Gregg Easterbrook

2 weeks ago | greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook

Please tap the {{heart}} button, which helps new readers find All Predictions Wrong. During the week the nation’s attention focused on conflict in Los Angeles. Overshadowed was another Golden State story – the apparent collapse of the troubled California highspeed rail project. Your writer loves trains – riding them, watching them. (See below for a trainspotting experience.) I even love model trains. Once I drove one of these locomotives along a General Electric test track.

3 weeks ago | greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook

Eat-your-broccoli week at All Predictions Wrong. The topic is Social Security financing. There must be something the United States Congress is good at! In fact, there is. The United States Congress is really, really good at kicking the can down the road on Social Security collapse. The last time Congress strengthened Social Security financing was 1983. In the forty-two years since, nothing has been done about pending insolvency, which comes in 2033.

4 weeks ago | greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook

Please tap the {{heart}} button, which helps new readers find All Predictions Wrong. The growing field of “positive psychology” – asking not why some become mentally ill but how others achieve well-being – thinks gratitude, forgiveness, optimism and kindness not only are good for society, are good for the person who embraces them. You should work to become a better person because you will benefit. Those around you will too, but that’s a bonus.

1 month ago | greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook

Next month there will be a military parade in Washington D.C. Whether this is a wise use of public funds can be debated, but such parades are not incompatible with democracy. On Bastille Day, France holds a military parade through Paris. In Copenhagen there are two annual military parades -- one to honor the Danish flag, another to salute the throne. According to Defense News, the Washington parade will feature 28 enormous M1 Abrams tanks plus dozens of other armored vehicles.

1 month ago | greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook

Please tap the {{heart}} button, which helps new readers find All Predictions Wrong. Since the Tesla Model S went on sale in 2012, electric cars have dominated auto politics, auto manufacturers’ capital planning and the pages of “buff books” such as Motor Trend. California and the New England states enacted rules to favor electric cars (and electric trucks and buses). Detroit automakers under the first Trump Administration opposed the mandates.