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Arpit Gupta
Personal blog · arpitrage.substack.comeconomicsdata
Arpit Gupta writes Arpitrage, a personal blog at arpitrage.substack.com about economics and data. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Contra Strong Towns”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The post 'Contra Strong Towns' is linked as a counterargument to Strong Towns-style urbanist advocacy, in a thread on Colorado's highway policy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Finance, Real Estate, and Urban Economics.
Most-linked posts?
- Contra Strong Towns2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-18
- Prediction Markets Beat Polls2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-16
What Hacker News says?
Here is one. Njb is another one of these strong towns esque orgs that parrots the usual points to people who get their text based content through a talking head speaking it to them. https://arpitrage.substack.com/p/contra-strong-towns
Comment linking /p/contra-strong-towns
on “In Colorado, an ambitious new highway policy is not building them”Submitted Prediction Markets Beat Polls as a story · 162 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wall Street Investors Enter Single Family Rentals as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote Work's Impact on Productivity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contra Strong Towns as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's Going on with China's Stagnation? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Prediction Markets Beat Polls as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rent Freeze, and a Return to the 1970s as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unlock a Housing Boom Through Depreciation Bonuses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why FinTech Failed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Correcting the "Europe Is Stagnant" Narrative as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Measuring Housing Regulations at Scale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Bronze Trade Origins of Cities as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Office to Residential Conversions: Redeploying Real Estate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Goods-Services Rotation Theory of Inflation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Newer Geography of Jobs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Limits of Macroprudential Policy, and Impacts of Healthcare Costs on Small Firms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Supply, Demand, and Stagflation as a story · 1 points
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