Jim Manzi has what looks to be an interesting new book out. David Brooks describes the premises.
Category Archives: Business
The Job Market
Why it may not be back to normal until the end of the decade.
Innovation
A motorcycle road trip to test a rocket-engine pump.
Asteroid Mining
Is it legal? I have some thoughts over at PJMedia.
The Occupy Movement
Why it’s a potential disaster for the Democrats.
I hope so. They deserve it.
Best Buy
The boycott. No, it is not “bigotry” or “intolerance” to be opposed to a terrorist-supporting organization. Or if it is, there are some things that shouldn’t be tolerated.
Just one more example of why they’re gradually going out of business.
The Water Rush
Over at Popular Mechanics, I write about the competition for extraterrestrial water, and the relative merits of the moon versus asteroids.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s a related piece at the HuffPo. But this always drives me nuts:
The world’s fossil fuels are in limited reserves and are also in quick depletion.
We have enough fossil fuels to last many decades, and in the case of coal, for centuries.
A Quarter Century Of Weak Growth
That’s what our debt burden may cost us. Thanks, Washington.
The New Nomenklatura
Barack Obama and his rich socialist buddies.
When Commodities Analysts Should Stick To Commodities
In which I take some folks at Barclays to school on asteroid mining.