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The highly publicized – first by the White House, now by the media – “Green Movement,” which subsidizes alternative energy while strangling hydrocarbon-based energy, is a near-perfect example of why government is the worst source for making generalized economic policy. First,...
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Newt Gingrich and others are making a lot of noise about Mitt Romney’s time as managing partner at Bain Capital, a private equity firm. This is disappointing coming from Mr Gingrich because he knows better. It’s the first time that I know he is being disingenuous with the voters, and it damages...
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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Apple Inc. said late Wednesday that the company's founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs has died. Jobs was 56. "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations...
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There were two debates last week, one televised one not, both important on a national level. Taking the televised one first, professional Republicans are, again, looking for a not-Romney candidate after Governor Perry’s lackluster performance Thursday night. It may be a case of style over substance...
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The history of bubbles is that they inflate until “conventional wisdom” catches up with reality and people realize that the inflated commodity is dangerously overvalued, and the bubble pops. This results in an overreaction, depressing the value of the commodity until it is undervalued, and people get...
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Remembering that a market economy will tend to recover from recession in around 18 months on its own, recovery strategies by government need to affect the general economy within that first year and a half, or it is wasted. Realizing that we need two or three quarters to confirm that we are in a recession...
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On December 18 1999, NASA lifted the Terra (EOS AM-1) satellite into sun-synchronous orbit aboard an Atlas IIAS SLV from Vandenberg AFB [California]. Its five sensors began collecting data on February 24 2000 with the mission of monitoring Earth’s atmosphere in order to quantify climate change...
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Let’s take a deep breath and look at where we are, and at what’s the norm. Everybody seems to agree that the current vector of government needs adjustment. That’s where agreement ends. We are on track for running trillion-dollar deficits ad infinitum , so the track needs changing. The...
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Our last shuttle Lifted off from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 1129 on Friday morning, beginning STS-135, a twelve-day mission to the International Space Station. After its recovery, we will voluntarily hand manned space operations to the Russians and Chinese. America is fundamentally changing...
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Hong Kong Airlines Limited is going to buy ten Airbus A380 superjumbo jet airliners, at a catalogue value of $4 billion, business (and exports) that could have gone to Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner , if it weren’t for the Obama administration’s demand that they be made in Everett Washington, wasting Boeing...