It’s been over a week since our last entry in the Traffic Soyboys series. I promised to deboonk the “suburbs are Ponzi schemes,” nonsense, and I’ve been putting it off. The problem is that the claim is supported by such little evidence that, like many Traffic Troon claims, it takes far more effort to deboonk than it did for them to make it in the first place. Imagine someone saying “we should just use rockets to travel, because they’re really fast and, once you’re in orbit, they don’t use any fuel.” It takes a lot longer than one sentence to … Continue reading PSA: Deboonking the Traffic Soyboys Part 24 – Urbanite Midwits Find One Weird Trick to Not Understanding Basic Economics