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Category Archives: Economics
Nancy Pelosi
I hope she remains this delusional right through the first Tuesday of November.
“I think the Republicans are wasting their time using that as their electoral issue, and they will find that out,” she said.
Pressed by a reporter whether Democrats should shy away from the issue on the campaign trail, Pelosi didn’t hesitate.
“No, absolutely not,” she said.
Pelosi has long argued that the healthcare law will become increasingly popular as more people recognize the benefits.
She’ll probably argue it to her grave, hopefully at least her political one.
The Best Anti-Poverty Agenda
Cheap Desalination
…through graphene oxide?
This would be a game changer.
Making Russia Pay For Ukraine
…with seven energy policies.
They’d have the additional benefit of sparking economic growth.
The Pause
Causes and implications of it.
The biggest implication is that the models are worse than useless as a guide to policy on climate. And places like California are taking a wrecking ball to their economy for nothing.
National Security Launchers
A live blog of the Senate hearing, with Elon Musk and Michael Gass. ULA is running scared, and Shelby is running interference for them, spouting economic lunacy.
Partitioning California
It’s not as crazy as The Economist thinks:
No doubt water, pension liabilities and Democrats (who would let this happen over their dead bodies) pose seemingly insurmountable obstacles to partition. But this is a reform movement we hope gains steam over time. The competing interests and priorities of California’s unmanageable, schismatic population are bad for democracy and bad for Californians.
It’s a mess.
Safety In Spaceflight
Over an Space News, Donald Robertson has an op-ed that could be a summary of my book, though he doesn’t mention it.
The War on Poverty
Why we lost it, and why we’re continuing to lose it, despite many trillions of dollars. The only way to win the war on poverty is to end the war on the market and economy.