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RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/May 2024
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May 2024[edit]
![]() ![]() ![]() | -48 | How the Kremlin uses comics to glorify its war in Ukraine |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 48 | Why Is the Rent So Damn High? The Real Reason Will Shock You |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 45 | Vox on the US State Department's obscure intelligence agency, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), which has made correct predictions about e.g. Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine where other agencies failed. One reason cited in the article for the INR's possible relative success in making foreign policy predictions where e.g. the CIA failed, is simply the INR's reliance on more experienced experts, often recruited from academia. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | An old clip from 1980s sitcom Yes Prime Minister has been going around on social media, since the Conservatives announced they were planning to introduce national service for 18-year-olds in their 2024 general election manifesto. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | The Economic Implications of Housing Supply. Housing prices have been increasing in the US in recent years because regulation has made it much more difficult in cities like San Francisco, but the prices but haven’t increased everywhere. In Atlanta, for example, houses prices are about the same as they were in 1990 despite a big increase in population, because Atlanta has built more housing. But if empirical investigations of the local costs and benefits of restricting building
conclude that the negative externalities are not nearly large enough to justify the costs of regulation the welfare and output gains from reducing regulation of housing construction are large, then why don’t we see more policy interventions to permit more building in markets such as San Francisco? The great challenge facing attempts to loosen local housing restrictions is that existing homeowners do not want more affordable homes: they want the value of their asset to cost more, not less![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Who ran this derogatory prison meme page? A prison guard. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | NYC mayor Eric Adams falsely smeared a grandmother as an "outside agitator" to justify the NYPD assault on Columbia he ordered. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Why is a 6-week abortion ban nearly a total ban? It's about how we date a pregnancy. |