If you want to see the future of the nation, look no further than Massachusetts. It’s already getting hard to find a primary-care physician and it’s only going to get worse.
Category Archives: Economics
Demon Coal In Canada
The CBC comes to its senses on climate change. I hope that this is a trend.
The Real Crisis In Europe
It’s the demographics, stupid. And unfortunately, we’re only a generation or so behind.
Extraterrestrial Real Estate
How will Newt’s prospects affect its value?
ObamaCare
It’s going to cost almost twice as much as they said it would.
Yeah, I’m shocked too. And I still think the estimate is low.
[Update a while later]
Here’s a new post by Phil Klein on the revised CBO estimates. Of course, as we said a that time, CBO estimates are always garbage in garbage out, and a lot of garbage went into it while it was being debated.
[Update a couple minutes later]
More on the lies from Guy Benson, with a bonus mention of the growing deficits, which means that there will be another debt-ceiling fight in the fall, before the election, if not sooner. Hilarious, considering all of the lies and charades the White House went through last summer to avoid that.
Crowdfunding
Congress should make it easier, but leave it to Harry Reid to screw it up.
Rent Control
…the case against it. It’s not a new one, but we may be on the verge of seeing SCOTUS finally shut it down after decades of urban destruction.
“If You Like Your Plan…”
“…you can keep your plan.” Wait, what?
What kind of fools really believed him when he said this? Was he so stupid as to believe it himself, or was he just lying? And which is worse?
More fodder for campaign ads in the fall.
The Entire Obama Presidency
…in one anecdote.
What kind of economic idiot is he? A blithering one.
EELV And The Launch-Cost Problem
A very good overview of the current state of affairs by Stewart Money over at The Space Review. It’s a mess, and it’s not going to change until we start to take more COTS-like approaches throughout, not just for NASA but DoD as well.