I, working with Cambria Consulting (see below), was involved heavily creating the WSJ’s Top 25 College rankings which are in today’s papers. All questions on the methods, I defer to them. College, […]
Global Competitiveness Report: World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum has released their 2010-2011 rankings of Global Competitiveness, a subject matter so important that it rates Capital Letters to introduce. For each country, the economists from the WEF […]
The Education Bubble
Talk of the—and I mean the—education bubble is everywhere. But nowhere is it more succinctly or beautifully demonstrated than in a picture created by Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute. It […]
Company Stock And Bond Ratings: Skill and Influential Forecasts
If I tell you that it’s not going to rain tomorrow, and it doesn’t, then I have given you a successful forecast. If I repeat this success a few times, then you […]
Obama Approval Rating By Religion
Mormons, according to the pollsters Gallup, are more dissatisfied with Mr Obama than are any other group of folk. And not only that: Mormons’ dissatisfaction is dropping faster than is any other […]
InterAcademy Council Rebukes IPCC: Pachauri To Resign?
You’ll have heard that the InterAcademy Council had a look-see at the inner workings of the IPCC (more on that below). This council, previously unknown to civilization, is, as the IPCC was […]
James Cameron Ducks Global Warming Debate That Never Should Have Been Agreed To
Movie maker James Cameron has called people who don’t believe as strongly as he does that the end is nigh “boneheads”, which, as insults go, isn’t particularly inventive. You would have expected […]
The Imperfectibility of Politics: Voting And Unhappiness
You’re stuck in a motel because of a business meeting. It’s 6 o’ the clock post meridian, and you’re hungry. The town in which you must linger is small and the dining […]
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