<story><title>Finally, no bid on mortgage-backed securities</title><url>https://notoriousrob.com/2022/06/finally-no-bid-on-mbs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>favflam</author><text>1 short cut to cutting demand is to copy everyone else around the world.  Let cities get rid of single family zoning.  Let go of pride and commute by bicycle.  The energy consumption will drop by a magnitude.  People&amp;#x27;s health will improve.  We as members of society will see each other face to face more often, closing the polarization.  Make the police walk and cycle around town, not sit aloof in their metal tanks.&lt;p&gt;The US would get explosive growth by not forcing such enormously inefficient car-centric cities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isitmadeofglass</author><text>What are you expecting this to do exactly? Inflation in norther Europe is rampant too, and the housing market is just as bad. the fact that many people bike to work doesn’t change that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Finally, no bid on mortgage-backed securities</title><url>https://notoriousrob.com/2022/06/finally-no-bid-on-mbs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>favflam</author><text>1 short cut to cutting demand is to copy everyone else around the world.  Let cities get rid of single family zoning.  Let go of pride and commute by bicycle.  The energy consumption will drop by a magnitude.  People&amp;#x27;s health will improve.  We as members of society will see each other face to face more often, closing the polarization.  Make the police walk and cycle around town, not sit aloof in their metal tanks.&lt;p&gt;The US would get explosive growth by not forcing such enormously inefficient car-centric cities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blfr</author><text>Commuting by bike isn&amp;#x27;t going to happen. It&amp;#x27;s not practical for most business and personal purposes. Electric scooters have a better shot than bikes. (Still not going to happen.)&lt;p&gt;The only alternative to cars in cities is working public transit. And working means available, frequent, safe, and clean. You can&amp;#x27;t have homeless people sleeping on buses, you can&amp;#x27;t turn it off at 1 am. Regular people need to be able to rely on it.</text></comment>