Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
Whether China will build a hundred new coal plants in 2025 is uncertain. Nobody, including Mr. Bessent, has a crystal ball. Yet his larger point about China is correct. Though China is often lauded as a world leader in renewable energy (and in some ways it is), in recent years it has ramped up coal … Read more
The true purpose of laws that ban self-serve filling stations has nothing to do with safety or “the common good.” For the first time since the Truman administration, Oregon drivers will be permitted to grab a fuel hose and fill their gas tanks all by themselves. Governor Tina Kotek on Friday signed legislation, which went … Read more
[H]ere’s some financial takeaways I’d share with my younger self. 1. Take Out Smaller Student Loans In case you didn’t know, the whole student loan business is a mess. Like most people, I learned the hard way that loading up on student loans is great during college, but paying them off isn’t nearly as fun. … Read more
Mass fear can result in censorship that is just as stifling and oppressive as government bans, history shows. William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is considered by some to be the single greatest story ever written. Hamlet has it all: ghosts, sword fights, suicide, revenge, lust, murder, philosophy, faith, manipulation, and a climactic bloodbath worthy of a … Read more
Target’s decision comes less than a year after Minneapolis suffered some of the worst riots in US history. Target Corporation, the eighth largest retailer in the United States, announced in an email to employees on Thursday that it will be leaving the City Center, its primary downtown Minneapolis location. Company officials cited improved remote work … Read more
Voters will soon learn that the costs imposed by minimum wage hikes do not go away just because they are invisible. . . . Portland House of Pizza has been around for 30 years. Restaurant manager Craig Allare hopes it will be around another 30 years. But now he’s left trying to figure out how … Read more