Stone Pigs

undeniable underlying truths

CNN Admits Electric Cars are Foolish Pursuit

| January 17, 2009

They are essentially saying that electric cars don’t make good financial sense, and won’t do so in our lifetimes, but they still think that governments should spend billions upon billions to push them through anyway.

It’s Not Your Job to Lose

| January 2, 2009

One thing that troubles me is the apparent underlying assumption that he seems to be making. That is that a ‘job’ is something to which we have some sort of right. As someone who has employed people in the past, and hopes to employ people in the future, I have found there is often a great deal of confusion about ‘ownership’ of a job.

Housing Doesn’t Need Fixing

| November 13, 2008

It seems to me that housing would very quickly fix itself if the market were just allowed to take its natural course: homeowners default on mortgages, get foreclosed, banks sell asset at a loss to investors, who turn around and rent the house (possibly even back to the original resident).

Is Gas Priced Right?

| November 7, 2008

When we saw oil price increases of $5 in a single day, that wasn’t due to supply/demand — that’s speculation and/or political hysteria.

Obama is a Socialist

| October 31, 2008

One of the popular solutions often put forth on how to ‘fix’ health care in the US is this one: if you’re required to have car insurance, why not health insurance?