In private communication, Roger Chittum got me thinking about the vehicle component of gasoline consumption. I’m going focus on the gross vehicle numbers, and not get too deeply into the…
I made a mistake in my original post. Graph 4 in that post was based on the wrong data set. As Roger Chittum pointed out in comments, that graph only…
Yesterday, Karl Smith posted on Oil and the Structural Recession. This seems to be one of Karl’s thinking-out-loud posts, with more questions than answers, some convoluted reasoning, and a conclusion…
by Mike Kimel It has been a very long time since I looked at the National Review. Apparently it is still there. Jonah Goldberg (apparently also still there) had a…
…and constitutions, may be carried much farther than it hitherto has been, if men would sincerely, and with freedom of mind, employ all that industry and labour of thought, in…
…contamination problems and persuade customers that water is safe to drink (and thus worth paying for!) at the same time as it supports an independent industry for assuring water quality….
…a certain sort of individual …: “upright, self-sufficient, energetic, adventurous, indepedent-minded, loyal to friends and robust against foes.” (quoting Shirley Letwin) … Today, bourgeois virtues like industry, competitiveness, ambition and…
…James S. Henry who quantified the amount of capital parked in the off shore industry, $21 to $32 trillion year end 2010. Business Intelligence Investigator William Brittian Catlin who’s job…
…industry’s contribution (5 percent), citizens can take very effective action against thieving federal contractors, but remain vulnerable against those who rob them of their homes, savings and investments. Private Class…
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/02/26/business/26reuters-usa-fdic-earnings.html?src=busln&nl=business&emc=edit_dlbkpm_20130226&_r=0 The U.S. banking industry in 2012 recorded its highest earnings since before the 2007-2009 financial crisis, according to data released on Tuesday by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The…