That’s what California is. And the socialist nannies in Sacramento seem determined to take it even lower.
Category Archives: Economics
The Eurozone
The great unanswered question. With the election results in France, northern Europe would pull out, if they had any sense.
Orbital Mechanics, Selenology, Economics And Logistics
Jim Hillhouse doesn’t understand any of them:
The plan germinating from deep within NASA, and that sees some tentative support within Congress, is to fly one, or both, of the Morpheus and Mighty Eagle landers on the first flight of the Space Launch System in 2017. The reason for this is to begin to answer the question of whether, and in what form, there is water on the Moon.
Ummmm…no. We are long past the point of having to “begin” to answer that question.
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If You’re Not Scared
..you haven’t read the numbers. Millions of members of the work force have simply disappeared in Obama’s depression, and they won’t be coming back until he’s gone.
Risk-Based Student Loans
An idea whose time should come. But it will be fought tooth and nail by the academic-industrial complex, to protect their phony baloney jobs.
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If you’re “investing” in college, think like an investor. Unfortunately, one of the many things that kids aren’t learning in public schools is how to do that.
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What comes after the bubble pops?
The Value Of Trial And Error
Jim Manzi has what looks to be an interesting new book
The Job Market
Why it may not be back to normal until the end of the decade.
The Occupy Movement
Why it’s a potential disaster for the Democrats.
I hope so. They deserve it.
The Water Rush
Over at Popular Mechanics, I write about the competition for extraterrestrial water, and the relative merits of the moon versus asteroids.
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Here’s a related piece at the HuffPo. But this always drives me nuts:
The world’s fossil fuels are in limited reserves and are also in quick depletion.
We have enough fossil fuels to last many decades, and in the case of coal, for centuries.
A Quarter Century Of Weak Growth
That’s what our debt burden may cost us. Thanks, Washington.