Counting Japan’s Quake Dead
A huge tragedy has happened in Japan; the economic and cultural damages to the nation are immense. All that said, there’s a very good reason to be skeptical of death tolls of 10,000 or more that many...
View ArticleThe Right Way to Defend Nuke Power
The tragedy in Japan has led to much criticism of nuclear energy (mostly by the left), attempts to defend it (mostly by the right), and a lot of confused and worried people in the middle. The accident...
View ArticleNuke Critic: U.S. Has 23 Fukushima-Type Reactors
Could a Japanese style nuclear disaster happen here? There are currently 23 GE nuclear plants currently operating in the United States with a design that is identical to the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi...
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Japan’s Damaged Reactors: No Chernobyl
“The first quality for a commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.” - Napoleon While it is...
View ArticleNuke Energy: The Next Casualty of Japan
It’s like watching a Japanese Monster B-Movie: Battered by two epically-scaled natural disasters and now a human-made emergency in the form of an ongoing nuclear crisis, the only thing missing from the...
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Is Red Tape Slowing Japan’s Quake Recovery?
While Japan might have been the one country in the world best prepared to deal with a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, it’s not clear if the country has the political system needed to rebuild. From stories...
View ArticleNuke Energy Support Still Strong
Opposition to expanded reliance on nuclear energy has edged upward among Americans, polling shows, since Tokyo Electric’s Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex started laying very large radioactive eggs...
View ArticleJapan’s Economic Aftershocks
This is Part 1 of a Two-Part Series on what the long-term consequences of the Japanese earthquake will be on America and Japan’s economies. The aftershocks from the earthquake that struck Japan have...
View ArticleWill Japan Crisis Hike Interest Rates?
Japan is the second largest foreign holder of US debt after China. In the aftermath of the recent earthquake it is expected that Japan will likely stop purchasing US debt and instead focus on its own...
View ArticleAre Obama’s Billions Backfiring?
The question worth asking now is pretty simple: will America’s current capital investment program bring about economic growth? A lot of the capital spending going on at this moment is driven by...
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