The Unbroken Window

This is how I thought news magazine pieces used to be written. If you can spare 20 minutes, please do read Adam Davidson’s outstanding Atlantic piece on modern manufacturing in America. It’s not just about manufacturing (or really much about it). It demonstrates a solid and nuanced understanding of economics, and should be the starting [...]

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That’s really what green energy religion has become. And now the Wall Street Journal is peddling it: For instance, the Production Tax Credit, first passed in 1992, has generated massive amounts of new growth in the wind industry, a sector employing 85,000 Americans. But each time Congress allows this credit to expire after a mere [...]

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A former student of mine, Sam Wecker, and his sister put together this little ditty. Enjoy!

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After we had this meeting the “Go Green” logo is still prominently displayed. Oh, and it has to be at least 20 days since a soul has even sat down at it, much less charged something at it.

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After all: (1) No thoughtful opponent of liberty and good economics is ever going to be persuaded by it. (2) There are lots and lots of incredibly good sites out there. Here is yet another terrific observation from Coyote: Dispatches from the Corporate State: A Study in Contrasts December 9, 2011, 11:39 am It is [...]

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The Climategate e-mails are simply breathtaking. Let me show you one more below, but please do note that I could explain this away by saying that if one believes long term warming will doom us if we do not do anything today, and that temporary cooling will forestall efforts to do something, one might reasonably [...]

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Nothing to see here, moving on … “The Republican plan says that what’s been standing in the way between us and full employment are laws that keep companies from polluting as much as they want,” Obama said in a speech at the regional airport in Asheville, N.C., on Monday. “On the other hand, our plan [...]

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I am sure all of the OWS folks read Plunder! from Steve Greenhut. I am sure they’ll rally around these: 82% of CA highway officers in 2002 taking disability retirements protections and privileges given to public employees that the “other 99%” do not receive Or what about the relative risks of various jobs? Or how [...]

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Two good ones in the news today: (1) Brother Joe: (via Mark Calabria via the WSJ) Speaking before a group of protesters in Zuccotti Park, Nobel economics prize winner Joseph Stiglitz urged on the crowd, telling them they are “right to be indignant.” Professor Stiglitz goes on to explain, correctly in my view, that we [...]

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The post title is a teaser for a longer one I will write up in the spring. The sentiment in the title has been shared with me several times in the past few years. What usually follows is an articulation that sure, those ideas were great for Madison and Washington, but the world is a [...]

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