Yes, people are trying to scare us into a depression, and much of this is irrational.
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Nevada is reopening, ready or not.
Category Archives: Economics
Triumph Of The Woke Oligargarchs
ObamaCare
Is there anything it didn’t wreck?
A lot of us warned about this at the time.
The Food-Supply Chain
This is not good news. The head of Tyson says that it is breaking.
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More from Darleen Click.
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A plan to prevent the coming food shortage. As usual, it involves deregulation.
The Food Supply
Red tape continues to need cutting. Food labeling remains stupid, particularly in terms of calorie counting. And Schumer continues to be a derriere fedora.
Space Startups And The Plague
Rick Tumlinson has a pretty good op-ed.
Space Resources
Glenn told me a few days ago that he was working on a piece for the Journal. It’s up now (but paywalled). He has an excerpt.
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Chris Johnson, of the Secure World Foundation, has a long disquisition explaining the background and purpose of the Executive Order.
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Another take from Professor Michelle Hanlon. And a longer-than-necessary one from Dimitra Stefoudi.
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States
…should not receive bankruptcy protection.
Cocaine Mitch should offer states a bailout of their pensions, only on condition that they no longer be states, and become territories, pending better behavior in the future. And the sensible parts of them, like downstate Illinois, should be able to petition for readmission immediately.
Nutrition Labels
Why there’s a frozen-fry shortage.
Nutrition labels, to the degree that they provide calorie information, are worse than useless, because calorie counting is stupid. FDA should not only suspend them, but eliminate them.
Half-Whitmer
The Michigan legislature has called a special session to strip her of her emergency powers, which she has been abusing.