New York will raise taxes on the coronavirus to encourage it to flee the state.
Category Archives: Economics
A Fit Of Sanity
San Francisco (!) has reversed its plastic-bag ban, and instead (finally) banned reusable bags.
Hopefully this won’t be temporary; it was always stupid.
[Update a few minutes later]
Katherine was prescient (as was I).
Innovation, Privacy, And Nature
How the pandemic will change our views of them.
Building Moon Bases
…with astronaut pee.
Spain And Italy
…have been abandoned by the EU.
Between this and Brexit, I don’t think the EU will survive.
The Gig Economy
The virus has not suspended the laws of economics.
Lessons From NYC
Build the equipment needed, not what you think you can invent.
Bodice Rippers For Andy
This is sort of amazing. And it’s not April Fool’s stuff; these women are probably fools year around.
[Update a few minutes later]
Cuomo is no hero, but moron De Blasio prepared for the wrong emergency (which was in fact in no way an emergency).
Conservatism
It’s time to get our fiscal house in order.
And no, reforming conservatism should not include embracing the New Deal.
On that last link, I hadn’t been aware that Conrad Black is an admirer of FDR. That’s disappointing.
[April 1st update]
Conrad Black responds.
[Bumped]
Free-Market Health Care
How would it respond to the virus?
It’s been many decades since there’s been anything resembling a free market in this country’s health care, other than things like Lasik.
[Update a few minutes later]
Speaking of (lack of) free markets, restaurants in Los Angeles are being shut down for selling groceries without a license.
Government seems determined to put business out of business.