Archive for August, 2011

The prehistory of the left

Saturday, August 6th, 2011

Vladimir, Moldbug, and Foseti discuss the prehistory of the left, also known as the United States Government.  Prehistory ends, and history starts, in the 1950s, because history before then got rewritten beyond recognition.

US federal government burn rate is 8% of GDP

Friday, August 5th, 2011

The burn rate is a eight percent of GDP.  Total debt is one hundred percent of GDP.

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Science stagnating in the west

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

John Goodman reminds us:

How many new drugs, Dr. Lajos Pusztai asks, were approved for breast cancer treatment in the past decade? His answer: seven. None was much different from drugs already on the market.

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