The Immigration Overton Window Shift

Stove Top 54: No appetite for immigration, housing shortage, declining confidence in higher ed

The Essentials

• 55% of Americans want to see immigration reduced. Damn.

  

• The US is now short 4.5M homes. This is why housing prices are unaffordable, not immigrants.

• Meta won’t bring their future AI models to the EU because of regulatory disputes.

• Confidence in higher education is waning.

  

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The Extras

• The best time to build nuclear reactors was 35 years ago. The second best time is now.

• The UK is installing a new EV charger every 25 minutes.

• Germany is not rising to the Ukrainian challenge.

• The US<>China venture-industrial complex is no more.

• China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week.

• TSMC isn’t interested in a joint venture factory in the US.

• To the surprise of absolutely nobody, wealthier people are happier.

• You don’t need that many employees to do great work.

• A million people, 10% of its population, left Cuba between 2022 and 2023.

• Argentina’s economy is quietly growing again.

• Bring back public toilets.

• Childlessness is now a main driver for the US’s dismal birthrate.