Summary: This looks at an important new GAO climate change report, and how the news media misreport it. While a small episode, it reveals much about the problem of climate change, about journalism, and why three decades of advocacy for climate change action has produced so little action. “We don’t even plan for the past.” …
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Summary: We need less government waste and greater efficiency. These are good and important objectives, but we must have realistic expectations about the potential gains. Other than transfer payments (a separate problem) spending on the government machinery funds the military and intelligence agencies — with everything else an annex. G. I. Wilson looks at the size …
What determines geopolitical strength, and ultimately survivability, for a nation? At or near the top of the list is solvency — a nation’s ability to meet its obligations. Since 2003 David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States (now retired) has warned us of the precarious and deteriorating finances of the US Federal and …
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