How it burns out.
If I were in charge, I would remove the word “race” from the entire federal code.
Category Archives: Economics
College As A Commodity
We are looking at the end stages. The scam can’t end soon enough.
People are noting in the restaurant post that (ignoring the Democrats’ ongoing war against small businesses), the institutions hit hardest by the pandemic are dominated by the left. There is no small irony in that.
[Update a while later]
Steven Hayward: “Where’s the bad news here?”
The Restaurant Industry
The pandemic (and often stupid response to it) is on the verge of destroying it.
I have to confess that I wouldn’t miss it all that much, except when I travel. I can prepare my own food much healthier, and much lower cost. The fact that so many young people thought they could afford to pay other people to cook for them is one of the reasons that generation is having a tough time financially.
The Space Industry
Morgan Stanley thinks that investors should be more interested in it than they are.
[Afternoon update]
Sorry, didn’t realize that article was two years old.
Cuomo
Baby, please come back.
This virus has been like a wildfire, sweeping through education, academia, and blue cities. It took technological and social trends that were already happening, and rapidly accelerated them, and now they’re smoldering ashes. I don’t think any of them will ever be the same again. And that’s not a bad thing.
The Virus
…has been oversold.
At some point, the people will simply rebel.
And a depressing post from Virginia Postrel about “the new normal.”
[Update a few minutes later]
In which the former editor of Reason magazine is called a “lefty Marxist.”
Space Solar Power
Here’s an overview of the state of the art of needed technologies to beam power to earth, from almost three decades ago, when I was working at Rockwell. I ran across it in trying to reduce the entropy of my office. It’s funny how little has changed.
Sorry about the rotation; that’s how it scanned into the PDF. Just rotate it with your browser.
“Property Damage”
“Property rights are human rights, and we discard them at our peril.”
California’s Woke Hypocrisy
Kotkin nails it, as usual.
The Republicans should be able to take advantage of this, with a pitch to the Hispanics and blacks, but they won’t. But if Trump were to campaign in CA, it could help a lot.
NYC’s Refugees
How to bring them back home.
Unfortunately, Cuomo and De Blasio aren’t up to the job.