- You'd Think He's Been Reading My Stuff...

In his NRO piece 'Unsustainable', Mark Steyn swings his verbal rapier through the 'new normal' of the modern economy, and ends up sounding much like me:

But, if they’re “unsustainable,” what happens when they can no longer be sustained? A failure of bond auctions? A downgraded government debt rating? Reduced GDP growth? Total societal collapse? Mad Max on the New Jersey Turnpike?

I don't know Mark at all but his NRO compatriot John Derbyshire, the guy who literally wrote the book on pessimism, has repeatedly called my outlook 'apocalyptic' in our correspondence. (For the record I disagree with that specific label.) So what does it say when Mark Steyn ends up noticing all the same things I've been talking about for the last year?


As always, Steyn is well worth reading, even when he isn't sounding like me:
Unsustainable.