A good read with lots of data. I agree until the end, and one commenter addresses this. If things are so good, why change course? Maybe growth for the sake of growth isnt a good thing. It also never attempts to understand why a prosperous society would suddenly stop having children. From Uncharted Territories.

Why Japan Succeeds Despite Stagnation

I remember this well, as will everyone who was there. It was the moment I decided I was done living in Texas. From NPR.

Four years after deadly blackout, doubts remain over reliability of Texas’ power grid

Austin continues to change. And I don’t mean that necessarily in a good way,

Iconic Willie Nelson Mural Demolished in Austin

Another good one from Verite News.

Remembering the Thibodaux massacre, a bloody chapter in U.S. labor history

I am too young to remember the original Krazy Kat comics but I remember some reprints. A short article from Verite News about the creator.

’Krazy Kat’ comic strip creator had roots in New Orleans

Been fascinated by the world’s largest conveyer belt, the Bou Craa in Morocco which transports phosphates over 60 miles and can be seen from space. It seems Texas now has the second largest, the Dune Express which transports sand for fracking over 40 miles. Really. From Texas Monthly.

The World’s Second-Longest Conveyor Belt Is Rolling in West Texas

Just a story I ran across in the local New Orleans newspaper. Could you cram more history, and intetesting history, in a single newspaper article?

This vacant Storyville corner store was once the stage for a New Orleans musical pioneer

I’m fond of the less grammatically, and perhaps logically incorrect version: Nobody know nothing. From The Big Picture. I do think they are being a bit hard on phrenologists though.

“Nobody Knows Anything,” Wall Street Strategist Edition

Novo Nordisk, the Danish drug maker, is now the largest European company by market cap at over $500 billion. This is larger than the GDP of Denmark, the country where the company is based. There is also no reason to think sales of drugs such as Ozemoic and will not continue to grow rapidly.

Ozempic maker now worth more than $500 billion

Yesterday I was idly wondering how wealthy is the US? I mean add up all the cash, stocks, bonds, real estate and other assets. I suppose subtract out debt (but I’m not really sure about that — that would just seem to indicate ownership, not value. But I’m not certain).

A quick google shows a Wiki page that does all the work for me.  Financial position of the United States says about $124 trillion, only less than a decade of GDP, which surprises me. I was also wondering what happens if we just divide it all up among the 330 million people in the country. By my numbers it comes to about $375k per person. Not as much as I thought, but probably more than a lot of places in the world.