Couldn’t Help But Notice (030907)
Technically it’s not even a surge yet, but there are interesting signs that whatever you want to call it, it’s working.
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Mice as “beef” — and the world yawns.
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The growing workforce — It’s not about what you’d expect.
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A partial move towards business sanity by a struggling Ford — They’ll need to do more of this and be more visible about it for the desired effect, which would be to take sales out of the ditch. Update, Mar. 14 — Obviously it appears that sanity was too much to hope for, so it’s back to slow-but-sure suicide watch.
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Gosh, does this mean that “the world” doesn’t really hate us, as we’ve been told ad nauseam for at least the past 6 years?
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NixGuy has been doing more with Airbus than I have (here, here, and here most recently), but I stumbled across this stunner (in bold) from last Friday:
UPS Inc. (UPS), the world’s largest shipping carrier, said Friday it will cancel its order for 10 Airbus A380 freighters, following delivery delays. The decision will leave the European aircraft manufacturer with no firm orders for its jumbo freighter.
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Ronald Bailey at Reason’s Hit and Run (HT Instapundit) thinks the Walter Reed Hospital situation foretells what the healthcare system would look like if nationalized health care ever takes hold here. He’s probably right, and it would not be pretty.
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From the Congressional B******t Budget Office earlier this week:
President Bush’s proposed federal budget is based on too-rosy revenue estimates and would probably not produce its advertised surplus ….. in five years, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.
As you may know, I think they’re right, except that it won’t take five years — as long as nobody screws it up, it will be more like three.
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Mini-update to this item from Monday — This AP item at MSNBC claims that banks are lightening up on their more extreme credit-card and lending practices because of the perceived threat of harsh legislation (not to mention hearings that took place this week). Can’t prove it, of course, and no one will ever acknowledge it, but it’s too coincidental to ignore. Update, Mar. 10: From Jeff at Credit/Debt Recovery — “This is the kind of treatment the creditors deserve; this is what should have happened right after bankruptcy reform was passed.”
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Glad THAT problem is solved — Why didn’t I think of this: “Postal Service fixes long waits by removing clocks”
