I have some thoughts on Bob Zimmerman’s thoughts over at Open Market.
Category Archives: Economics
In Praise Of Chaos
Thoughts on creative destruction, from George Will, with a generous nod to Virginia Postrel.
ObamaCare
…approaches its day of reckoning. As do its authors, in November.
Rarely has one law so exemplified the worst of the Leviathan state — grotesque cost, questionable constitutionality and arbitrary bureaucratic coerciveness. Little wonder the president barely mentioned it in his latest State of the Union address. He wants to be reelected. He’d rather talk about other things.
And no celebration of its two-year anniversary. I guess it wasn’t as much of a BFD as Joe Biden said it was. Or perhaps it is, but not in the way he thought.
[Update a few minutes later]
Happy second birthday, ObamaCare! “Now let’s destroy it, root and branch.”
[Update a while later]
Five things the Democrats (politically) got wrong on ObamaCare. Did they get anything right?
[Mid-morning update]
Heh: “Democrats so misjudged everything about Obamacare, you would think they never read the bill or something.”
[Late morning update]
WSJ: Liberty and ObamaCare.
America’s Real Fiscal Gap
Over $200 trillion dollars? Sadly, give our current policies, I can believe it.
Test-Tube Hamburger
This could be a useful breakthough in terms of a cheaper protein source. Via Natural News, who is naturally whining about it.
[Update a few minutes later]
This seems sort of related: Red meat makes you happier. The science is settled!
Huge News For Startups
The JOBS Act won a cloture vote in the Senate. There was a lot of fear that the Senate would muck it up with a lot of inhibiting requirements, but now it will go on for a vote.
Oil Production On Federal Lands
Salazar lied.
Shocking, I know.
The Coming Helium Shortage
Because we’re wasting it on party balloons. It really is a critical strategic resource; it’s nuts to be selling off the reserve. It’s vital for a lot of rocketry.
But here’s my question, that a quick search doesn’t answer. With the increase in natural gas production from fracking, are they capturing the helium along with it? Does this solve the problem? Or is the artificially low prices making it not worthwhile to do so? The other question is, are there places where it’s easy to mine in the solar system? For instance, how practical would it be to skim Saturn’s atmosphere for it?
Sixty-Billion Dollars Of Apple’s Money
Free-Market Health Care
It is possible.