Think about any problem you might have in your own household or at work. Usually that problem comes with two kinds of measures, quantitative and qualitative. For example, if you’re running low on milk you know what “low” means when you pick up the carton and if feels lighter than usual. That’s a qualitative measure. […]
So if housing is a right, not a commodity to be bought and sold the question still remains: don’t we need more. I’m not being snide here at all. What I am asking is, if we have 1000 people who need homes and 100 homes then whether housing is a commodity or a right, don’t […]
I’m pointing to the New York Times again today. Paul Krugman, who is generally seen to be the leading economist of the left, wrote a column making a not so liberal point — or at least a point that I make all the time over and against the dominant lefty paradigm in Seattle — overregulation […]