Politics
Policy as it actually lands, not as it is announced.
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3 subjectsBritain Argues Over Who The Real Rentiers Are
Whether the asset-rich and the retired are drawing unearned rent, or saving under a tax and money policy that made the rents — and what, if anything, may be taken back.
The AfD Wins Saxony-Anhalt But Falls Three Seats Short
Whether the firewall produced this result or is the last thing holding it back, and what a state election obliges the rest of Germany to do.
Iceland Votes Against Reopening EU Accession Talks
Whether the No closes the European question or only shelves it, and whose defeat the result was.
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Revisions are supposed to be mean-zero. A run of twelve downward revisions in fifteen months implies a model assumption that stopped holding some time ago.
The Permitting Bottleneck Nobody Legislated
Median time from application to construction start has roughly doubled in a decade, with no single statute responsible. The delay is emergent, which makes it hard to legislate away.
