Some thoughts on the inherent contradictions within the system.
Category Archives: Business
We Need Spending Cuts
Not tax hikes. But it’s just the majority of economists. What the hell do they know?
[Update a while later]
Based on comments, I guess I should have added…”The science is settled!”
The New Global Recession
Nine signs that it has arrived.
At least we’ll get lower gas prices out of it.
Kim Kardashian
Really, you could toss a dart at a phonebook and do better than what we have now.
Policy And Productivity
Some useful thoughts from Jim Manzi.
Good Riddance
It’s the end of an era for the University of Wisconsin’s TA union. As Ann notes, it was at the center of the thuggery in Madison earlier this year.
Want To See A Bubble?
Here’s a bubble.
And it’s about to pop, I think.
Why Hasn’t The Economy Recovered?
Roger Kimball explains.
I should add one more item to my list of things that the next Congress and administration should do — repeal the Community Reinvestment Act.
Ares I
Is it the answer to the heavy-lift problem?
I agree with Jeff Foust. Simply put, no.
High-Speed Trains!
You know who else liked them?
The Nordic landscape cries out to be traversed by rails over which express trains can speed. It is a characteristic of all Nordic vehicles to increase their speed. Ever-increasing velocity is a built-in characteristic of the rails themselves, the rails by which, in the Nordic experience of the world, the whole world is penetrated. Rails that are already in existence and those that must constantly be constructed for ever newer, ever faster vehicles on which men who experience the world Nordically may strive toward ever new goals. The Nordic soul experiences its world as a structure made up of countless thoroughfares — those already at hand and those still to be created — on land, on water, in the air, and in the stratosphere. It races like a fever through all segments of the Nordic community, a fever of speed which, infectiously, reaches out far beyond the world of the north and attacks souls who are not Nordic and for whom, at bottom, such action is contrary to their style and senseless.
Take a guess. Of course, he was militantly opposed to smoking and a vegetarian, too.
[Via Althouse]