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Method: name the feeling, test the story with facts, state it cleanly, do one useful thing, stay awake.

This page is the evidence ledger for the project. Instead of turning every case study and post into a long citation dump, we keep narrative pages readable and maintain receipts here as grouped evidence.

Each receipt group makes one testable claim, links to core sources, and points back to the related case studies or blog entries. Use the type matrix for quick orientation, then filter by type, case study, tag, or keyword.

Receipt Types

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Primary documents 7 case studies | 3 blog posts | 18 groups

Original records, filings, policies, and official documents.

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Case studies: Boeing (Post-Merger Era) , Citizens United v. FEC (2010) , Costco , Montgomery County Housing Production Fund , Nucor Steel , Saturn (GM Division) , Tokyo Housing Throughput Model

Blog: Court orders aren't optional: a St. Paul release-order noncompliance case note , Election guardrails: intelligence agencies and the temptation to touch the machinery , Small Guardrails, Big Consequences

Official data 6 case studies | 2 blog posts | 15 groups

Public datasets and statistical releases from agencies and institutions.

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Case studies: Boeing (Post-Merger Era) , Citizens United v. FEC (2010) , Costco , Montgomery County Housing Production Fund , Nucor Steel , Tokyo Housing Throughput Model

Blog: E4E Isn't a New Ideology. It's a Practical Mash-Up (With Receipts) , The Canyon Isn't Just Information. It's Economic.

Independent analysis 7 case studies | 14 blog posts | 16 groups

Research, audits, and serious reporting used to test competing claims.

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Case studies: Boeing (Post-Merger Era) , Citizens United v. FEC (2010) , Costco , Montgomery County Housing Production Fund , Nucor Steel , Saturn (GM Division) , Tokyo Housing Throughput Model

Blog: Big Economic Families vs E4E (and Why I'm Not Joining Anyone's Tribe) , E4E Isn't a New Ideology. It's a Practical Mash-Up (With Receipts) , Guardrails: Dignity, due process, and the danger of normalization , When the DOJ's "client" becomes the President , Accountability vs obedience: why civil service guardrails matter , If rights require compliance to work, rights aren't real , Court orders aren't optional: a St. Paul release-order noncompliance case note , Election guardrails: intelligence agencies and the temptation to touch the machinery , Economic pressure with guardrails: targeted strikes without breaking democracy , The Canyon Isn't Just Information. It's Economic. , Economic blackout as a pause button: rule of law vs. intimidation , Information Bubbles and Shared Reality , Two nights in Minnesota: protest, escalation, and a civic ask , Small Guardrails, Big Consequences

Direct observation 0 case studies | 4 blog posts | 0 groups

Field notes, lived examples, and local reporting tied to concrete events.

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Blog: Big Economic Families vs E4E (and Why I'm Not Joining Anyone's Tribe) , E4E Isn't a New Ideology. It's a Practical Mash-Up (With Receipts) , I Didn't Know the Term Mutual Aid Until I Needed It , Information Bubbles and Shared Reality

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Independent analysis

Administrative Burden and Practical Policy Filters

Administrative burden evidence supports E4E's insistence on simplicity: implementation friction is often outcome-defining, especially for households already under squeeze.

Linked content: E4E Isn't a New Ideology. It's a Practical Mash-Up (With Receipts) , Big Economic Families vs E4E (and Why I'm Not Joining Anyone's Tribe)

Tags: e4e, administrative-burden, simplicity, policy-design

Primary documents

Affordability Targeting and Permanent Restrictions

HPF ties financing to permanent affordability requirements, but baseline affordability floors do not by themselves guarantee deep affordability for extremely low-income households.

Linked content: Montgomery County Housing Production Fund

Tags: montgomery-county, ami, permanent-affordability, deed-restrictions

Independent analysis

Competing Causal Mechanisms and Identification Limits

Zoning preemption is a plausible driver of Tokyo outcomes, but available evidence does not isolate its contribution from bubble deflation, demographics, or incremental urban development patterns.

Linked content: Tokyo Housing Throughput Model

Tags: tokyo, causal-inference, bubble-deflation, emergent-urbanism

Independent analysis

E4E Research Families Backbone

E4E's core loop is a synthesis across multiple research families; no single study proves the full loop, but each link has supporting evidence with explicit uncertainty labels.

Linked content: E4E Isn't a New Ideology. It's a Practical Mash-Up (With Receipts) , Big Economic Families vs E4E (and Why I'm Not Joining Anyone's Tribe)

Tags: e4e, research-families, method, evidence-labeling

Independent analysis

Implementation Friction and Community Trust Signals

Community reporting and laboring implementation details suggest trust and execution gaps that should be treated as real constraints, not just communications issues.

Linked content: Montgomery County Housing Production Fund

Tags: montgomery-county, implementation, community-trust, governance

Independent analysis

Stress, Polarization, and Scapegoating Linkage

Evidence supports a stress-to-politics pathway where economic shocks and insecurity increase polarization and make scapegoating narratives easier to activate, though full-loop causality remains a synthesis claim.

Linked content: E4E Isn't a New Ideology. It's a Practical Mash-Up (With Receipts) , Big Economic Families vs E4E (and Why I'm Not Joining Anyone's Tribe)

Tags: e4e, polarization, scapegoating, insecurity

Independent analysis

US Transferability: Structural Principle vs Local Constraints

The transferable lesson is reducing local veto points, but policy effects in US states remain early-stage and path-dependent, with uncertain magnitude relative to Tokyo's national institutional setting.

Linked content: Tokyo Housing Throughput Model

Tags: tokyo, us-analog, state-reform, transferability