Elsewhere on Wednesday . . . 

— China launches a pilot program to assist private-sector property funding. Plus Michael Pettis’s ideas. (Yicai International, Twitter)

— Are laws and particular pursuits actually accountable for low building productiveness within the US? Brian Potter of Development Physics seems on the knowledge behind a latest Ezra Klein column. (Substack)

— Are you able to imagine the BLS used to trace inflation for 5 various kinds of steak? (Alex Williams on Twitter)

— Robotic blacksmiths (Bloomberg $)

— What stage of a housing scarcity is it when the “subsequent scorching market” doesn’t bodily exist? (New York Instances, metered paywall)

— UK civil servants warned in opposition to utilizing AI chatbots for coverage or correspondence. In the meantime within the US, one college’s officers have already needed to apologise for utilizing ChatGPT to put in writing a word to college students in regards to the Michigan State mass taking pictures. (iNews UK, ABC Information)

— Jeff Koons “balloon canine” sculpture smashed in Miami (ARTnews)

— TFW no faux gf (Vice)

— Fentanyl: nonetheless killing numerous Individuals (NYT, metered paywall)

— Science-fiction journal Clarkesworld briefly stops accepting submissions after it’s overrun with machine-generated content material (Twitter)