Gongol.com Archives: October 2017
October 27, 2017
First criminal charges from Mueller probe about to arrive
CNN reports that a grand jury has approved charges resulting from the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, and someone is likely to be taken into custody as soon as Monday.
Almost 2,900 records released on JFK assassination
The National Archives says this is pretty much it for the files that had been kept secret up until now
What if tight zoning regulations in some cities benefits others?
An interesting argument that tough zoning ordinances in some major cities actually has a very positive effect for other places that don't have similar rules -- which dampens the clustering effect that would normally be expected to benefit some of those large cities via a rich-get-richer feedback loop.
A hypothesis on American manufacturing
Why don't we have as heavily industrial an economy as, say, Germany? One argument is that the American economy is so dynamic that skilled people get drawn into post-industrial jobs at a much higher rate here than there, creating a high hurdle for industrial jobs to compete against.
Massachusetts girl has best score in golf tournament, but doesn't get the trophy
Because she was playing on a boys' team. Seems like a peculiar way to structure things.
