The Greens get snared — and played — in a very fishy political deal There was a brief moment when I could casually drop at Manhattan cocktail parties that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was my lawyer. Which wasn’t exactly true, of course, but close enough for cocktail chatter. My neighborhood…

Casino capitalism, bankruptcies, bailouts. Sound familiar? “There is one fundamental lesson we must learn from this experience: electricity is really different from everything else. It cannot be stored, it cannot be seen, and we cannot do without it, which makes opportunities to take advantage of a deregulated market endless. …

When it costs $900 to fill up a Tesla, something is broke. MIT economists Paul Joskow and Richard Schmalensee recollect their surprise when they were approached by two economists of the then-new Reagan administration in 1981. Joskow and Schmalensee shouldn’t have been all that surprised. Deregulation was is the air…

It does, but reconciliation will be hard after a 50-year war. — “Joe Biden calls for 100 percent clean electricity by 2035,” the Washington Post wrote last July. Paying close attention to political statements is usually a waste of time, but words matter in headlines. The significant word in that one was “clean.” The word that was not there was “renewable.” This…

With the state looking at spending billions on fire, it’s worth a shot. We’ve seen the photos of the apocalyptic skies — and the Twitter jokes:

Is the epidemic is turning down on its own accord? The first chart we need to explain is this one:

Last post, I was speculating. Now with real data! At the bottom of my last post about a December 2019 Covid case in Portland, Oregon, I attempted to reconcile two facts: ● there are a growing number of reports from people who have tested antibody positive who are convinced they…

Blood antibody testing is telling some uncomfortable Origin Stories. Antonio wanted to know if the guy was a nut case. Antonio Regalado, of MIT Technology Journal, had emailed me an informal five-page document entitled “Community Serum Antibody Testing For Past COVID-19 Infection.” He said he had been making the rounds…

We rate the rapid SARS-CoV-2 blood antibody tests. Good news for the followers of this blog: I have declared a Zombie alert. For some time, the media narrative that SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing is “dangerous,” “inaccurate,” and so on has displayed all clinical symptoms of being a Zombie. This media narrative…