Global: Is the world “de-globalizing” now?
Covid, and then Russia’s war on everyone, have led to numerous changes in global trade. Some argue that the multi-decade period of global trade expansion is ending and we will…
Public health: Was public health honest about anything?
China, after ending its non-sustainable ZeroCovid strategy, is now having a massive outbreak of Covid. That’s interesting: China also has near universal face mask compliance. But universal face masks and…
Dueling experts: New Covid variant risk low, or high, or whatever
Dueling experts: If you think dueling experts causes confusion and lack of confidence in their assertions – well, that is your problem! They are ExpertsTM – trust The ScienceTM Some…
Business: Dan Price and Gravity Payments perhaps not what it seemed
Famous for setting an employee base salary of $70,000/year, Gravity Payments was perhaps not what it seemed: But, in interviews with the Seattle Times, more than two dozen former Gravity…
It’s official: NPIs cannot stop the spread of Covid, but might delay it a little
Up to 90% of the US population has had Covid by now, say some official estimates. Hard to understand what the goal is here – per reports, older variants are…
Autos: New Law mandates “kill switch” on all new vehicles sold in 2027
Law Will Install Kill Switches In All New Cars for all new vehicles sold beginning in 2027. Requires that vehicles automatically determine if a driver is impaired and refuse to…
Demographics: “Value of graduate degrees is going down”
Yep: Another report from the New York Post suggests that students are pursuing graduate degrees to distinguish themselves in the job market. With degree inflation, or the rising percentage of…
Follow up: Norway Court drops charges against individual flying a drone over Svalbard
In response to Russia’s war on Ukraine, Norway banned Russian aircraft from flying over Norway, or the operation of non-Russian registered aircraft by a Russian citizen. The bureaucrats interpreted the…
Economy, public health: Public Health should not have unilateral rule making power
But as real-world data came in from places other than China the excuses for poor decisions become thinner, and the ceding of public policy choices to public health officials becomes…
Demographics: wage growth stalled in the ’70s and ’80s
Each side of this mostly friendly argument has a strength and a weakness. The difficulty of the wage-stagnation theory is that wages haven’t actually stagnated. Even looking only at men’s…