I've been staring at this figure for a while. Even NYC is 70% car trips. Really want to know the European cities above 70. Given small circles I'm guessing Ghent and The Hague.

Glad to have the baksfiet share back in service so Honey can get her hip shot and go to the beach!

Sunday morning at 10:30 and the The Hague city services was out to empty to a full recycling vault. This is great infrastructure, but it also requires diligent service provision.

But if he really had to have new construction, can I nominated the New Executive Office Building for demolition?

If Trump really wanted a ballroom, I think it could have been carved out of the old executive office building:

This is the equivalent of having a house where the front elevation is mostly just a garage.

This graphic was on a van near my house in Den Haag and I have so many questions. It's an AI rendering of an American trucker driving casually past farms while being watched over by a Jesus angle and honestly wonder if it's repurposed parody. The way Evil Burt was shown with Bin Laden after 9/11.

Canals in the Netherlands are principally for drainage, but they're quite an amenity.

Pouring one out for world trade.

4 Dutch workers removed 120' of these pavers, trenched to 3', added a fat conduit of some kind (no house connections) backfilled, mechanically tamped and reset pavers in 4 hours!

Found this quote today at the Amsterdam Resistance museum. It felt a bit timely as my former institution dumps any attempt to anticipate climate impact or broaden the econ tent.

Deeply honored to become a Hoyt Academic Fellow. What a great conference!

When IP is weak and horse meat un-stigmatized.

I was struck by how truck sales diverged from car sales in 2016, did Trump unleash men's id? But no, I looked back and it's just cheap gas once again

Tyler Cowen has speculated that Europe's appeal basically comes down to pretty old buildings. I'm in Rotterdam today (where little survived the war) but a human scale street grid, bike lanes and public transit support a density that is amenity rich and visually stimulating.

One of the US's strengths was the separation and tension between economic and political power. For many countries a business oligarchy sustains the government with money and media and the government protects their business from regulation but also competion which kills productivity growth.