Well-deserved awards. Sounds like a good time.
Category Archives: Business
Chief Spreading Bull
Senator Brown has targeted Mrs. Warren’s phony claims of “Indian” heritage; her $350,000-plus salary at HLS; her work for an insurance company in matters involving (yikes) asbestos; and other trivia. What he hasn’t said and probably won’t say: she is a nag. A scold. An ideologue. An advocate of a nanny state beyond a Swedish socialist’s wildest imagination. A bureaucratic Bruegel who paints an America of victims — pathetic figures in a landscape of unremitting hostility. Also, Professor Warren is an economic idiot.
That’s why the Left worships her.
[Mid-morning update]
Fauxcahontas’s legal problems return:
Professor Jacobson:
I couldn’t figure out how to leave this as a comment at your site, but I wanted to let you know ASAP that I concede that your discovery this morning answers all of my arguments and is a gamechanger. Your diligence in investigating this matter is commendable.
Regards,
Mark Thompson
Commendable indeed.
Justice And Irony
The slow-speed rail in California is being killed by green tactics.
Catalonia
Will it become independent?
There’s A Strong Case For Command/Control Regulation
If you’re intellectually lazy.
Sadly, most people are. Particularly the ones who fancy themselves to be intellectuals.
Higher-Education Bubble Update
These people don’t need school — they need finishing school.
Obama’s Next Solyndra
Here comes Smith Electric:
The company has very limited customer base of only eight companies, and “the loss of any of these customers could materially harm our business.”
The SEC filing contained other damaging revelations. The firm said that its truck’s lithium-ion battery cells “have been observed to catch fire or vent smoke and flames,” and their warranty reserves may be insufficient to cover future warranty claims.
The company’s top management has limited or no experience in the automobile or truck business. Hansel previously led Evo Medical Solutions, which sold portable oxygen concentrators.
But other than that, it was a great bet, Secretary Chu.
A Reusable Falcon
Will it be bad for SpaceX?
The problem with his analysis is that (as Clark Lindsey notes in comments) he assumes no elasticity of demand with the lower prices. I think he’s wrong.
Critical Legal Studies
…and Barack Obama’s hatred of the U.S. Constitution.
This shouldn’t be news, but most people remain unaware of it. I hope the Romney campaign decides to change that.
Electric Cars
…are a waste of money, according to the CBO. Well, at least government subsidized ones. But who would expect a physicist to know anything about business or economics?