The US is failing.
[Monday-morning update]
DARPA is getting interested.
Category Archives: Economics
Fixing NASA
Jim Meigs has a long essay at the Manhattan Institute that quotes Yours Truly several times.
[Friday-morning update]
Bob Zimmerman writes that we don’t need no stinkin’ government program to get to the Moon.
Not sure I agree. The race to the poles was all about prestige, and America didn’t need it, but the race to the Moon is about resources, and we don’t want China to be making claims. But I agree that the best policy would be that which encourages private actors, and Isaacman is the ideal NASA administrator to do that.
The Proposed “Science Budget Cuts” At NASA
Bob Zimmerman says that there are things deserving of cutting.
I certainly agree about Mars Sample Return, and said that on X this morning. I think we need a dramatic change in how these funds are allocated and prioritized, and the current decadal needs to be completely redone.
But I also don’t pay much attention to what OMB says at this point in the process.
I would add that it’s inappropriate for OMB to propose a NASA budget ahead of the confirmation of a NASA administrator who has been named for months. I wouldn’t put up with it if I were president. I personally consider OMB’s NASA budget proposal DOA, and I hope that Trump does as…
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) April 14, 2025
Thoughts On The Current Market Chaos
MY OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP
— Shay Boloor (@StockSavvyShay) April 5, 2025
The frustrating part is that I was on board for a reset. Truly. I’ve said it publicly. I’ve written about it in this very feed. I understood the need for a detox. For decades, the U.S. economy played the part of the rich guy at the table –… pic.twitter.com/0s4XppWGnF
Markets and businesspeople hate uncertainty, and this is uncertainty cubed.
In short, the Trump administration officials are so gung-ho on the tariffs because they are not a negotiation and also are a negotiation, because they are permanent and also temporary, because they will be a lasting source of new revenue for the government and also a declining…
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) April 7, 2025
Grifterism
It’s the economic engine of the Democrats.
DOGE
If everyone saw this, it would be much more politically popular.
My interview with the @elonmusk and the @DOGE team tonight on #SpecialReport pic.twitter.com/KKpxEPtu1Z
— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) March 27, 2025
Gen Z
…is the most conservative generation because they were victims of the left’s failures.
“Fifteen Days To Stop The Spread”
Time flies. It’s been five years since one of the (many) big lies about the pandemic.
We had to fumigate the house for termites, and decided to take the cats up to Cambria for a couple days (their first, and so far, only road trip, which they probably think was some kind of weird dream), so we wouldn’t have to board them. We were supposed to meet some friends from Berkeley, but the lock down had just begun in the Bay Area, and they decided not to go. I wouldn’t say that the town was a ghost town, but it was decidedly weird. When we got back to LA, things just started rapidly deteriorating with all the lunacy from there.
[Update a few minutes later]
Jennifer Sey: “The five-year anniversary of the lockdowns is here, and I’m angry.”
So am I. So should we all be. And Deborah Birx (among many others) has never been held accountable for her (her word) “subterfuge.“
[Thursday-morning update]
Lileks remembers.
[Bumped]
Climate Policies
The climate has changed for them. It’s tragic that it didn’t happen sooner. We’ve missed out on trillions in economic growth as a result of this stupidity.
Deworming DC
Some recommendations from Instapundit.