Ken Acks
@costbenefitkmaacks.bsky.social
Supporting Rational Evaluation over Preconception by Facilitating Comprehensive Quantification of Costs and Benefits www.costbenefitgroup.com envirovaluation.org. Adjunct Prof NYU Schack Institute for Real Estate
a large part of being a conservative is pretending they are “pretending” to be a prick to prove a point when they really just want to be a prick because they are pricks at heart and thats who they are
Forbes@forbes.com · 19h agoWBNA eligibility rules don't use any external measures to say what defines a "woman."
DR. OZ: "When you steal money from the federal government, you ought to go jail and go to jail for a long time" SEN. ADAM SCHIFF: "Does this apply to the Grifter-in-Chief?"
Assessing the costs and benefits of non-pharmaceutical pandemic measures using the economic values of social contacts | The European Journal of Health Economics | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Assessing the costs and benefits of non-pharmaceutical pandemic measures using the economic values of social contacts - The European Journal of Health Economics
We develop and calibrate a two-layer macroeconomic model of a pandemic to examine the macroeconomic costs and benefits of COVID-19 public health interventions. By integrating policies into a stratifie...
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Super interesting! "Cultural Capital and the Productivity of Ideas: Evidence from Historical Texts" by Radoslaw (Radek) Stefanski. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wwwecon/rep...
Combining policymaking tools for green transition: eco-efficiency benchmarking and club convergence | Empirical Economics | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Combining policymaking tools for green transition: eco-efficiency benchmarking and club convergence - Empirical Economics
The present study combines eco-efficiency performance measurement for the green energy transition with club convergence. This is achieved by applying hybrid window data envelopment analysis (hybrid WD...
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Can public–private partnership bring benefits in shrinking public services? An empirical analysis of the lock-in effect versus cost-reducing effect | Empirical Economics | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Can public–private partnership bring benefits in shrinking public services? An empirical analysis of the lock-in effect versus cost-reducing effect - Empirical Economics
This study aimed to investigate whether the cost reduction effect outweighs the cost-increasing effect in public–private partnership (PPP) management contracts, considering the time-course lock-in eff...
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DiNapoli Report Shows How NYC's Business Costs Compare to Other Major Metropolitan Areas | Office of the New York State Comptroller www.osc.ny.gov/press/releas...
DiNapoli Report Shows How NYC's Business Costs Compare to Other Major Metropolitan Areas
New York City remains one of the nation’s most expensive places to start or operate a business, but several major business expenses have grown at a slower rate than in competing metropolitan areas ove...
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Why does it cost so much to run a business in NYC? Report notes several factors including taxes, labor - silive.com www.silive.com/news/2026/08...
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Harvesting Historical Data with LLMs www.philadelphiafed.org/the-economy/...
Harvesting Historical Data with LLMs
Economic Insights — Researchers at the Philadelphia Fed are using large language models to do what was once too expensive and time-consuming to do at scale: collect and analyze data from historical re...
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This is an example of why we need to spend a lot more time combating the ideologies driving the New Right. Pete Hegseth is an acolyte of Doug Wilson, a Christian nationalist who doesn’t believe in women’s rights. Is it any wonder why Hegseth is blocking women nominees? Christian nationalism.
Women’s Share of Top Military Promotions Falls as Hegseth Blocks Nominees
The percentage of high-ranking officer nominations going to women is currently at its lowest level in over two decades.
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*Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety* - Marginal REVOLUTION marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
*Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety* - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the new book by Peter Gray, and it is very much a whole philosophy of child-rearing and also antidote to the current panic over social media. Excerpt: In preparation for this chapter, I spent ...
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China-Free Batteries Made From Salt Are Finally Here - WSJ www.wsj.com/business/ene...
China-Free Batteries Made From Salt Are Finally Here
Sodium-ion batteries have almost none of the problems that lithium-ion ones do, and could be cheap enough to make fossil-fuel dependence a thing of the past.
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Most People Prefer AI Writing, but That’s Because It’s Trained on Us - CNET www.cnet.com/tech/service...
Most People Prefer AI Writing, but That’s Because It’s Trained on Us - CNET
A new study finds that people rated AI-generated stories higher than human-generated stories, especially when told that a human wrote the story.
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The SEC said it is dropping an insider-trading lawsuit against a former healthcare executive who was convicted in a related criminal case and then pardoned by President Trump
SEC Drops Insider-Trading Suit Against Executive Trump Pardoned
The US Securities and Exchange Commission said it is dropping an insider-trading lawsuit against a former healthcare executive who was convicted in a related criminal case and then pardoned by President Donald Trump.
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News | Walkable, mixed-use areas post higher rents, stronger occupancy, study finds www.costar.com/article/1220...
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Even Republicans are now saying the GOP has gone too far | Opinion www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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Just to remind everyone, in addition to his promotion of global warming, Trump has also put thousands of National Guard troops on clown patrol in DC and elsewhere, when they could be helping to fight the Trump wildfires.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · yesterdayAs firefighters raced to extinguish wildfires burning across eastern Washington and Oregon, meteorologists warned that the battle to control flames could intensify on Friday and Saturday, when breezy winds and low humidity were expected to reimpose critical fire weather.
I note in here that DOGE's fabricated claim of savings will give whichever house Dems win in November cause to subpoena Musk and ... DOGE's chief propagandist, Stephen Miller's breeding partner. 🍿
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d agoReceipts! DOGE Fails an Audit emptywheel.net/2026/08/07/r...
Amidst skyrocketing electricity prices, the administration is actively blocking the cheapest forms of energy. In a normal world this would be political suicide. But Democrats just nominated a Muslim guy. So, who's to say which party is most controversial? subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: German company takes Trump administration’s offshore wind buyout
RWE announced a $1.2 billion agreement with the federal government to abandon offshore wind leases off the coast of New York, California and Louisiana.
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They can’t get mad at the virus that disrupted their lives. It doesn’t care if you yell at it. They can’t get mad at Trump, the president who screwed it up. That’d cause painful cognitive dissonance. They want to scapegoat a person—you did this to me!—and throw an anti-science fit. So Fauci is it.
Ukrainian bandersnatch@buzogryz.bsky.social · 2d agoBro, what did Fauci even do? Why do conservatives hate him so much??? 😭
Should we bribe the NIMBYs? - by Milan Singh - The Argument www.theargumentmag.com/p/should-we-...
Should we bribe the NIMBYs?
Why some YIMBYs tolerate a tax on housing
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CDC Head To Focus On Abortion Surveillance Efforts | HuffPost Latest News www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...
Trump’s New CDC Head Said ‘Abortion Surveillance’ Will Be A Critical Focus
There is no evidence that states are purposefully misclassifying abortion data to the CDC.
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Residential Clean Technologies Still Make Sense — Even Without Tax Credits. - RMI rmi.org/resources/re...
Residential Clean Technologies Still Make Sense — Even Without Tax Credits.
RMI’s latest analysis shows clean technologies can still deliver meaningful emissions reductions and household cost savings, even without tax credits.
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The Geography of Human Capital: Why Rich Regions Stay Rich - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmX1...
The Geography of Human Capital: Why Rich Regions Stay Rich
YouTube video by Becker Friedman Institute University of Chicago
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“There is no historical precedent for virtually any of this, and that is what makes it so dangerous, even if it’s a process run by cranks and incompetent toadies: The president of the United States is not supposed to be allowed to use the most powerful intelligence services on the…
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3d agoNEW: part 4 in @zeteo.com’s START THE STEAL series this week, from @justinglawe.bsky.social and me zeteo.com/p/how-trump-...
NEW: part 4 in @zeteo.com’s START THE STEAL series this week, from @justinglawe.bsky.social and me zeteo.com/p/how-trump-...
How Trump Is Turning the U.S. Intel Community Into an Election-Rigging Machine
In part 4 of Zeteo’s ‘Start the Steal’ series, we detail how Trump is weaponizing America’s top spies and intelligence agencies to strangle American democracy.
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