Negative Space: broken windows
- Broken windows at the ATM
- I had my own personal broken window this week. Not a big fan of obstructing progress for make-work jobs.
- The Bureaucracy Event Horizon
- Government bureaucracy is the ultimate broken window.
- Going Rogue: An American Life
- Unlike politicians who have to fall back on their ancestors for middle-class anecdotes, Palin lived them. In the seventies, her father took them from rural Idaho to greater opportunities in Alaska, but it wasn’t her father who built their family business: it was Todd and Sarah.
- Growing from the ruins of a rotting industry
- There’s something incredibly liberating about kicking the ass of a moribund industry.
- Palin: make room for successful businesses
- Governor Palin in India says something I’ve been pushing for a long time, especially with regards to our moribund auto industry: when we reward failing companies, we are killing all of the innovative startups that would have arisen in the vacuum of their failure.
- Paul Krugman & President Obama furiously fix economy
- Improving Mexico’s economy: “Fast and Furious” gun-running plan from New York Times economist Paul Krugman.
- Upturns with no downturns
- A pessimistic clock might be right twice a day; it might not be. It’s hard to tell when the clock doesn’t even use the same numbers we’re used to.
