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1 Jul, 11 tweets, 4 min read
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PODCAST: "Hexapodia" Is þe Key Insight XX: Five-Item Grab-Bag: Vaccination & Votes; NIMBYism & California Growth, Aversion to UI, Google’s Quality, & Wilhelmine Germany & Contemporary China... 1/

Noah Smith & Brad DeLong's 30:00 < [Length of Weekly
... Podcast] < 60:00

Zach Carter, who was supposed to be our guest this week, has a cold. So we have a grab-bag: vaccination & votes, NIMBYism & California growth, aversion to continuing UI, Google’s quality as a search engine, & Wilhelmine Germany & Contemporary China... 2/
...Key Insights: 1. Red states will see a lot of COVID-hurt this summer fall and winter for… reasons we still find incomprehensible… 2. NIMBYism has not killed California growth because monkey-smarts are becoming, relatively, less important as a factor of production… 3/
...The right response to those who advocate cutting off UI now is Ezra Klein’s: “My God! Let people have a minute!”... 4. Google can be a useful search engine, if only for your own backlist, if you can remember eight unusual words you used to write down your thoughts the... 4/
...e last time you thought seriously about something... 5. There are too many parallels between Wilhelmine Germany back before World War I and China today for us to sleep easy; the best we can hope is that Marx was right when he said that, when history repeats, the... 5/
...first time it is tragedy, the second time farce… 6.
Hexapodia!

References:

Geoffrey Fowler: Google’s Search Results Have Gotten Worse: <washingtonpost.com/technology/202…>... 6/
...Michael Hiltzik: Is California Really Anti-Business? Don’t Tell Our Economy <latimes.com/business/story…>... 7/
...Ezra Klein & Betsey Stevenson: Transcript <nytimes.com/2021/06/18/pod…>... 8/
...Seth Masket: Correlation of Biden vote share & adult Covid vaccination rate [state-by-state] is now at .847. (CDC data)… <>... 9/
...Chad Stone: May Job Growth Strong But Unemployment Insurance Reform Still Needed <cbpp.org/blog/may-job-g…>... 10/
...
Matthew Winkler: California Defies Doom With No. 1 U.S. Economy <bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…> 11/END

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