More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Significance greater than success.
- Expectation, policy, and and the anatomy of recent inflation.
- Matt Ridley: The gas price shock will expose Britain's catastrophic energy misjudgment.
- Will Scandinavian and Baltic Europe lead our European allies to the Strait of Hormuz?
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- Reports of the GOPs demise have been exaggerated. He's not wrong.
- We wish you a Merry Christmas Bruins style.
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- From Wednesday's WSJ. Are you better off today today than four years ago?
- Tucker Carlson pushing back twice as hard.
- Interesting - never heard of Nano-hydroxyapatite before or NOBS. This is probably old news to people with sensitive teeth.
Many a truth is said in jest.
- Have that same thought every time I see that movie.
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- I support this bill 100%. Anthony Fauci was a puppy torturer.
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- Nealy all Maine residents victims of state data breach. (HT Steve Landy)
- In the South they'd say, "Isn't she special." If you get your economic knowledge from the Atlantic you're special too.
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- Truflation is a site you should check periodically.
- Matt Taibbi on Facebook allowing the Biden White House to censor content.
- I wasn't aware I was in need of a new conspiracy theory but there you go.
- Shocker - not one 8th grade student at Lebron James' I Promise School has passed state's math test in 3-years. Either these scores are due to the school only being 5-years old, the school starting in 8th grade (and the failure is really on who was "teaching" the students before) or James is much better at PR than education. Not sure.
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- Morgan Housel on Compounding Optimism. Coulnt me as a big Matt Ridley fan.
- Analysis - true! (HT Some Its Just as Well)
- Tucker Carlson's Twitter Episode 3 - America's principles are at stake
- Science shows the Wim Hof method is good for curing inflamation. "The training program, or elements of it, could translate into a novel treatment modality for patients with inlamation conditions."
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." - Benjamin Franklin
"I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments." - Friedrich Hayek
"There is no limit on better. Talent is distributed unfairly, but there is no limit on how much we can improve what we start with." - Kevin Kelly
"I ask these questions in all innocence, and am ready to be told that it is disgraceful to even to mention them - which usually means that the question has hit uncomfortably close to home." - George MacDonald Fraser
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Consumer Price Inflation by type of goods or service (2000-2022). Notice the more government involvement - the higher the price to the consumer.
- Webb telescope discovery so shocking astronomers thought it was a mistake - "let go of your expectations and be ready to be surprised." Much of what we think we know will later prove to be wrong.
- China goes all-in on Russian war effort. We send Ukraine tanks and China figures OK then we'll sell Russia weapons too. Where does the escalation end?
- Morgan Housel with a few short stories on "How It All Works"
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- Some good news - the Truflation Inflation Dashboard shows inflation trending downwards. It was at 5.21% as I wrote this.
- Morgan Freeman on Black History Month.
- Sad news on Bruce Willis - he has frontotemporal dementia and his condition is worsening.
- More good news - the levels of coral on the Great Barrier Reef are at record levels. The impact of "bleaching events" were wildly overstated by the media.
Used to be you'd buy a carton of eggs. Some kind of cardboard container everyone who shops was familiar with. And if you're like me when buying eggs you'd open up the carton container and check to see if there were any broken eggs. If there were - back on the shelf that carton went.
Today there seems to be fewer eggs at the super market and those that are there now usually come in this double sealed plastic container. You can visually inspect the eggs but opening up the container to check becomes much more of a production then it used to be.
Did the increase in prices cause the change to a more protective but more expensive packaging? If there's less "breakage" then this would make sense. But where's the outrage from the folks who wanted to outlaw plastic straws on all this new plastic being introduced to the average home? And whatever happened to those cartons of eggs that had a broken egg that I - and others - would just place back on the shelf? Did they just sit there until someone who didn't check bought them? Did the supermarket take the unbroken eggs and repackage them in different cartons? Or was the whole thing chucked out in the trash?
These are the types of things I think about in the shower.
England is experiencing an "economic crisis" according to some. Across the board tax cuts are, in some people's minds, the reason for the crisis. The tax cuts will lead to deficits which in turn will lead to inflation.
Is it me or are the same people warning that government deficits in the UK will lead to inflation the same folks who were cheerleaders to the Biden Administration's huge deficits? Which coupled with the printing of trillions of dollars backed by nothing and ignorant energy policies has led to inflation.
Inflation is real across the globe but the root causes, according to corporate media, changes from day to day.
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