Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Turns out kids these days, like kids in those days and the days before that too, do sex things, to themselves and to each other. Even in small, wholesome towns where teenagers are still cursed with hormones and interests and curiosities, and wet panties and hard-ons. That teenagers have varying degrees of interest in S-E-X is…
START “MORE FROM NEXT ECONOMY” Custom END “MORE FROM NEXT ECONOMY” Custom SYRACUSE—This office looks like a pretty typical co-working space, what with the guy with a ponytail coding in one corner, the pile of bikes clustered in another, and the minimalist desks spread across a light-filled room. Troy Evans opened this space, CoWorks, in…
The entertainment industry always loves a good comeback story, and music’s latest resurgence is no exception. Despite an explosion in digital and streaming music — including Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora and Tidal — consumers are spending more money on vinyl records, and more vinyl buyers are millennials. In 2014, more than 13 million…
The Four Horsemen of Gentrification. Then I saw when the Landlord broke one of the rent-controlled seals. I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Gentrify.” I looked, and behold, a green horse, and he who sat on it had a mason jar; and a fedora was his…
Do we make both a conceptual and analytical mistake when we refer to student loans as a form of “financial aid”? Should that term be something to be resisted? Demos’ Tamara Draut brought up this point in a conversation recently, and I think it needs to be explored further, because it frames how we speak about student…
Back in 1999, a quarter of all 25-year-olds lived with their parents. By 2013 this number has doubled, and currently half of young adults live in their parents home. While the troubling implications for the economy from this startling increase are self-evident, and have been extensively discussed both here and elsewhere (and are among the…
A café that specializes in novelty breakfast cereals has been targeted in protests against the gentrification of London’s East End. Paint was thrown at the windows of Brick Lane’s Cereal Killer Café, and “SCUM” was written across the window. A nearby real estate agent was also attacked. Customers were locked inside to protect them from the demonstrators. Several…
Oh here is a good personal finance story for 20-something citizens: “If You Have Savings In Your 20s, You’re Doing Something Wrong.” What we have here is a surprisingly lengthy “take” by one “Lauren Martin,” aged 20-something, which includes published sentences such as “I don’t know about you, but I like to enjoy my life….
I don’t have any savings, but I also don’t have any wants. I don’t know about you, but I like to enjoy my life. I like to go out to eat, buy clothes I don’t “need” and spend money with friends on memorable nights out. This goes back to a piece of advice a very…
Colleges give prospective students very little information about how much money they can expect to earn in the job market. In part that’s because colleges may not want people to know, and in part it’s because such information is difficult and expensive to gather. Colleges are good at tracking down rich alumni to hit up…