Bill James

'Green Shoots' Not a Phrase Used by Those Who Know

There can be an economic boom if we repeat the lesson learned from de-monopolize communications infrastructure in 1984, the Internet and cell networks.

Mobilizing to fight World War I, bureaucracies were established to manage communications, transportation and power generation infrastructure. They froze in time the great innovations of at their founding of Bell, Ford, Edison and the Wright Brothers. In 1984 innovation was allowed in communications infrastructure; power generation and transportation infrastructure remain protected by monopolies.

Why do we pay to move a ton to move a person in repetitive, congested urban transport? Highways that kill 43,000 people a year are not the ultimate pinnacle of our engineering skills. Long-haul freight rail moves cargo 97.2 times more efficiently than we move cargo and people in cities. Morgantown's Personal Rapid Transit network has delivered 110 million injury-free passenger miles.

If we want a stronger economy we need to break the design monopolies over infrastructure.

Global Market Roundup: Will the Bailout Work?

End government control over rights of way, implement Performance Standards for power generation and transportation and in 6 years. seekingalpha.com/artic...

Building the Physical-Internet will likely working family disposable income can increase by $3,200 per year. www.jpods.com/ar_Burde...

I.O.U.S.A.

We can start our way out of this by changing the lifeblood of our economy from oil to ingenuity. Oil is finite. The more we depend on ingenuity, the more ingenuity we get. Here are 4 links:
1. PRT to preempt oil in urban transport: seekingalpha.com/artic...
2. End Urban Planning, we should have learned from the Soviets that planned economies are brittle facing changing circumstances: economiclifeboat.com/w...
3. Plans versus Performance Standards: seekingalpha.com/artic...
4. Wrong problem, we have a planning not an energy problem: www.earthtoys.com/emag...