The American Thinker: on fire
If you haven’t read American Thinker editor Thomas Lifson’s great piece on the the Spruce Goose of our time, the Airbus A380, you ought to. It is an outstanding analysis of a subject we are somewhat expert on. You’d think that in business, the world of numbers and dollars and cents, rational analysis would drive decisions. All too often it is hubris and folly. The world was never clamoring for a jet far larger than the Boeing B747, whose sales have been lagging for years, but Airbus decided to make one twice as large as some B747 models. Using numbers to justify bragging rights is usually a bad decision.
A second American Thinker article made our blood boil. It seems that Paul Belien of the Brussels Journal has been under police interrogation for home-schooling his children. Belien doesn’t meet all the requirements of the commissars, which is ridiculous. James Lewis notes in the AT piece that both Belien and his wife are multi-lingual PhD’s. And this is friggin’ Belgium — you don’t have to go to a Communist or sharia country to get all the benefits of totalitarianism. They are available in the EU. Scary stuff.
Thomas Lifson has The American Thinker going from strength to strength.
June 18th, 2006 at 7:25 am
Jack, you used to occaisionally opine on oil prices, XOM stock, etc., especially in the wake of last year’s hurricanes. Here is one reader hoping that you feel inspiration to write in more detail about Boeing, Airbus, the folly of the A380, the overwhelming success of the 777 & 787 versus the four engined A340 & A350, blah, blah, blah. To me (and the stock market) it looks like a huge resurgence for a great American company.