If the court upholds this odious legislation, it will have effectively removed all limits on federal government power. Which of course would be just fine with the totalitarians who voted for it.
Category Archives: Economics
The Continuing Lie
No, Virginia, there was no deregulation.
Peak Everything?
Thoughts from Ron Bailey, on running out of stuff. I found this interesting:
The folks at the GPRI point out that the phosphorus in just one person’s urine would be close to the amount needed to fertilize the food supply for one person. So why not recycle urine? In fact, NoMix toilets have been invented which allow for the collection of urine separate from solid wastes, allowing phosphorus and nitrogen to be recovered and used as fertilizer. In addition, crop biotechnologists are exploring ways to produce plants that dramatically increase the efficiency with which they use phosphorus, which would reduce the amount fertilizer needed to grow a given amount of food.
Urine recycling would be not just handy, but perhaps crucial, for space settlements.
On the broader point, as long as we have affordable energy and knowledge there’s no reason to run out of anything. The biggest problem is the overabundance of stupidity on the part of those who would rule our lives.
The Free-Market Frontier
The Orange County Register has come out in favor of the new direction in space.
I’m Just Glad Someone Did
Harry Reid, not Lindsey Graham, killed the climate bill.
A Commercial Space Development Scenario
John Hare lays one out, over at Selenian Boondocks.
Supply Side Isn’t Enough
Message to Republicans: it’s the spending, stupid.
A Green Tea Party
That’s what Pulitzer-Prize-winning authoritarian-government admirer Tom Friedman thinks the Tea Partiers should form. I always love this:
I’ve been trying to understand the Tea Party Movement. Sounds like a lot of angry people who want to get the government out of their lives and cut both taxes and the deficit. Nothing wrong with that — although one does wonder where they were in the Bush years.
They were there all along, and few of them were very happy about the spending, but they weren’t idiotic enough to think that the Democrats would be better. And sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.
Anyway, I think that what Beijing Tom really wants is a watermelon tea party.
You Don’t Say
Most economists say that the “stimulus” didn’t stimulate. I’m shocked, of course.
Trading Value For Power
Some thoughts on central planning.
Confusing cost, price and value is a continuous problem in the government space program.