Newmark's Door

Maybe not President, but certainly at least a Cabinet post.

Looks cool, but there isn't one for my neighborhood.

Viva competitive free markets!

In many ways, the Chipotle burrito is very similar to the iPhone. Founder Steve Ells invented a way to maintain the basic speed and experience of the standard fast-food experience and make the quality of the food a little better.*The better food costs a bit more money, but consumers turn out to be happy to pay a premium for a superior product. A similar insight is behind privately held Five Guys, a burger-oriented fast-food concept that’s also grown rapidly over the past several years. At the other end of the health spectrum there’s Chop’t, the assembly-line salad chain that’s taken New York and D.C. by storm but hasn’t yet gone national. All three chains are, in their different ways, raising the bar for food quality in a quick-service setting.

I expect we'll see more and more reports like this:

4. Coding Chops > Comp Sci degree

Exactly! Heh.

Horace Greeley, updated: Go South, young person.

Sad but probably true.

I don't know if the author is right, but it doesn't sound good.

"Yeah, you don’t want people to question the whole redistribution scheme, so you displace alternative approaches then call anyone who uses it a hypocrite if they complain. It’s political genius, until you run out of other people’s money."

Makes the good point that there all different kinds of teachers with all different kinds of duties and all different kinds of effects, so they should be paid differently.

But misses making the point that probably the best way to do this is by decentralization and school choice.