Articles 2024
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Christmas Stockings Are an Industrial Triumph
The Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2021
Special stockings for holding gifts were unimaginable before modern technology and economics made socks cheap and abundant.
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How Dodd-Frank Locks Out the Least Affluent Homebuyers
Bloomberg Opinion, November 09, 2021
Rules intended to protect borrowers and rein in fees have drained the profit from small-dollar mortgage lending. Who suffers? People who are straining to start building wealth.
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America’s Supply Chain Collides With California’s Nimbyism
Bloomberg Opinion, October 25, 2021
A regulation at the Port of Long Beach has clogged national deliveries. It is emblematic of the state’s impasse on housing and other development.
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Starbucks Is 50 and Emboldening Its Rivals More Than Ever
Bloomberg Opinion, October 12, 2021
Evolving from a stark Milanese design to a cozy Main Street cafe, it has energized a thriving counter-movement of independent coffeehouses.
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California’s Smart Plan to Let Homeowners Be Homebuilders
, October 03, 2021
The way to blunt Nimby resistance to badly needed housing construction is to give single-family owners a path to profit from new development. -
Are Career and Family Incompatible?
Bloomberg Opinion, September 19, 2021
A Q&A with economic historian Claudia Goldin on women’s long struggle to balance the demands of work and children — and why government policies aren’t the answer.
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Would You Trade a Parking Spot for an Extra Bedroom?
Bloomberg Opinion, August 09, 2021
A bill in the California Legislature would allow developers more freedom to decide what works best for a given project.
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How Textiles Became the Fabric of Summer
Zócalo Public Square, August 05, 2021
And What Rally Towels, Picnic Blankets, and Pride Flags Tell Us About Being Human
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The Big Question: Can U.S. Schools Recover From the Pandemic?
Bloomberg Opinion, July 04, 2021
A Q&A with outgoing Los Angeles schools superintendent Austin Beutner on how technology, data, federal funding — and Hollywood — are helping to revitalize the country’s second-largest public school district.
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Indigo Dyeing May Hold Key to Future of Fashion
Bloomberg Opinion, June 22, 2021
Technological innovations, not a nostalgic return to “natural” products, can reduce the environmental impact of textiles and clothing.