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Patrick McKenzie
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They nerfed furusato nouzei.

furusato-tax.jp/contents/legal…
"Did you intentionally try to make that as opaque as possible?"

Furusato Nouzei: kalzumeus.com/2018/10/19/jap…
Nerf: urbandictionary.com/define.php?ter…
The longer form would be: "Recent legislation affecting Japan's hometown tax system has decreased the amount of compensation municipalities can bid for tax-advantaged donations, restricted compensation to locally-sourced goods instead of cash equivalents, and tightened rules."
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The chancellor/provost/etc of a university, even a very good university, does not wake up in the morning and F5 on his undergrads’ employment numbers.

They have arguments as to why. (“It’s déclassé! That suggests that the purpose of the university is job prep!”)
There’s an old chestnut that you get what you measure. A refinement on it is that you *deserve* to get the thing that you measure, in the same way that you deserve others to deal with you like they know what your dashboard lists in the top left.
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USNWR rankings, major donations, various prestige events like faculty winning a Nobel or making a key hire, what their peer set is doing, and (during admissions season only) yield rate and a few other metrics.

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Patrick McKenzie
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This is good advice generally and *particularly* good advice when you’re in that stage of growth where being the go to X for a platform can materially impact your growth curve.
Addendum to it: get to know actual named humans at the platform company. Every program is made out of people; good relations will keep you at the top of the list (metaphorical or absolutely literal) and probably help you get better terms than they’d offer by default.
And if you are heavily platform dependent and something goes wrong you want to be able to place a phone call to God rather than sending an email to /dev/null.
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There is some brutal competition for retail deposits right now and I think the banks are getting sophisticated about balancing interest rates and consumers’ who satisfice versus those who optimize.

They can probably afford to lose the latter.
There have been higher-yielding options for retail for at least 25 years now but I think mobile banking substantially changes the game, because there was previously some friction in getting money in and getting it out, and now it’s single digit taps on your always-on computer.
I wonder who decides to give this away (to the extent that regulators will let them)? Maybe Wealthfront?

Capital One, Marcus (Goldman Sachs), Ally, Amex, and at least a few others all have options here, but Wealthfront and maybe Robinhood seem to be indifferent to net interest.
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