Electric Vehicles: Cry Me a Rivian
The week of November 25, 2024: Rivian’s billions, antitrust, climate policy, DEI, and much, much more.
Today's Conservative News
Andrew Stuttaford
From Growler to Gib: Jaguar Struck by Bud Lightning
The week of November 18, 2024: Jaguar’s “Drunken Dream,” the debt, antitrust, labor, and more.
The EU: A Prescription for More Stagnation (or Worse)
The week of October 28, 2024: The EU’s “doctor” writes, labor, tax, electric vehicles, and more.
Space and Censorship: The EU’s Struggle with Musk
The week of October 14, 2024: Brussels vs. Musk, housing, labor, healthcare, and electric vehicles.
Argentina: It’s Still Milei Time
Belatedly, the week of October 7, 2024: Milei presses on, Kamala Harris’ ‘experimentation,’ tariffs, housing, and much, much more.
Electric Vehicles: The EU takes on China (Nervously)
The week of September 30, 2024: The EU’s EV tariffs, the dock strike, the Fed, climate policy, and much, much more.
AI: What AI’s Aspiring Regulators Really Want
The week of September 23, 2024: The fight over AI, tariffs, the debt, federal mandates, and much, much more.
Electric Vehicles: Eurotrashed
The week of September 16, 2024: Africa, Rent Control, Canada and more.
German Reparations: Far From a ‘Carthaginian Peace’
The week of September 2, 2024: The economics of Weimar, debanking, Nippon Steel, price controls, Argentina, and more.
Gouging: Letting Prices Work
The week of August 19, 2024: The Good Gouger, fiscal policy, China, and much, much, more.
Price Controls: Politics and Policy
The week of August 12, 2024: Prices (and their uses), trade, industrial policy, Argentina, and much, much, more.
ESG/Energy: Coal’s Rich Seam
The week of August 5, 2024: Coal’s persistence, (“brutal”) capitalism, trade, antitrust, and much, much more.
Argentina’s Inflation Fight: The End of the Beginning?
The week of July 22, 2024: Javier Milei’s hyperinflation win, tax, labor, planning, The Olympics, and much, much more.
Rent Control: Incentives & Signals
The week of July 15, 2024: Rent control (again), student loans, climate, economic policy, and much, much more.
Doughnuts and Degrowth
The week of July 1, 2024: Degrowth, still growing, the administrative state, France, labor, antitrust, and much, much more.
ESG: Not Dead Yet
The week of June 24, 2024: ESG’s resilient ecosystem, free markets, tax, net zero, and much, much more.
Electric Vehicles: Fisker Fails (Again)
The week of June 17, 2024: An EV saga, tax, space, spending, and much, much more.
Degrowth and De-Democracy
The week of June 10, 2024: Not letting a polycrisis go to waste, energy, inflation, Argentina, and much, much more.
Net Zero: The ‘Race’ to a New Command Economy
The week of May 13, 2024: A new more intrusive command economy, tariffs, privatization, electric vehicles, and much more.
ESG/Stakeholder Capitalism: Letting Oil Companies be Oil Companies (or not)
The week of April 29, 2024: Shell & Equinor, labor, Japan, energy, and much, much more.
A Warning Light Flashing Gold
The week of April 15, 2024: The surging gold price, antitrust, pay in the WNBA, bees, and much, much more.
Inflation and Interest Rates: Between Scylla and Charybdis
The week of April 8, 2024: The Fed’s dilemma(s), deindustrialization, student loans, and much, much more.
Electric Vehicles: Cellphones, EVs, and Pete Buttigieg
The week of April 1, 2024: EVs & cell phones (sort of) compared, sports stadiums, antitrust, and much, much more.
ESG’s Inconvenient Truths and Green Energy’s Inconvenient Moment
The week of September 20: ESG, energy, Carter vs. Biden and much, much more.
The Gathering Storm (But with Not Enough Wind): Europe’s Energy Mess Gets Worse — a Lesson the U.S. Looks Set to Ignore
The week of September 13: climate policy and Europe’s energy crunch, inflation, taxation, and much more.
Winter Is Coming: Europe’s (Natural) Gas Crunch (and in Due Course, Ours)
The week of September 6, 2021: Soaring natural-gas prices, woke capital, employment, and much more
Ida’s Reminder That Climate Policy Should Be Built on Resilience, Not Delusion
The week of August 30, 2021: climate change, landlords, stakeholder capitalism, and much more.
The Taliban’s Economic Inheritance
The week of August 16, 2021: the ‘Islamic Emirate’s’ economic prospects, inflation, cryptocurrency, and more.
The Damage Won’t Be Contained to Afghanistan
The coming cost of a ruined reputation
When Is a Contract Not a Contract? When It’s a Lease
The Week of August 2, 2021: The CDC’s eviction moratorium, big tech, tax, and much, much more.