge surge in overdose deaths. Remember who those people were and never listen to them again.
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