Saturday’s New York Times brought a remarkable story confirming my worst fears about the excesses of government efforts to encourage clean energy projects. The excellent work by Eric Lipton and Clifford Krauss focused on NRG’s California Valley Solar Ranch project. With help from Booz and Company, the terrific graphic that accompanied the story showed that […]
The most remarkable aspect of last night’s Republican presidential debate was not Rick Perry’s inability to name the third cabinet department that he would eliminate nor the booing of Maria Bartiromo for raising Herman Cain’s sexual harassment issues. It was the cheering that greeted Newt Gingrich’s emphatic statement that his first act as President would be to […]
On Monday October 24th Morning Joe, we discuss the following US vs. China scoreboard – a snapshot of their economy as opposed to ours. For the video explaining these charts, please click here. Morning Joe Charts – US vs China – 10.24.11
President Obama is visiting the General Motors plant at Lake Orion today with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to celebrate both the passage of the South Korean free trade agreement and also the evident success of his auto rescue program. But there is an interesting irony about today’s visit. The small car that is being […]
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, we discuss the legitimate concerns of the “Occupy Wall Street” protest — incomes have been steadily declining over the past decade. Please see below for the charts, or click here for the video explaining the charts. Morning Joe Charts – Census Charts – 10.13.11
…at least about one thing: Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, at least in the technical sense of the phrase. A Ponzi scheme (named after Charles Ponzi) is when an investment manager takes money entrusted to him by one person, squanders it and then uses money invested with him to repay the first person. Isn’t […]
On Morning Joe this Tuesday, September 13th, we discussed the US government’s decline in investments in infrastructure and spending on research and development. The charts below show the decline in both of these fields over the last few decades (as percentage of GDP), as well as the “report card” issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers, which rates overall […]
On Tuesday 9/6/11, the Morning Joe team discussed the deficit trajectory, its implications on job-creation and long-term recovery, unemployment levels and the severe drop in consumer confidence since the debt ceiling debate. Please see below for the charts, and please visit the Media section for the video clips. Morning Joe Charts – Deficit Trajectory-Unemployment Duration-Consumer […]
Last Sunday, The New York Times Magazine published an encomium to the potential of the electric battery industry to lead a resurgence in American manufacturing in the Midwest and elsewhere. In particular, the piece heralded the role of the Federal government, in providing funding through the economic stimulus program and various other sources to jump […]
The extraordinary outpouring of coverage of the resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple is well justified. It is difficult – maybe impossible – to think of another example of a leader who took a company from near oblivion and transformed it into the second (briefly, first) most valuable company on the planet in […]
