Is the drop in shipping rates charged by oil tankers in the Middle East a sign that OPEC is not able to meet its production targets?
Is the low amount of shipping traffic coming into America’s ports just noise in the data or is it a sign that we are going to have a really bad Click Here to continue reading.
This was cross posted over at Watching the Trades
Over at Architecture + Morality (they changed the “and” to the plus sign) Corbusier has a new post up called “What Makes a Community: The Problem of Property Ownership and New Urbanism.” As usual, Corbusier’s post is excellent and long overdue. (How come all the good writers Click Here to continue reading.
This from the Brussels Journal….
In Belgium, unlike anywhere else in the world, the three official trade unions, not the state, pay unemployment benefits. Each year the government gives them the necessary funds and also pays them a fee for every unemployed person they cater for. The perverse result is that it is in the unions’ Click Here to continue reading.
A while back an anonymous commenter tried to get me to react to this article in Slate. In the words of my anonymous commenter, “I just posted that to see your reaction to the educated class contemplating encouraging species suicide.”
I don’t know why this person wanted to bait me. I have posted numerous posts on Click Here to continue reading.
A substantial number of leftists, union leaders, American manufacturing CEO’s, and economists, think that that the average American worker should be paid less. And as much as it pains my hillbilly soul to admit it, I agree with them.
But I do have one gripe. Most of the afore-mentioned pressure groups are dishonest. They would Click Here to continue reading.
So once again I continue my unbroken string of not completing a series. I ought to be putting up Revenge of the Invisible Hand Part II right about now. I did start on it, but time and tide have sidetracked me.
For those of you who care, that series has a better chance of being finished Click Here to continue reading.
A lot of people don’t believe in the invisible hand. The rational always have difficulty believing in what they cannot see. Even those that profess to believe in this mysterious hand often have no understanding of how it works.
I don’t suppose I can lay claim to full understanding of the mysterious nature of the invisible Click Here to continue reading.
This is only for those who have a little bit of computer geek hidden deep inside themselves.
ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer and it was, “was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems, although earlier computers had been built with some of […]
Everyone who works in the building trades will eventually have to deal with difficult or awkward customers. Everyone handles the problem in different ways……
Alice the Architect believes in an eye for an eye.
Beedlebrox of plumbing the depths believes in running away and letting his partner deal with the problem.
A Sears’ tech sells his own Click Here to continue reading.
From Bob Vila’s blog….
That said, I CAN appreciate a roofing product that claims to last up to 100 years without needing significant maintenance. Such is the case with the steel roofing that Follansbee markets. The secret to their roof’s longevity is a ZT alloy plating over steel. It’s a combination of zinc and tin, and