Archive for the ‘Subsidies’ Category

Tesla: 1999 Revisited

This is a post I started to write last week, got sidetracked and now it seems a bit timely once more. I’m talking about Tesla, the electric car manufacturer, and frankly I don’t see what the hype is about, why the stock has gone through the roof and why anyone would buy into the secondary […]

Subsidizing The White House’s Solar Panels

Mike Mandel commenting on the Obama administration’s decision to install solar panels on the White House posted this chart(click for larger view). He noted that there was a lack of logic in the move and then went on to suggest a rationale for the move: So the government is borrowing this money from overseas, basically,  to increase […]