Category Archives: Economics

Upgrading Phones

A record number of people are waiting to do it.

Apple, Samsung et al are coming up with new models faster than the demand for them. I’m happy with the Moto G6 I bought for a couple hundred bucks a year or two ago. I don’t see any features in the newer ones that I can’t live without. Of course, I see my cell phone as an evil necessity, not something integrated into my existence. I often forget to take it with me when I go out of the house, and only use it in the house when I need to text.

The Democrat Primary

…is an arms race in crazy.

Yup. The only one who has a chance of beating Trump is Biden, and he probably can’t get the nomination.

[Update a while later]

[Update late morning]

With twenty-one entrants, here’s the state of the 2020 Democrat primary.