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This @BrickU @Rentlogic ranking of the "best" landlords in Brooklyn is pretty interesting:
brickunderground.com/rent/best-broo…

Here is my @ProPublica expose on #3 on the list - Rabsky Group:
propublica.org/article/nyc-la…

And #6 on the list: Two Trees Management:
propublica.org/article/tenant…
There's more that goes into being a good/bad landlord than just running a clean building. Charging the legal rent is another important factor, though I admit that getting data on that is tough - here was my struggle:
propublica.org/article/delaye…
More of my reporting on #NYCRents laws and landlords who flout them is available here:
propublica.org/series/the-ren…
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Important story by @hgillers about a risky strategy that often backfires

Chicago’s New Idea to Fix Its Pension Deficit: Take On More Debt. Proposed $10 billion bond would be biggest pension obligation bond ever issued by a U.S. city wsj.com/articles/chica…
Reminds me of this 2015 @ProPublica piece I did with Allan Sloan the last time cities and states were seriously looking at borrowing to shore up underfunded pensions. Our headline says it all: When Wall Street Offers Free Money, Watch Out
propublica.org/article/when-w…
Here's a big reason why funding ratios often don't improve after cities & states take on more debt: They borrow big and then go short on contributions to pension plans.
projects.propublica.org/graphics/pensi…
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My latest: I've been on the mortgage trail lately, trying to figure out why Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would buy and securitize loans like these.

Fake tenants, fake income, but real loans? U.S. pursues one of the largest mortgage-fraud probes since 2008
wsj.com/articles/u-s-p…
Loans for apartment buildings where owners allegedly staged units to make them look occupied -- by playing radios inside units or putting doormats outside -- have sparked one of the biggest mortgage fraud probes since the 2008 financial crisis.

wsj.com/articles/u-s-p…
Lax and fraudulent lending on single-family homes before 2008 played a role in inflating and popping the housing bubble a decade ago. As demand for rental housing grows, will lax standards spread to the multifamily housing market?
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“This generation was left on their own like no other generation before.”

A must-read on America's looming retirement crisis from @hgillers @annetergesen @lesliescism

A Generation of Americans Is Entering Old Age the Least Prepared in Decades
wsj.com/articles/a-gen…
And two related stories on this:

Growth in retiring baby boomers is straining U.S. entitlement programs: The ratio of retiree-aged adults to those of working age is rising, as @janetadamy and @poverberg reported yesterday.

wsj.com/articles/retir…
The solution is either:
a) Americans can have more babies, or
b) Boosting the working ranks with more immigration

But American women are having children at the lowest rate on record:
wsj.com/articles/u-s-b…

That adds another dimension to debate in Washington over immigration
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I mean, if Chuckles here wants to claim the Republicans now are the same as 1960, then surely he supports the policies in that year's Platform, like more unemployment insurance, increased pensions, raising the min wage, "equal pay for equal work regardless of sex"...
That platform also takes a section to endorse civil service reform and tighter conflict-of-interest laws, which Trump's Boy Charlie surely embraces in his veneration of all things 1960. I could go on, but someone would have to help Charlie with the big words.
Anyway, the platform is fairly liberal by Republican standards, though the usual caveats apply: rhetoric vs reality, etc. And they made a hard right turn in '64. It's actually pretty interesting to compare those 2 platforms. Here's 1960s, tho: presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/repu…
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There are more of these thread.

Suspected Iranian Influence Operation Leverages Network of Inauthentic
News Sites & Social Media Targeting Audiences in U.S., UK, Latin
America, Middle East
fireeye.com/blog/threat-re…
we got 9 urls from FireEye's report.
and I had flagged another 13 back in march.

Mostly due to these reddit users:
/u/Mike_Rubin
/u/AllenDono
/u/finalin
/u/KevanKing
/u/Pazaj
/u/erickiskandar
Most of these sites share OR shared a common host at some point in time.
AS24940 hetzner[.]com
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Here's the documents, I don't remember them being there when the article was published but I don't know if I scrolled all the way down:

thehill.com/hilltv/rising/…
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Inspired by @sallykuchar , I'm gonna keep a thread of books that I read in 2018, w very brief comments on each one
First gonna tweet all the books I've read so far, then will add to it as I read others
1. William Galston, Liberal Purposes: 5/5.

Thesis: Liberalism does not have a completely vacuous theory of the good life. Maximum possible tolerance is not complete tolerance. Rebuts other popular theories of liberalism e.g. Rawls amazon.com/Liberal-Purpos…
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Here’s Politico reporting on House Republicans plotting to discredit the Mueller investigation and the FBI. politico.com/story/2017/12/…

Here’s Politico, the next day, participating in that plan. politico.com/story/2017/12/…
This Politico story is still bugging me, so indulge me a moment. /1
In this news environment—and on the Russia beat in particular—we are all scrambling to break news and to advance the story wherever it leads.

And a scoop’s a scoop, right?

No. /2
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