Archive - Thinking Ahead

California Spinnin'

As always, California has come up with imaginative solutions to national and even global problems.

Apr 2 •

February 2025

The Green New Deal Falls into a Black Hole

The energy developers’ business model based on Federal financial support for clean energy is dead.

Feb 24 •

A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER WITHOUT MIGRANTS…HOW DOES THAT WORK?

Whatever details eventually emerge about the Trump Administration’s tariff policies—-and how many of those eventually take effect—-the intention behind…

Feb 15 •

January 2025

CALIFORNIA’S HOUSING IS TRAPPED IN LA’S INSURANCE TAR PIT

The LA fires have not only consumed large swaths of Los Angeles; they are set to scorch home prices everywhere in California.

Jan 29 •

UNWINDING THE TRANSFORMER MESS

Back in April of last year, I thought that the Washington influence-industrial complex had finally come up with solutions for the Great Transformer…

Jan 16 •

May 2024

THE POLITICAL WEATHER REPORT FOR THE ELECTRICITY GRID

May 20, 2024 •

DOOMSCROLLING THE NEXT FINANCIAL CRASH — TWO INDEXES TO WATCH

If financial crash prediction were a science, it wouldn’t work because then market participants would position themselves to counter the risk and the…

May 6, 2024 •

THE ORIGIN OF THE PALESTINIAN FLAG

The Gaza-friendly demonstrators on US university campuses and around the world cluster around people carrying the “Palestine flag”…

May 6, 2024 •

April 2024

HOW WASHINGTON CREATED AND SOLVED THE GREAT TRANSFORMER SHORTAGE

You can learn a lot about big things by zooming in on (relatively) small things.

Apr 22, 2024 •

July 2023

MUNITIONS SHORTAGES IN UKRAINE AND IN HISTORY

A FOURTH OF JULY FIREWORKS SPECIAL! Why are there always munitions crises after wars begin?

Jul 4, 2023 •

June 2023

RON DESANTIS AND THE FLORIDA HOME INSURANCE UPRISING

Jun 22, 2023 •

April 2023

To my Subscribers

Apr 18, 2023 •

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