Summary: The vital public policy debate over climate change is deadlocked. This is the sixth in a series about ways to restart the debate — and resolve it. This post gives Milton Friedman’s advice about the role of predictions as the gold standard for validation of theories. This implies that the key to policy action …
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Summary: The inflationista’s are (again) hysterically sounding alarms about looming US inflation. Or even hyperinflation. Let’s review the data. Can we see serious inflation? No. These fears are to a large extent fanned by conservatives for political purposes. Left and Right both see that Americans are most easily herded by fear, like sheep. The more graphic, even …
Summary: This is a brief report about Mexico, seen as a problem for the USA. Analysis of the problem and our government’s idiotic response, plus a possible solution. Contents “La Rubia y La Droga – Notes From an Unknown Planet“, Fred Reed, Fred on Everything, 30 March 2009 U.S. military outreach to Mexico likely to …
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Summary: The financial crisis began in December 2006. The recession probably started in early 2008. The economy went into cardiac arrest last week. This is the fourth in a series of posts discussing what needs to be done. For those of you who do not watch TV, “stat” is a medical term from the Latin …
“Europe will be forged in crises, and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises.” — Jean Monnet in his Memoirs (1978). He was one of the architect of the program to unite Europe (see his Wikipedia bio) Rule #1: even big things die. Geopolitical analysts too often assume the permanence of …
Can the European Monetary Union survive the next recession? Read More »
