Clearing the Tabs August 15, 2024

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on August 31. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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August 4
Why No One Actually Predicted The 2021 ‘Inflation’

August 5
The (Non) Mystery of Economic Growth

August 13
The Obnoxious Conceit Behind 'Recession' Warnings

Clearing the Tabs June 30, 2022

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on July 15. And note that just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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June 16

Why Elephants Are Not People

June 17
Merchant ships and planes needed to support world’s eight billion

June 19

Compassion Is Conservative, Contempt Is Communist
Forget about “compassionate conservatives.” What this country really needs is compassionate Democrats.

June 20
Engineered California
The birthplace of environmentalism was built through meticulous application of technology.

June 21
The Bureaucratization of American Leadership

June 22

Why Many Poor Neighborhoods Fear Development
Corporate investment can be an economic boon to low-income communities. It can also be a cultural threat.

June 23

Class is back
The global cost-of-living crisis has made obscene inequalities impossible to ignore.

Deranged COVID-clingers still want Broadwaygoers to be put through Rikers-like procedures

Heartland Manufacturing Renaissance
Why Middle America is poised to lead an industrial comeback

Inflation Eats Infrastructure Bill

June 26
Learning from Las Vegas: Sustainable vs. Susceptible

June 29
Dark clouds on the horizon for electric vehicles

June 30
Don’t Surround Yourself With Admirers
Instead, befriend people who inspire awe in you.

The cost of Biden’s racialism
Minorities are paying for his progressive failures

Clearing the Tabs June 15, 2022

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on June 30. And note that just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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June 5
America’s great cities are gripped by decline and disorder
Voters have had enough of ‘progressive’ leaders who are presiding over spiralling violence and crime.

June 6
The Battle for L.A.

Can Rick Caruso convince enough voters that their troubled city can recapture its role as an incubator of the American dream?

June 7
Is it ethical to purchase a lithium battery powered EV?

June 8
April Transit Falls to 58.7% of Pre-Pandemic Levels

Conservatives' Missing Link on Gender Roles

June 9

Reconsidering the City
If they are to survive and thrive, cities need to become more people-friendly.

June 12
In an Outrage Culture, Choose Respect

Democracy Needs to Replace City Manager Ward System

June 15

Vaccine injuries and deaths are causing inflation through supply shocks and reduced labor participation: Dowd
Three million more disabled in US since jab started; Fed should be loosening monetary policy, not tightening, says Blackrock ex-manager

Forget College. Skilled Trades Are the Future of the U.S. Economy

Clearing the Tabs February 15, 2022

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on February 28 as well. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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February 1
Inflation in the United States

Exurbia Rising

February 4
The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself

February 5
Biden is disconnected from Americans reluctance to be regulated out of fossil fuel prosperity

February 8
How To Want Less
The secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff.

A new dawn for the working class?
Workers have more power than any time since the 1950s.

February 9
The Zaibatsu-ization of America
Our tech overlords have forsaken innovation for consolidation.

February 10
The Common Dating Strategy That's Totally Wrong
If you’re looking for romance, stop focusing on what you and your date have in common.

February 12
Philly to Fayette: Nowhere to live, nowhere to go

February 13
The great awakening

Why Progressives Can’t Quit Their Masks

February 14
The Tech Breakdown
Big tech is leaving Silicon Valley for new hubs in the heartland

Studs Terkel's Working, 50 Years On

The Similarities Between ESG And Fascism Are Scary
Time Magazine was enthralled with Adolf Hitler in the 30’s, and endorses similar results from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) divesting objectives.

Green hypocrisy hurts the poorest
The West's war on energy is crippling Africa

Clearing the Tabs January 31, 2022

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on February 15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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January 16

The moment Joe Biden finally lost his credibility

January 17
Joe Biden's Jim Crow 2.0 tour collides with reality: Blacks strongly support voter ID

The Cincinnati Nightmare

“ESG” = Extreme Shortages Guaranteed!

Why I Dislike the Word ‘Capitalism’

January 18
Conference USA 2022 Season Preview, Four Teams Stand Above the Pack

January 19

California’s economy is weaker than it looks
An over-reliance on a small number of companies won't work in the long term

An Open Letter to the College Student Facing Weighty Decisions

January 20
Live Like the Ancient Cynics
Modern cynicism traps you in an unhappy cycle. The original version will set you free.

January 22
What Should Be Done about Academic Bias?

January 23
From the Pa. Farm Show: Energy costs are top concern

Crossing (or not) the 1.5 and 2.0C thresholds

The 2nd Amendment Protects the Rights of All Americans

January 24
No Economic Concept Is More Thoroughly Misunderstood Than Inflation

2020 lingers only for those out of touch with voters' march forward

Ottawa, Canada is following Germany’s failed climate goals

January 25
How Biden can defeat China
Putin and Xi are more vulnerable than we think

January 27
Art Should Be a Habit, Not a Luxury
Just like exercise and sleep, engaging with the arts is a necessity for a full and happy life.

January 28
The Evolving Geography of Opportunity: Leading Cities of the Past, Present, and Future
This report explores a diverse array of thriving, high-opportunity metropolitan areas and the lessons they offer on how to expand opportunity and economic mobility in the United States.

January 30
From Cover Girl to guns and elk hunts

From Philly to Fayette, water woes cross geographic and racial lines

Clearing the Tabs January 15, 2022

Happy New Year! Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on January 31 as well. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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January 1
Small town is a feeling in the Strip District

January 3
Trouble in Paradise: The Crumbling California Model
California is broken, but it is not doomed.

Welcome to the end of democracy
A rising tide of money and administrative power defines the rising autocracy

January 4
Philly's crime wave could affect the midterm election results in Pennsylvania

The Economics Of How San Francisco’s Drug Policies Are Devastating The City

Is this the end of progressive America?
Multiple fronts of resistance are taking shape

January 5
Class War is Just
Seismic economic and demographic changes will feed division and conflict.

Imagine electric vehicles in bad weather

January 6
Free Markets, Not Slave Markets
On the enmity between human bondage and capitalism

January 9
COVID-19 allowed too many to pervert their power

Is it Time for Intellectuals to Talk about God?
It's a New Dark Age. Evil abounds. Is a postmodern embarrassment about discussing spiritual matters, keeping us stupid and putting us in danger?

January 12
Inflation is eating away at the heart of America’s small businesses

California Is a Bastion of Innovation Marred by Deep Inequality. Is That America's Future?

January 13
How to Succeed at Failure
Sometimes you just can’t win. Make the most of it.

Sasse Blasts Biden’s ‘Senile’ Demagoguery
The Nebraska senator also took aim at the Democratic voting bills in question and made the case for reforming the Electoral Count Act.

Ultimate Agglomeration Diseconomy: The Standard of Living

January 14
Plenty of Waste at the Pentagon, but America’s Big Fiscal Problem Is Domestic Spending

Clearing the Tabs December 31, 2021

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on January 31. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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December 16

That's An Ugly CPI Number. Thank Goodness It's Not Inflation.

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A real rural future

December 17
What Will 'Build Back Better' Buy? Inflation.
Deficit spending and debt are out of control, and dragging down the purchasing power of the dollar.

Western greed fuels China’s domination
Our oligarchs prostrate themselves for profit

December 18
How inflation is squeezing working American families at Christmas

Decarbonization cannot manufacture the products demanded by civilization

December 19
Paul Volcker, the Fed, and ‘Tight Credit.’ The Myth That Won’t Die.

December 20
The Pandemic as an Employment Shell Game

December 22
The Carpetbagger’s Guide to Home Ownership

December 23
The Ghost of Christmas Inflation

December 26
Staying home and turning the town around

New U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates: A New World?

California’s keenest competition for innovation sector jobs? Other bluish Western states

December 29
The left doesn’t own minority voters
Unless left-wing parties drop their woke dogmas, they’ll struggle in the increasingly diverse West.

December 30
Give Your Money. Give Your Time. Don’t Tell Anyone.
You can find deep, lasting happiness in a good deed that no one knows you did.

Year in review

Vehicle Miles Traveled vs. Pay-at-the-Pump Gas Tax

December 31
Here’s Why California Is Losing Population for the First Time

Clearing the Tabs November 15, 2021

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on November 30 as well. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

November 1
Serfing the planet
Green policies will accelerate the immiseration of the global working and middle class.

November 3
Crude Oil is seldom used for electricity, so why tinker with the supply chain?

November 4

Did critical race theory lose Virginia?
The Republicans' shock win proves Bidenism is dead

Henry Kissinger Writes With Worry About a Future That Will Be Brilliant

November 5
Without fossil fuel infrastructure we’re supposed to have an ENERGY CRISIS!

November 6
Virginia election proves voters are sick of hearing about Donald Trump

November 7
The voters revolt against our cultural curators, again

New congressional districts could spell trouble for Democrats

You Don’t Hate Jeff Bezos And Elon Musk, Rather You Hate Big Government

November 9
Shortage Economy: Will We Go Marching?

November 11
The Next Environmental Crisis

November 11
No One Cares!
Our fears about what other people think of us are overblown and rarely worth fretting over.

November 12
California Dreamin’

November 14
It Would Help If the Neo ‘Inflation’ Hawks Understood What Inflation Is

America Is Built on a Great Culture. Progressives Want to Abandon It

November 15
The GND has no plan to replace crude oil products

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Clearing the Tabs May 31, 2021

Happy Memorial Day!

May 20
Inflation Is the Most Miserable Tax of All

May 21

Follow The Money: How Texas Squandered $66 Billion on Unreliable Wind & Solar

May 23

‘Big Tech’ Risks Going Down A Path Of Decline Paved By ‘Big Rail’

May 25
Capitalism Can't Fix An Artificial Labor Shortage

$85 Billion for Empty Buses and Railcars

May 26
What ‘I, Pencil’ Could Teach Joe Biden About Supply Chains

May 27
Joe Biden’s Imaginary America

His policies seem designed for coastal enclaves that do not represent most of the country