It’s Your Money But You Can’t Have It: EU Proposes Account Freezes to Halt Bank Runs.
July 31, 2017
Is the world really better than ever? If you’re a rich white man in the Northeast, yep!
July 30, 2017
July 29, 2017
The Tesla Model 3 Is More Than an Electric Car―It’s a Landmark in Automotive History. Or to hear leftists tell it’s pure evil and bad and bad bad bad as are all big projects and better visions of society except deprivation and sacrifice. Ah, religious beliefs.
“Ban the box”: Laws against asking prospective hires about their criminal history are hurting black applicants. Liberals do not focus enough on unintended effects of policy. “Feel good” policy isn’t always (or even usually) best policy….
A Bay Area developer wants to build 4,400 homes where they may be sorely needed. Here’s why it won’t happen. That area of the country is so screwed.
July 28, 2017
Why are reporters calling a bill that would destroy health insurance markets and cause mass insurance loss “skinny repeal”? 1) A catchy name and propaganda work. 2) Look at who pays reporters’ salaries.
Pence: Millions losing health insurance is “the very essence of living in a free society.” It turns out that I do hate freedom.
More than 800,000 people who took out car loans from Wells Fargo were charged for auto insurance they did not need, and some of them are still paying for it. In a sane world, a company like that would be destroyed, and its executives thrown in jail.
Freed From ISIS, Yazidi Women Return in ‘Severe Shock.’ Fucking Christ. I wish I had not read this.
July 27, 2017
Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? Always wondered how Macs did that so quickly whereas all other OSes are snail slow.
July 26, 2017
July 25, 2017
Nobody puts 20% down on a house anymore. In a way, this is rational. In non-recourse states the less capital you have actually tied up in something now highly risky, the better.
July 24, 2017
Spreading fake news about Putin, or Red-scare propaganda, does nothing to defeat Trump. The point is not to defeat Trump (or Putin), but rather to preserve existing Dem panjandrums.
By dismantling its copy desk, The New York Times is making a mistake that’s been made before. The MBA cloning operation permits nothing else.
Is Productivity Growth Becoming Irrelevant? Orthodox economists insist “productivity” is completely accurate and relevant, when it completely obviously no longer is.
July 23, 2017