Category Archives: Business
A Wrap Up of 2022
From Dave Barry.
Climate Alarmism
…is behind Christmas energy shortages.
And energy shortages in general.
A Good Start
Utah has eliminated the degree requirement for 98% of its civil-service jobs. Now let’s see other states follow suit, and fully pop that higher-ed bubble.
The Ideological Capture Of Our Scientific Institutions
At the end of this road lies Lysenkoism. It’s what happens when the government is the primary funder of scientific research.
Just What We Needed
If you die in the game, you die in real life.
This seems quite Darwinian.
Vega C
Arianespace has another failure.
I predicted years ago that Ariane 6 would be obsolete before it flew. I suspect that its executives are starting to figure that out now, and are going to have to stop denigrating, and instead start imitating, SpaceX.
Silicon-Valley Fraudsters
Are they today’s robber barons?
As Glenn notes, unlike the Carnegies, Rockefellers and J. P. Morgans, these robber barons haven’t given us much except toxic social media. The exception being, of course, Elon Musk.
Try, Try Again
China’s first attempt to put a methane-fueled rocket into orbit has failed.
The Fifth Estate
The media continues to minimize what was happening at Twitter, and the role of the government, while demonizing Elon Musk.