Imagine the gall of a duly-elected member of the United States Senate reserving the right to vote anything other than ‘Yes.’ Oh, the temerity! Oh, the audacity! Oh, the humanity!More
Category Archives: Economics
Inflation, Inheritance, and the Parable of the Prodigal Son
The prodigal son too was short-sighted. Asking his father for his share of the inheritance now, he then proceeded to spend it on lavish parties. America is like that.More
Biden Asking OPEC and China to Mitigate Rising Energy Costs
If President Biden and the Democrats don’t get their act together on this, they are going to get their clocks cleaned in the midterm elections next year.More
Al Gore Wants to Save the Planet From Us, Not For Us
Let me be as short and clear as I can manage: Al Gore and the folks at the Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland want to save the planet from us, not for us.More
Nearly A Decade Working in the Oil and Gas Industry
The highest wages and the greatest uncertainty are in drilling, but the guys who operate the wells and pipelines will still have jobs when drilling periodically tapers off.More
Labor Day Weekend
Labor Day Weekend 2021 caps off my first week back after quarantine for my wife’s positive COVID test. And I find myself pensive about nearly a decade in the Oil & Gas industry.More
Unpacking the Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack
The Colonial Pipeline – a critical piece of American infrastructure – has suffered the most significant cyberattack in our country’s history, and its being taken out of commission leaves the East Coast without a reliable and efficient supply of gasoline for the foreseeable future. Experts say the pipeline should be back online by the end…More
Bitcoin Mining and Bandwagons
My brother Bryce came over yesterday afternoon and traded me two 140mm computer fans for an RTX 2070 that had some child’s water inadvertently spilt on it. While he was here, he also set me up to mine Bitcoin on my RTX 3070 GPU. So now I have run NiceHash all the past night, on…More
GameStop, Reddit, and Robinhood
Curious what all the fuss is about with GameStop, Reddit, and Robinhood? Here is my quasi-insider small trader perspective. Spoiler alert: there are two sets of rules. One for the big players, and one for the little guys. Yet as Proverbs 20:10 tells us, “Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to…More
Stimulating Pork and Working Vacations
Summary The United States Congress finally passed another COVID stimulus package. Its stated goal is to help the American people negatively impacted by the effects of the novel coronavirus. Yet when a financial aid package totals nearly $1 trillion, we whose families and friends have been hurting financially this year because of the government-mandated throttling…More