The Belching Bloated Swamp Thing, aka the federal government, is at it again. It now claims that more taxes are needed to slim it down. Which is like a Jenny Craig diet with just doughnuts. This graph shows the crux of the debate on debt … [Read More...]
Editors Note: I wrote this last year on January 22nd after Scott Brown's spectacular victory in Massachusetts. Many things have happened since or not happened depending on your point of view. The most important happened … [Read More...]
"More government services, please!" Stephen Moore has an editorial here where he fails to properly distinguish between the reasons for the growth in local and state government services and then makes the case that it might be possible … [Read More...]
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Although U.S. personal income per capita has risen 5.7 percent since 2000, an increase in tax-exempt benefits provided by the government and employers accounted for all of the income growth in the past decade, says a University … [Read More...]
Jeffrey Keefe has a paper here titled, “Debunking the Myth of the Overcompensated Public Employee: The Evidence”, which is flawed for several reasons including not distinguishing between well run states and poorly run states where public … [Read More...]
Snow Storms Waking up to a blanket of white covering everything, beautiful drifts piling up and swirling snow in the breeze is a wonder. That is what welcomed us in New England this past December. It was beautiful until I tried to open … [Read More...]
The Belching Bloated Swamp Thing, aka the federal government, is at it again. It now claims that more taxes are needed to slim it down. Which is like a Jenny Craig diet with just doughnuts. This graph shows the crux of the debate on debt and deficits and spending and taxes. Using the ratio of spending and revenues to GDP shows the … [Read more...]
As funny as it sounds your air conditioner may have really made Al Gore irrelevant (as if he needed help toward irrelevance since he can only publish in that prestigious journal of climate "Rolling Stone") and at the same time saved the planet. In a largely ignored paper here titled "What is the Major Culprit for Global Warming: CFCs or CO2 ?" Dr. … [Read more...]
David Stockwell over at Niche Modeling has a blockbuster post up on Hansen, et. al. paper on climate models. This is important because the high priest of temperature record manipulation keeping has admited that models are fundamentally flawed. Put this with Anthony Watts, et. al. study on siting of surface stations that shows no trend … [Read more...]
From the very good blog Becker/Posner we have intelligent commentary on the UN report of next 3 billion... On May 3, the United Nations issued its 2010 Revision of World Population Projections, which, according to the media, predicts that the world’s population, expected to reach 7 billion by the end of this year, will be 10.1 billion by the … [Read more...]
University of Michigan News Service April 1, 2011 The Population Bomb: How we survived it ANN ARBOR, Mich.—World population will reach 7 billion this year, prompting new concerns about whether the world will soon face a major population crisis. "In spite of 50 years of the fastest population growth on record, the world did remarkably … [Read more...]
CASL to improve reactor design, performance. Link to the report. … [Read more...]
With all the fire and fury from the unfecund left about Mr. Ryan's modest proposal for some private responsibility for retirement health spending we have a preview in the great white north of the wonderful cost savings that nationalized healthcare brings. The report, Canada's Medicare Bubble, shows that Canada's healthcare … [Read more...]
The implicit confidence in the beneficence of progress, that during the last two centuries marked the advanced thinker, has come to be regarded as the sign of a shallow mind. -- F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty UPDATE: Gary Becker has a good take on the UN report. Why should today be any different, another civilization hating … [Read more...]
–John Wayne finally caught up with Osama bin Laden, and killed him. The immediate reaction in the financial markets confirms my view that the dollar’s weakness and gold’s strength have been related to the perception that America is in decline. If that changes now, then the dollar might continue to strengthen and gold might at … [Read more...]