Thoughts from Jeffrey Carter.
This resistance to building them down here is probably going to help industrialize space.
Category Archives: Economics
What Rubber Hits The Road
When the state determines it.
Tire dealers in Nevada and Arizona are clicking their champagne glasses. I’ll bet that there will also be a lot of Amazon deliveries.
California doesn't do these things for "efficiency", and the cost increase isn't an unfortunate side effect…it's the whole point. CA leaders deliberately make driving financially painful with the goal of forcing you onto public transport. They brag about it in legislation. https://t.co/PUjhkJwt2N
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) August 19, 2026
Bombs, Burnt Beef, And The $20 Burrito
To think that absent obvious voter fraud, Los Angeles could have had the opportunity to vote for this guy as mayor.
The Library Bum
…is the absolute scum of the Earth.
A long, but worthwhile read.
I spent a lot of my youth in the public library, to the degree that I was once suspended from high school because I was caught there by the assistant principal instead of being in class.
The DSA’s Achilles Heel
How to destroy them, and humiliate El-Sayed.
And then, sadly, there’s this:
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have been on an impressive winning streak. From New York City to Los Angeles, it’s the biggest story in politics since you-know-who descended from a golden escalator in 2015. But every now and then, the DSA hits a roadblock.
And when they do, have you noticed that it’s almost NEVER because of economic pushback?
As a lover of free markets and capitalism, I wish it wasn’t so. I wish defending free markets was a winning issue for the GOP — and a galvanizing message for the electorate.
I wish the American people were economically literate.
But they’re not. (And they won’t be ‘til we invest in an educational campaign.) Unfortunately, calling a socialist a socialist doesn’t move the needle anymore.
Yes, as I’ve often said, our disastrous Marxist educational system is the greatest threat to the Republic.
Throttling The Bureaucrats
— Michelle L.D. Hanlon (@hanlonesq) August 12, 2026
This may be the most visionary and sensible NASA administrator ever.
[Update a while later]
Jared’s post was presumably in response to this:
Reading this is incredibly radicalizing. I want to do the exact opposite after reading this. It also oozes with AI-written prose. Fitting, as it’s anti-human and is intended to stop settlement of Mars. https://t.co/tHunJ5UX6s
— Robotbeat🗽 ➐ (@Robotbeat) August 12, 2026
“I Just Saw The Future In A Phone Call”
Stephen Green reports on Elon’s earnings call.
Increasing Cadence Ahead
SPACEX: According to local reports, the final stages of a deal are in place for SpaceX to build the new spaceport on Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, and Governor Jeff Landry is expected to make an announcement this month.
— S.E. Robinson, Jr. (@SERobinsonJr) August 2, 2026
SpaceX would gain control of the land… pic.twitter.com/kaKKJHhDZ3
[Tuesday-morning update]
We now have a rough timetable on the schedule.
[Bumped]
Starship’s Heat Shield
…remains a problem, even with the recent successful flight.
This is the kind of technology that (as it did as the NACA, before it became NASA) that NASA should have been prioritizing for decades. But it was more important to build a giant expendable rocket without a design reference mission.
The Great MAGA Reversal
How helping Ukraine became America First.
They have a lot to teach us, particularly to prepare for China.