The great strategic opportunity?
We could do worse, and probably will.
Category Archives: Economics
Generative AI
California’s Predicted Fiscal Firestorm
This will…complicate…Newsom’s presidential bid.
Hydrogen
This could be huge. And if it’s true, it might also partly validate Thomas Gold’s theory that natural gas is abiotic (and also unlimited).
Saving The Planet
“Why I am against it, and you should be, too.”
New Cars
Regular people can’t afford them any more.
I’ve never bought a new car, and there’s no way I’d do it at these crazy prices. At some point, though, you’d think that one of the automakers would go after this unserved market, and drive prices down with some competition.
“Equity”
…is Marxism re-branded.
Yup.
Lunar ISRU
I’m glad to see that Blue Origin is making some breakthroughs in some areas. This implies (among other things) that solar power satellites could be partially constructed from lunar materials. The question is whether it makes economic sense compared to low-cost launch from Earth.
[Afternoon update]
[Tuesday-morning update]
Here’s the story from Eric Berger.
The Retreat From Globalism
People don’t want to be squelched by Big Tech or Big Government.
And they particularly don’t want it done by collusion between the two.