The great unanswered question. With the election results in France, northern Europe would pull out, if they had any sense.
Category Archives: Business
If You’re Not Scared
..you haven’t read the numbers. Millions of members of the work force have simply disappeared in Obama’s depression, and they won’t be coming back until he’s gone.
Risk-Based Student Loans
An idea whose time should come. But it will be fought tooth and nail by the academic-industrial complex, to protect their phony baloney jobs.
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If you’re “investing” in college, think like an investor. Unfortunately, one of the many things that kids aren’t learning in public schools is how to do that.
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What comes after the bubble pops?
The Value Of Trial And Error
Jim Manzi has what looks to be an interesting new book
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.
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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.