Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Our take from three years ago: "a propaganda-fed base has no capacity to self correct, rather it continues follow unsustainable paths that only gain momentum"

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The next time someone asks why the GOP doesn't veer away from stands that look increasingly likely to end in electoral disaster, we have...
Monday, June 29, 2020

I hate to spoil another blogger's joke...

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So just click over to the Financial Times and read this cautionary list of red flags to watch out for when trying to avoid companies like...
Friday, June 26, 2020

Tesla context -- Why the red flags matter

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It may seem like we've been picking on Tesla quite a bit lately. Sure, Musk is annoying, but the SpaceX stuff is cool, and we can all g...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Some thoughts on recent reporting on Tesla

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This is Joseph One thing that I have not talked a lot about on the blog is Tesla (usually Mark's beat -- Mark is reporting on Tesla on...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

The standard journalistic definition of bias is absurdly narrow but at least it’s self-serving.

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Consider the following hypothetical.  Upon reviewing the records of a male professor, we find a consistent pattern of his giving lower gra...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Tuesday Tweets

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Some guy out there actually named Seymour Butz is about to get a ton of mailers from the Trump campaign. — Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) Ju...
Monday, June 22, 2020

To misplace one billion dollars may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.

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Just to get everyone up to speed . Wirecard shares plunged more than 60% on Thursday as the German payments giant postponed its annual ...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Jengaville -- "The culture that produces $2B of fake revenue doesn’t produce ‘isolated’ frauds."

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It is inevitable. The money isn’t missing. IT DIDN’T EXIST. The culture that produces $2B of fake revenue doesn’t produce ‘isolated’ f...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

Welcome to Jengaville

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I've been following a lot of big stories that involve what would seem to be increasingly unstable dynamics like a market bubble in th...
Friday, June 19, 2020

Friday blogging -- lots of big posts coming next week, but for now I'm kicking back

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I'm a sucker for this sort of thing. (h/t to Adam Tooze) This one's as remarkable for its cast as for its look at modern li...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

If only the government would get out of the way of these Silicon Valley visionaries.

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From the Waco Tribune-Herald : Fresh from making history by sending a manned craft to the International Space Station, SpaceX is asking...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Deferred Tuesday Tweets -- "Let's you and him fight."

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I never miss a chance to quote the great E. C. Segar. pic.twitter.com/SASAtK2Gkj — Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) June 16, 2020 (For ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Daycare

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This is Joseph This point rather illustrates the issues going forward: If a bunch of the local elementary schools address social distan...
Monday, June 15, 2020

If the next generation of Teslas turns out to be a line of hovercrafts, I’ll have to retract this post.

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[I was going to open this post with a brief discussion of concerns with treating the pandemic as a natural experiment, but I have stat profe...
Friday, June 12, 2020

Another Friday post -- this probably fills our Ernie Bushmiller quota for a while.

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Obviously no suggestion of plagiarism here, but compare this 1943 strip to the closing gag of the Monk reunion. ...