Putting some facts and figures of the scale of the US arms merchant business.
Friday, August 8, 2025
Tesla Encounters the Material World
The likely failure of Tesla’s hyper-automated manufacturing process, and the externalities of battery fires in electric vehicles.
Is It Time to Delete Facebook?
Could it be that public indignation at the Facebook profile harvesting scandal will lead to new regulation that could impede the value of some tech-based advertising models? Will it lead to a consumer backlash?
Climate Policy: When Starting With the Most Expensive Option Makes Sense
Why much of what you thought you knew about climate change mitigation is wrong.
How to Democratise Brexit and Take Back Control of our Future: An Appeal to Jeremy Corbyn
Now that the Brexit realities are starting to sink in, pundits are finding new magic sparkle ponies to tout as possible solutions.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/30/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Steel tariffs, Trump bounce, the Democrat base, Tesla manufacturing ills, Uber technology woes, Facebook Fracas, hip hop, Wittgenstein’s emojis
How Many Opioid Overdoses Are Suicides?
Time to look harder at the reasons for rising opioid deaths.
Current Kentucky Retirement Systems Trustees Considering Throwing Predecessors Under the Bus to Get Blackstone and KKR
Is a pension fund management revolution brewing in what would seem to be the most unlikely place, that hotbed of corruption, the Kentucky Retirement Systems?
Why We Should Not Be Surprised Trump Could Do a Deal Over Nuclear Weapons with North Korea
Believe it or not, Trump has had a long standing interest in nuclear proliferation.
Callling All Twin Cities Residents! Be Sure to Swing by the Minneapolis Meetup Tomorrow PM, Saturday March 31
A reminder about the Minneapolis meetup this evening: Locals, be sure to stop by!
Gaius Publius: How to Turn Off Third-Party Data Access to Your Facebook Account
A how-to for people who can’t give up on Facebook but want to reduce their snooping exposure.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/29/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, Stormy Daniels, Obandonment, privatizing the VA, consumer sentiment, personal income, next-generation hedgies, Amazon, Facebook, edible forests
