It is possible.
Category Archives: Economics
What’s Wrong With American Health Care
In one easy graph.
It’s very vicious circle (as often happens when the government gets involved).
The Small Business Administration
Like the Ex-Im Bank, this is another place the federal government could profitably be pared.
The Party Of Corporatism
The GOP has to make a decision whether it’s going to continue to continue to accept the Democrats’ cronyism, or be the party of free markets. And yes, defunding the Ex-Im bank would be a nice first step. If people really want to buy Boeing airplanes, they’ll find the money.
Fossil Fuels
What if they aren’t really “fossil” fuels? I’m skeptical on this, but maintain an open mind. If Gold is right, it’s a huge game changer, not just technologically, but politically. Of course, it will just send the carbon loons further around the bend.
High-Speed Rail
Proponents in California, getting desperate, are having to revise their appealing lies.
It’s The Sociology, Stupid
So, apparently, I’m not skeptical about the need to wreck our economy to save the planet because many of the scientists promoting it have been shown to be frauds and hacks. No, it’s because I’m a threatened, “conservative white male.”
What would I do without professors of sociology to explain such things to me? I particularly love the “98% of scientists” line. Because, you know, science is all about majority opinion (and no, even if it was, I don’t buy the number).
A Trade-Deficit Solution
There seems like a big market opportunity here. Put people to work by fishing, and sell the proceeds to China. You could do it canned, frozen and fresh. I know that when I was a kid growing up in Michigan we’d never eat carp, and considered them junk fish, though the blacks would eat them (and dogfish, too — I remember dogfish runs by the dam near our cottage on the Muskegon River, where people would just pull them out with nets and cover the banks with them). Not sure what the difference is between Asian carp and the native variety, or if it’s tastier. But the Asians definitely do know their carp (which is what koi and goldfish are).
Complex Societies
Why they need simple laws.
[Update a few minutes later]
Are regulations strangling the economy? Samuelson thinks so.
Why California Is Going Broke
Reason number 154,976: one third of all Americans on welfare live there.
[Update a while later]
California sounds a (slight) retreat in its ongoing war against arithmetic.