Bryan Caplan wonders if oil prices are a bubble. When oil spikes abruptly, that means people made incorrect investment decisions – under invested in exploration, development, and gas to liquids conversion. A simple back of the envelope calculation tells me they are still under investing. Exxon recently abandoned gas to liquids plant that would be …
Author: Jim
Mark Steyn predicts the end of Israel
Bush’s idea of exporting democracy to Muslim lands has turned out to be a disaster. Our enemies can win elections, and frequently do.
Vote Obama
The presidents that have done the most to smash capitalism have never been Democrats, because anti capitalist Democrat presidents have always found themselves paralyzed by gridlock – the pro capitalist faction unites along party lines, and the federal government system locks up, as it was designed to do. The founding fathers intentionally constructed the federal …
Genocide and environmentalism
When someone says “There are too many Jews,†we suspect that he wants to kill Jews. And when someone says there are too many people …
Global sea ice
Before Aqua, the best way to estimate changes in global temperature was to look at proxies such as total ice coverage – and the proxies have been telling us that nothing much has changed.
Muslim moderates sighted
How can you tell a Muslim moderate?
His throat is cut from ear to ear.
US$ declining as a reserve currency
Such a change is cataclysmically rapid compared to the normally glacial rate of monetary change.
Paul Collier explains the famine
the twentieth century was a time of socialist famines. Let us hope the twenty first century is not a time of greenie famines.
Coal to oil is not under development
People are starving yet we still treat energy developers as criminals, rather than heroes.
Regulation kills
Today, a lot of people are going hungry because of an energy crisis. When we look at businesses that are attempting to address the energy crisis, for example Linc Energy Systems, we see that ninety percent of their effort, energy, and thought, is addressed to the political problem of getting permits and approvals, and very …