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Covid Has Made Orlando Less Affordable Than San Francisco
Justin Fox, Bloomberg
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the price of housing has risen in some relatively cheap places in the U.S. and fallen in some expensive ones. These dynamics were already apparent before covid-19, as superstar cities in the U.S. and abroad began to price themselves out of reach for many of the workers who kept them going. Then came a contagious disease that (1) temporarily shut down most of the things that make superstar cities attractive and (2) led employers to experiment with remote work on an unprecedented scale, making it easier to disconnect superstar-city jobs from superstar-city real estate prices.
Economist: Lockdowns ‘Greatest Peacetime Policy Failure’ in Canada’s History
Canadian economist Douglas Ward Allen recently ran a cost-benefit analysis of lockdowns. The trade-off hardly seems worth it.
Monday, April 26, 2021
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Earlier this month, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease official in the United States, struggled to explain why COVID cases and deaths in Texas were continuing to fall even though the Lone Star State had lifted the last of its restrictions against Fauci’s advice a month earlier. It can be confusing,” Fauci began. “Ofen you have to wait a few weeks before you see the effect . I’m not really quite sure. It could be they’re doing things outdoors.