Holman Jenkins on All Topics
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“Loading on car makers more and more responsibility to protect us from ourselves is a solution with diminishing returns.”
“The FCC needs to see a bigger picture.”
“Mr. Obama says he's content to be a single-term president. The soonest, then, we can hope for real progress on health care is three years.”
“The system, however it works, still is designed to interpret a foot on the gas as instruction to 'Go.'”
“I wonder what Hank Paulson does for the dry heaves?”
“The real danger came from incentives that Washington scattered far and wide to much smaller, harder-to-see players that came back to haunt us all.”
“An Apple that rolls out increasingly junky devices merely to lock more and more customers into the iTunes-App Store mall is one gloomy possibility.”
“GM, Ford, Volkswagen and other competitors may be indulging a certain satisfaction right now at Toyota's troubles. Perhaps they shouldn't.”
“A program delivering ice-cream sandwiches to Eskimos is a good one by Obama standards as long as Eskimos are receiving ice-cream sandwiches.”
“In an age when cars are controlled by computers and software code, are claims of unintended acceleration ever possible to refute?”
“A lot of considerations got pushed aside in the rush to rescue AIG, which we still suspect was done to stave off a financial crisis. But rushed work is sloppy work.”
“Google may deserve every salaam for its willingness to go to war with China over its users' data privacy, but it has been careful not to advertise that that's what the showdown is really about.”
“Obama and Geithner are sticking it to bank shareholders simply because it's safe to do so (safer, say, than threatening the Chinese with losses on their massive holdings of Fannie and Freddie IOUs).”
“How this plan to turn a Franco-Japanese auto company into a ward of the U.S. taxpayer plays out will be interesting to watch.”
“Do bankers deserve it? Of course not. Do you deserve your good looks, good health or good luck in choice of parents and/or country you were born in?”