Category Archives: Economics

Calculated Risk: San Francisco Rents “On a tear”

Posted on 26 April 2012 by Shaun Kenney

Is this what recovery looks like? If San Francisco is any indicator… perhaps so: While rents in other parts of the country are rising around the pace of inflation, at 2.7%, the average rental price in San Francisco shot up … Continue reading →

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Gary North: Avoiding Kamikaze Politics

Posted on 15 April 2012 by Shaun Kenney

…or better entitled, why a third-party run is a really bad idea: We need 8 years to quietly infiltrate the Republican Party’s county organizations, especially in rural counties where Democrats are dominant. Nobody wants to be a Republicans in in … Continue reading →

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Atlantic: Americans Who Actually Make Things

Posted on 27 March 2012 by Shaun Kenney

Great piece in the Atlantic this morning on the state of American manufacturing: Of course, the United States still produces a huge amount of food, but we do it far more efficiently and with far fewer people. Similarly, America still makes a … Continue reading →

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WaPo: Can The President Reduce Gas Prices?

Posted on 24 March 2012 by Shaun Kenney

The answer to this question is an immediate no.  The POTUS couldn’t do it in 2008; the POTUS couldn’t do it in 2012 (at least to an immediate effect). Republicans this morning are gleefully sharing how the Democrats are more … Continue reading →

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Calculated Risk: New Home Sales Decline, Housing Market Recovered?

Posted on 23 March 2012 by Shaun Kenney

Seems like the glut of new homes on the market has finally come down to within 6-months inventory, a metric that indicates the glut of homes on the market has finally — FINALLY — come back to within some degree … Continue reading →

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Locavores As Narcissism?

Posted on 6 March 2012 by Shaun Kenney

Interesting book review from someone who believes the local food movement is really more about middle class arrogance than security: Through their purchases, these consumers are consciously seeking to affirm and demarcate themselves from the rest of society. Those who … Continue reading →

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Rumors of the Death of the West Have Been GREATLY Exaggerated…

Posted on 2 March 2012 by Shaun Kenney

Great reading this morning from City Journal: It’s indisputable that the Anglosphere no longer enjoys the overwhelming global dominance that it once had. What was once a globe-spanning empire is now best understood as a union of language, culture, and … Continue reading →

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Montaigne and Solidarity

Posted on 15 February 2012 by Shaun Kenney

I have recently taken a great deal of interest in the writings of Fr. Heinrich Pesch, S.J. and the principles of Catholic solidarism — namely the very economic principles that helped to liberate and then build a prosperous Poland not to … Continue reading →

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WaEx: Obama sees recovery 1-2 years off

Posted on 13 February 2012 by Shaun Kenney

Of course Obama sees the recovery as 18-24 months in the making.  From the WaEx: A letter provided to Washington Secrets from Obama to a long-unemployed Portland, Maine carpenter pulls back the curtain of economic hope to reveal the truth … Continue reading →

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The New Yorker: To What Ends Incarceration?

Posted on 24 January 2012 by Shaun Kenney

Great article in the New Yorker regarding America’s prisons and the sense of “timeless time” that pervades: That’s why no one who has been inside a prison, if only for a day, can ever forget the feeling. Time stops. A … Continue reading →

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