Breaking New Ground for This Blog: Kamala Harris Was Right (at Least Once) I really thought I would never post this, as I think Kamala Harris is in the dictionary next to "extreme Peter Principle," but she was right when she said that her loss to Trump was the closest Presidential loss this century, at least when looking at the popular vote.  John Hinderaker tries to argue otherwise: […]
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Rare Earths Are Rare in the US Only Because We Choose To Export Environmental Challenges As has been said by many commentators, rare earths are not particularly rare.  Via source, here is an estimate of their abundance in the Earth's surface: Note by the way the Y-axis is logarithmic so small changes in vertical position can mean a factor of 10 or more difference in concentration.  But the rare earths […]
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The Middle Class is Shrinking -- And That's a Good Thing An important goal of Marxist thought is the proletarianization of the middle class -- to convince great numbers of people in the office worker and shopkeeper classes that they are not beneficiaries of a rising tide of success but are no better than coal shovelers in a boiler room, victims of capitalist oppression that need […]
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Housing Affordability -- Where Everyone Is Wrong There is one simple answer to why housing costs rise faster than inflation and incomes -- restricted supply mated with subsidized demand.   In many locales the supply of housing is restricted by the government (rent control, growth limits, expensive and time-consuming permitting, etc) and in every part of the country housing is subsidized by the […]
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California Housing Shortage Perhaps the largest barrier to housing availability and affordability in places like California are permitting rules, land use restrictions, and construction codes that make it absurdly expensive, or even outright impossible, to construct new single or multi-family housing.  Part of this is a conspiracy of current homeowners to protect and increase the value of their […]
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