Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Am consistently impressed with the prevalence of lawn cutting robots in Europe vs the US Despite average US wages maybe 30-40% higher (though Finnish wages compressed on lower end which contributes to capital intensity) 171
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Back to my favorite hand pulled noodle spot in Helsinki 030
Reposted by Arpit GuptaCalifornia YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Vox's Marina Bolotnikova argues rent control's design determines its harm: strict versions (SF) shrink housing supply, while looser laws with vacancy decontrol and new-construction exemptions—like California's 2019 cap—show no measurable supply loss. www.vox.com/the-highligh...vox.comRenting in America can suck. Tenants deserve better solutions than rent control.What rent control really means for housing in America. 193
Reposted by Arpit GuptaNBER @nber.org · 15/08/2026Property taxes function as embedded leverage, with higher property taxes redistributing housing away from the elderly to the young, from Joshua Coven, Sebastian Golder, Arpit Gupta, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye www.nber.org/papers/w35587 0146
Reposted by Arpit GuptaJoel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The study in this paper is not nearly strong enough to support the claim and it's driving me nuts. Measured at the congressional district level the paper says it shifted the vote to Harris by 1.5 percent but it doesn't hold at the county level! Not particularly robust. 1224
Reposted by Arpit GuptaWilson D’Souza @wdzepper.bsky.social · 13/08/2026www.city-journal.org/article/new-... Written by the lone member of the Rent Guidelines Board who voted against it. I agree on the merits of his argument Would love @arpitrage.bsky.social to have this discussion with the @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Legitimate debate that should be hadcity-journal.orgThe High Cost of New York’s Rent FreezeThe Rent Guidelines Board’s vote provides relief to some tenants while leaving the city’s deeper housing problems unresolved. 122
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Whatever happened to those disposable Greek coffee cups in NYC? 340
Reposted by Arpit GuptaAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This is incredible. "Foreign travel now makes up 1.4% of the US consumer spending budget. By contrast, imported Chinese goods make up about 3% of US domestic expenditures. Seems like American travel in Europe got turbocharged with Instagram" - @arpitrage.bsky.social www.wsj.com/economy/the-... 1143
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This is week 7 of AI and Finance: AI in the Workforce • Is AI a "Normal" Technology? • How does production need to change to incorporate AI? • What does history say about the nature of disrupted professions and leisure time? arpitrage.substack.com/p/7-ai-a-nor...arpitrage.substack.com7. AI: A Normal Technology?AI in the Workplace 141
Reposted by Arpit GuptaMax Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Absolute banger on AI, jobs and firms from @arpitrage.bsky.social arpitrage.substack.com/p/7-ai-a-nor...arpitrage.substack.com7. AI: A Normal Technology?AI in the Workplace 052
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Time to launch a distillation attack on the discipline of urban planning 160
Reposted by Arpit GuptaJoshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 04/08/2026Want to see in real time what's been happening to public school enrollment in your school district? Through @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social, we've just released a school enrollment tracker for Massachusetts, allowing you to explore the data yourself. wheelockpolicycenter.org/high-quality...wheelockpolicycenter.orgMassachusetts School Enrollment DashboardThis interactive dashboard examines the gap between the predicted and actual enrollment in Massachusetts public, private, charter, and home schools. 12510
Reposted by Arpit GuptaJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 02/08/2026via @arpitrage.bsky.social, a pied-a-terre tax for unused faculty offices 2556
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Yeah, The Odyssey, the classic Greek tale about how people should defy Gods and that never goes badly 0111
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 08/07/2026An unexpectedly pleasant feature of Varese is high tree cover for Southern Europe An expectedly pleasant feature is lawn cutting robots and underground car parks 020
Reposted by Arpit Gupta🚲 @bicycle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026excellent piece from @arpitrage.bsky.socialcityjournal.substack.comThe High Cost of New York’s Rent FreezeThe Rent Guidelines Board’s vote provides relief to some tenants while leaving the city’s deeper housing problems unresolved. 031
Reposted by Arpit GuptaTracy Hadden Loh @lohplaces.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Another great read on this topic with some good ideas from @arpitrage.bsky.social for @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social www.vitalcitynyc.org/mamdani-rent...vitalcitynyc.orgAfter the Mamdani Rent FreezeAn agenda to fix New York City’s stabilized housing 061
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The RGB recently voted for a two year rent freeze on NYC rent stabilized housing I was the lone dissenting vote I've written two pieces here; which highlight the challenges of a rent freeze and where to go next www.vitalcitynyc.org/mamdani-rent... cityjournal.substack.com/p/the-high-c...vitalcitynyc.orgAfter the Mamdani Rent FreezeAn agenda to fix New York City’s stabilized housing 1305
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 25/06/2026NYC restaurants now offer prebiotics to reduce the hangover the next day 2130
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 19/06/2026In the long run, there is no reason the US shouldn’t be the world’s dominant soccer country 8140
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Davelle in NYC has the best chicken katsu curry I’ve ever tried 120
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The Real Deal writes on a proposal of mine to condition rental increases on building conditions in the rent stabilized stock therealdeal.com/new-york/202...therealdeal.comRGB member proposes “rent freeze for slumlords”RGB member Arpit Gupta says landlords who don’t maintain buildings should see frozen rents. 160
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 17/06/2026They should move the goalposts closer so they can score more goals 160
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Optimal World Cup play is to rack up the goal difference, but only Germany is ruthless enough to do so 341
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Week six of my class on AI and Finance: Asset Management and Trading • Scaling laws for alpha • Distinguishing between spurious and genuine factors • Who captures value when markets get more efficient arpitrage.substack.com/p/6-signal-a... 051
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Proposal: either the United Kingdom fields one football team, or else each underlying nation declares independence; this is ridiculous 2182
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 13/06/2026A romantic comedy between an AI lab employee who marries his boss to keep access to Fable, but then she visits his compute rich family and realizes he’s not rate limited after all 060
Reposted by Arpit GuptaVital City @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026@arpitrage.bsky.social: "The opportunity for New York lies in becoming the primary destination for firms seeking to build the plumbing and deployment for AI across these different domains." www.vitalcitynyc.org/ai-economic-...vitalcitynyc.orgHow New York City Can Come Out a Winner in the AI AgeBet on the last mile of new technologies. 011
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Everyone is worried that AI will do to white collar jobs what automation did to blue collar work in the 70s. Fair concern! But the city has two big moats: regulation and proprietary data. My case for NYC as the capital of Applied AI in Vital City: www.vitalcitynyc.org/ai-economic-...vitalcitynyc.orgHow New York City Can Come Out a Winner in the AI AgeBet on the last mile of new technologies. 010
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 09/06/2026We used to know how to make facades in this country 2312
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 02/06/2026How hard can it be to get into the École Normale Supérieure? Every French person I know did it 2140
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The part of history I feel most unclear on is 800-900 AD 340
Reposted by Arpit GuptaStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 29/05/2026E24-24, my proposal to raise the IBC’s single-stair apartment building height limit from three stories to four, has passed the final membership vote, and will now officially make it into the 2027 IBC 🎉 2737965
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Did not realize that Watergate was an urban courtyard design 070
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Now Penn Station is on fire? In Japan the government would fall 3160
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 28/05/2026In Japan, a high-ranking JR official would have lost their job over the delays I'm dealing with in this Amtrak 2130
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The harmless torturer thought experiment from Derek Parfit in the wild! 060
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I have ~6 active group chats with three people in them; some with many more people, but a missing group chat gap involving 4-6 people 060
Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Note this is the same Muller Pasta company which was owned by NYU Law for several decades, triggering a change in non profit law to make that no longer possible. NYU Law got a good exit, and used the money to negotiate a good deal with the University and buy real estate 181
Reposted by Arpit GuptaDavid R. Agrawal @davidragrawal.bsky.social · 30/04/2026🧵Is telework threatening state and local tax systems? My new paper: “State and Local Tax Policy in a Time of Telework” (with Xinyu Chen) @natltax.bsky.social Idea: telework decouples the residence and workplace posing challenges for who taxes remote workers. doi.org/10.1086/740842 1132