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Strong Towns

How One Bill is Trying to Keep Texas Affordable — Strong Towns — 
Bottom-Up Shorts: How To Build a City’s Economic Core — Strong Towns — 
How To Understand and Fix Government Budgeting, With Mark Moses — Strong Towns — 
Cities Are Not Nations: The Hard Budget Reality of Brainerd, Minnesota — Strong Towns — 
Minnesota Rethinks Parking Mandates—Will Your City Keep Up? — Strong Towns — 
Iowa May Legalize Backyard Cottages—Your City Can Do It First — Strong Towns — 
North Carolina is Ditching 1960s Era Zoning — Strong Towns — 
Two Views, One Budget: Why Houston’s Financial Story Isn’t as Simple as It Looks — Strong Towns — 
Small-Scale Housing is Making a Big Impact in Seattle — Strong Towns — 
Cincinnati Ditches the Status Quo with its Zoning Reform — Strong Towns — 
The Bottom-Up Revolution Is...Using Art To Advocate for Street Safety — Strong Towns — 

The Claremont Institute

Britain’s Immigration Debacle — The Claremont Institute — 
Taking on Iran — The Claremont Institute — 
The Border Crisis Is Over — The Claremont Institute — 
Solving the Immigration Contradiction — The Claremont Institute — 

Notes on the Crisis

Nathan Tankus

The Stock Market is a Conventional Wisdom Processor: Why Trump’s Tariffs Crashed the Stock Market While the Trump Musk Payments Crisis Hasn’t (Yet) — Nathan Tankus — Notes on the Crisis — 
Trump’s “Liberation Day” and the Ongoing Stock Market Crash: The Key Lessons to Take into the Second Week of the Market Bloodbath. — Nathan Tankus — Notes on the Crisis — 

Julia Doubleday

RFK Jr.'s "MAHA" movement doesn't want to eliminate chronic illness. They want to eliminate the chronically ill.  — Julia Doubleday — 

Betsy Phillips

The Book Ecosystem in Tennessee Is Under Serious Threat — Betsy Phillips — 

Chris Hedges

Palestinians Speak Out Against Princeton Welcoming Israeli War Criminal on Campus — Chris Hedges — 

Heidi Li Feldman

The clash is nigh — Heidi Li Feldman — 

Patricia Roberts-Miller

Progressives are children of the Enlightenment — Patricia Roberts-Miller — 

Not Just Bikes

These Ugly Big Box Stores are Literally Bankrupting Cities — Not Just Bikes — 

City Observatory

The Week Observed, April 4, 2025 — City Observatory — 
A non-denial denial — City Observatory — 

The Australia Institute

Election entrée: Not all party candidates make it to election day — The Australia Institute — 
Leaders’ debates can be useful, but no debate is better than a scrappy one — The Australia Institute — 
Election entrée: Electorates are bigger than ever — The Australia Institute — 
Uni Canberra is spending big on things not needed, while cutting staff to save money — The Australia Institute — 
Bully’s gonna bully — The Australia Institute — 
Now that there are no safe seats – the ‘bellwether seat’ is no more. — The Australia Institute — 
Coalition’s proposed gas levy could raise billions of dollars — The Australia Institute — 
Are Australians eating diseased salmon? Sickening new revelations from Tasmania — The Australia Institute — 
Australia’s paper tigers – the state of news competition — The Australia Institute — 
RBA should call urgent meeting to cut rates now in the wake of Trump tariff chaos — The Australia Institute — 
Newspapers are dying. News diversity died years ago. — The Australia Institute — 
Trump’s tariffs won’t wreck Australia’s economy. But America’s could be cooked. — The Australia Institute — 
The continuing irrelevance of minimum wages to future inflation — The Australia Institute — 
Full preferential voting means you can’t waste your vote — The Australia Institute — 

The Equality Trust

The Challenge of Ethnic Wealth inequalities — The Equality Trust — 
This Year, We Could Choose an Alternative to Austerity — The Equality Trust — 

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)

Boundedly Rational Expectations and the Optimality of Flexible Average Inflation Targeting — Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) — 

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Liberty Street Economics

Monetary Policy Spillovers in the Global Economy — Federal Reserve Bank of New York — Liberty Street Economics — 
Monetary Policy Spillovers and the Role of the Dollar — Federal Reserve Bank of New York — Liberty Street Economics — 
How Household Saving Affects Monetary Policy Spillovers — Federal Reserve Bank of New York — Liberty Street Economics — 

The Commons Social Change Library

How to Counter Misinformation: Framework and Templates — The Commons Social Change Library — 
Countering Misinformation about Refugees and Migrants — The Commons Social Change Library — 

Applied MMT

04/06/2025 Market Update — Applied MMT — 

Climate Town

New York Declares War On Traffic (A Congestion Pricing Story) — Climate Town — 

The Australia Institute

Australia does not need an increase in spending on the military — The Australia Institute —