Miscellaneous

A collection of extraneous thoughts and musings that don't clearly fit into a single category.

Covid19: Where I am watching the numbers? - Updated Daily(Latest 4/27/2020)

For all the focus on Covid19 in Europe and the United States, it is the rise in cases and deaths outside of those continents which poses a longer-term threat to a quick economic recovery

April 11, 2020
May 1, 2020
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Daniel Berman

Let's Talk Oil Prices: Rebutting Myths about the Price Collaspe

There is no grand Saudi "conspiracy" against shale production behind the fall in oil prices. Ultimately, the commodity collaspe is a byproduct of the Chinese slowdown along with short-sighted decisions by producers.

December 22, 2014
July 1, 2016
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Daniel Berman

Some More Thoughts on Young Voters, Inequality, and the Republican Party

Millenial frustration with the job market is not merely a product of entitlement. With employers completing the hiring process ever earlier, many young Americans have already "missed the boat" by age 23

May 7, 2014
July 4, 2016
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Daniel Berman

The Conservative Case for Breaking Up Big Tech

Conservatism should see antitrust not as about fear of capitalism but as fear of power. Right now, big tech firms have more in common with governments than free enterprise.

September 21, 2022
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Daniel Berman

Reflections on Orlando: A Turning Point in LGBT Politics in America?

For many members of the LGBT community, "gay" life has been able to exist in a vacuum separate from the politics and values of the wider world. At Pulse, that bubble was shattered with major implications for the future.

May 2, 2022
Written by 
Daniel Berman