I’m outsourcing a critique of the first homeowners subsidy of $20,000 introduced today in New Zealand to a Seattle blog that it seems to be rather excellent on urban economics and the demand and supply for housing and land
Supply and Demand or Miracles: Which side are you on?
Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan at the Scopes Trial, 1925. Wikipedia CommonsDarrow: But do you believe He made them–that He made such a fish and that it was big enough to swallow Jonah?
Bryan: Yes, sir. Let me add: One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
Darrow: Just as hard?
Bryan: It is hard to believe for you, but easy for me. A miracle is a thing performed beyond what man can perform. When you get within the realm of miracles; and it is just as easy to believe the miracle of Jonah as any other miracle in the Bible.
Darrow: Perfectly easy to believe that Jonah swallowed the whale?
–From Clarence Darrow’s cross examination of William Jennings Bryan at the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, 1925
The debate about “affordable housing” often ends up sounding like…
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