Month: May 2009

Number 86 24 May 2009 A Meditation On Investment The economy, alas. The outlook is gloomy, the present is a disaster (which is not as bad as a catastrophe), and the recent past provides multiple examples of recklessness,...

Basic Truths And Imaginary Concepts Here is a graph that gets a cute introduction as what one might call “econo-porn.” The play on words is sort of clever, but the overall concept is not. That’s because it is...

The Visionary Architects Of European Economic Recovery After The Second World War May Have Been At Apex Of The Nazi Schutzstaffel Germany recovered from WW II to become a pan-European economic success. Was it all a Nazi plot? A...

Number 83 13 May 2009 The Future Looks Like A Horror, And, Due To A Lack Of Sheer Intestinal Fortitude, There Seems To Be Nothing We Can Do About It The Penguin Post is not inclined to pessimism. The outlook here is generally...

The Anthropogenic Global Warming Cultists Shift Gears, Expecting That Will Fool A Public They Consider Stupid According to this article in the NYT, it’s time for the nuts in Al Gore’s cult to give up the term...