
Charles Marohn
@clmarohn
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Books: Strong Towns | Confessions of a Recovering Engineer | (Bestseller) Escaping the Housing Trap
Brainerd, MN
Joined September 2008
RT @StrongTowns: As Edward Erfurt, our Chief Technical Advisor, says, “The hard truth is this: growth alone doesn’t guarantee solvency. "….
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A lot of people read "government" here indiscriminately. We can debate economic illiteracy at the federal level, but local government budgets are very much like a household.
The danger of equating a govt budget to a household leads to very damaging policy and laughable headlines from economic illiterates such as this. Britain's running out of cash!! 🤪. @andyverity @labourlewis @ProfSteveKeen @StephanieKelton #MMT
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The idea that development in the SW is slowing down is getting a lot of spin. We've been talking about it for years - it's the natural outcome of our unnatural development pattern.
Post-war development is based on the idea of stasis: build to a finished state. After World War II, California grew robustly in this way, but places like Phoenix and Dallas didn't get started at that pace for a couple of decades.
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RT @Chris_arnade: I've stayed out of the Abundance debate, because there are a lot better informed people to talk about it. Strong Towns….
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This feels like it settles a bet between @TwinsGeek and @AaronGleeman.
If you are delusional enough to think you can make contact against a professional pitcher, think again
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RT @StrongTowns: Turning empty lots into housing that meets the community’s needs—that’s what Muskegon, Michigan is doing with Tax Incremen….
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RT @VladTheInflator: If the Federal Reserve had never purchased mortgage-backed securities (MBS)—especially during and after the 2008 finan….
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Abundance asks us to empower others to fix what we already have the power to change. At @strongtowns, we think you don’t need to wait for permission.
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RT @EpsilonTheory: This is a common knowledge moment - everyone now knows that everyone now knows that the US deficit cannot be controlled….
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RT @StrongTowns: “The only way you get the people living in this neighborhood to agree. is if you have a vision of how that will actually….
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RT @BillSimmons: I don’t care who wins this game. The touch foul calls SGA gets are really awful. They don’t resemble anything else that’s….
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RT @InlandCaGuy: Fellow YIMBROs, no need to fight this thread, because look a) there are YIMBYs that do advocate for sprawl b) it's not a s….
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