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Cutlasss14 karma

Back in the 80s when I was first introduced to the concept of economics I read Michael Porter's The Competitive Advantage of Nations. One of my takeaways from that was in a set of charts he used, particularly one labeled "Net National Investment (Gross fixed capital investment - Consumption of fixed capital as a percentage of GDP) with the footnote that in the US in the 1980s it is near zero to negative if housing stocks is not included. I also have a book by Benjamin M Friedman who makes the same point about the decline of business investment.

So my question, what has this looked like over the past decade, and what kind of policies do you think would be best to raise the national net new business investment rate?

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Where do you think the net neutrality debate should, in a somewhat more in the direction of perfect world, end up?

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And commercial investment will follow?

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This house was built around 1960. Does that suggest anything?

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Can you predict anything about radon risk by the type of terrain the house is sitting on? According to the EPA map you linked, I'm in a Zone 3 county. But I do see some houses in the area with radon mitigation systems installed. Not many, but a few.