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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes I agree (what I mean by income compression)

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I mean this is on the lawn of a large University campus

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Am 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)

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Back to my favorite hand pulled noodle spot in Helsinki

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Maybe we'll all meet again on LinkedIn

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Vox'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...

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Renting in America can suck. Tenants deserve better solutions than rent control.

What rent control really means for housing in America.

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sounds like the price of thinking like a macroeconomist is too high

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NBER @nber.org · 15/08/2026

Property 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

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Do you have other suggestions?

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I see people posting Guardian articles on X pretty frequently

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Though the primary microblogging platform (and genuinely growing in adult share) is sadly just LinkedIn, about a third of adults having used it

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Pew's survey estimates it at 8% of US adult respondents use Threads

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

That’s true, but those are clicks by users with accounts

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yeah but I don't think it counts as a daily user unless you do actually click on it

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

But people should do what they want; I'm not going to seriously try to shift anyone

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I switched over from X to here completely at some point, then it got annoying for me here and so I went back. Now I'm mostly there and happy; but occasionally check in

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Is there? People crosspost to Instagram, but I thought they only count users from people who actually click through to Threads (and have an account there)

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don't know why I even got involved here; you claimed that microblogging services were all dying and being replaced by TikTok. I don't think that's true; Threads and X both seem to be doing well in users. Meanwhile this site is indeed dwindling

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Fair; the survey usage in the US is flat, while it's growing internationally

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I typically stick to my following feed. But even on my "For You" feed I get what I engage with, and don't see any of that there.

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We have survey evidence from Pew, etc. Pretty substantial shares of people still report being on Twitter in some capacity.

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don't know what evidence you have for that. I see zero of that content there. It remains the main hub for discourse and discussion on the internet.

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This must be the civil discourse I've heard so much about!

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Setting aside my experience here has been much more negative than it ever was on X; the traffic has dwindled so much it isn't worth it

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The penalties for outbound links are now gone

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

True, and I'd love to see you all back on X making those points

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Believe what you want, but this platform is dying and X is growing

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Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The 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.

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Wilson D’Souza @wdzepper.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

www.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 had

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The High Cost of New York’s Rent Freeze

The Rent Guidelines Board’s vote provides relief to some tenants while leaving the city’s deeper housing problems unresolved.

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Whatever happened to those disposable Greek coffee cups in NYC?

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This 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-...

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This 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...

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7. AI: A Normal Technology?

AI in the Workplace

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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Absolute banger on AI, jobs and firms from @arpitrage.bsky.social arpitrage.substack.com/p/7-ai-a-nor...

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7. AI: A Normal Technology?

AI in the Workplace

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Time to launch a distillation attack on the discipline of urban planning

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 04/08/2026

Want 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...

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Massachusetts School Enrollment Dashboard

This interactive dashboard examines the gap between the predicted and actual enrollment in Massachusetts public, private, charter, and home schools.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

via @arpitrage.bsky.social, a pied-a-terre tax for unused faculty offices

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I just want allocative efficiency!

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I would simply not offend the Gods and get home in a week

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

On the plus side, what quasi random geographic RDs

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Chinese: the French of Asia Japanese: the British Iranians: the Greeks Koreans: the Germans Vietnamese: the Polish Thai: Spanish Burma: Portugal Pakistan: Turkey

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What are Indians if not the Italians of Asia?

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Yeah, The Odyssey, the classic Greek tale about how people should defy Gods and that never goes badly

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

An unexpectedly pleasant feature of Varese is high tree cover for Southern Europe An expectedly pleasant feature is lawn cutting robots and underground car parks

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Yeah for sure. In our context one issue is whether or not to use provisos (my preferred version: lower rent on poorly maintained buildings for incentives)

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The basic tradeoff is rules vs discretion. I’m a fan of rules in general (I’d rather not have been in a position to make these choices!) so I like the attention there. But there are different rules that can be tried

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Tim Collins for instance has emphasized this point (his formula = building cost/revenue * POIC + NOI/revenue * CPI). If you chain his formula back to 1990 or so you get some "overcharging." Pegging to this level would allow for temporary freeze + future adjustment rises.

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