I suspect that the phrase is an oxymoron, sort of like “French victory.” Anyway, if anyone would know how economically crazy the French are, it would be Veronique.
[Wednesday afternoon update]
I’m shutting down comments on this post, because it seems to have become a spam magnet.
…of the welfare state. When something can’t continue, eventually, it doesn’t. They’re running out of other peoples’ money.
Thoughts on the new policy from Alex Gimarc, over at the American Thinker.
Looks like it’s been around since January, but Alan Wasser draws my attention to Colin Doughan’s Space Business Blog, where he has an interview with Alan on space property rights.
…that Congress caused the financial crisis. And they seem determined to continue (completely leaving Fannie and Freddie out of the new legislation).
[Update a while later]
Some thoughts on popping bubbles and the demonization of short sellers by clueless politicians.
[Update mid afternoon]
Don’t know what happened to the second link above — it was working when I put it up.
Meanwhile, Matt Welch points out that we are out of money. Or more precisely, we are out of other peoples’ money, which is, as Lady Thatcher famously pointed out the point at which socialism quits working.
The latest issue is out, with links galore.
You know, the essay I wrote at The New Atlantis last summer has been up for many months now, and I have never seen anyone critique it, with the exception of an idiotic attempt by Mark Whittington. I’ve received nothing but praise for the most part (which is why I wish more people would read it). The editor has also told me that he received no letters to the editor objecting to it. Is anyone aware of a serious, informed critical review? If there are none, I suspect that one of the reasons why is that I circulated drafts of it among a lot of smart people in the process of writing it.
The reason I ask is because I’m in the process of working up a book proposal, and I want to hone it, if there are any serious and useful issues with it, because a lot of the book will be based on it. And of course, people will be reviewing drafts of the book as well.
[Saturday morning update]
I’m not looking for suggestions for improvement (I have no plans to rewrite it or republish anywhere else). I’m looking for things that people think I actually got wrong.
It’s apparently, at least indirectly, killed climate legislation for this session.
…and the case for repeal grows. I really think that we could have figured this out without having to pass it, if there hadn’t been such a rush to pass it. And if we had been allowed to read it.
I have to say, though, that it’s nice to see that the only place that Scott Horowitz can get his self-serving conspiratorial science fiction published is at the Mars Society. What he writes is bad enough, but the colors at that web site make my eyes bleed. I may respond later, but Clark makes a good start. Keith Cowing is unimpressed as well.