“We have no solution.”
I’d go further, and say it’s not even clear that we have a problem that requires one.
Category Archives: Economics
Rape On Campus
It belongs in the courts. It does seem like a quaint idea:
The lefty stuff always leads to the same place. But you’re crazy to go to these schools if you’re a man. And women don’t want to go to schools that men avoid. So I predict either an eventual equilibrium, or a collapse.
His predictions have been playing out pretty well, so far.
Demographic Death Spiral
No, not of people this time, of businesses:
More businesses are failing now than are being created, a first for the American economy since the Carter era, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution. That has become even more true during the Obama “recovery” than during the Great Recession.
Also:
Another nugget in that Brookings paper: “older and larger businesses are doing better relative to younger and smaller ones”
The younger and smaller ones don’t have the financial resources to buy (or, actually) rent the grifters and grafters in DC.
[Update a couple minutes later]
This is probably related; how bad is the job market for 2014 grads? This bad:
Today’s crop of new B.A.s are staring at roughly 8.5 percent unemployment, 16.8 percent underemployment. Close to half of those who land work won’t immediately find a job that requires their degree, and for those stuck in that situation, there are fewer “good” jobs to go around. Welcome to adulthood, class of 2014.
A lot of them wasted borrowed money on their degrees, loans that are currently not dischargeable in bankruptcy. So they have that going for them, too.
Who Owns The Moon?
Yet another space property rights piece, at The New Republic. My take is here and here.
Nice to see that the latter is what you get if you’re feeling lucky on Google with “space property rights.”
Vampire Rejuvenation
More thoughts on young blood, from Derek Lowe.
The Fruits Of ObamaCare
It used to be that Canadians headed south of the border to get quality care. Now Californians are doing it.
Mitt Romney
…reminds us of why he was such a terrible candidate.
A businessman should know better.
The Russian Lunar Base
Any government program that has a plan for fifteen years out shouldn’t be taken very seriously. If they really wait that long, they’ll likely be greeted by the concierge at a Bigelow facility. You don’t build a “colony” with a humungous expensive expendable launch system.
The Minimum Wage
No, Joe, it didn’t help end the Depression. It extended it.
High-Speed Rail
From Beijing to CONUS? Under the Bering Strait?
I don’t think so.