Weekend 156.0

(1) 12 Awesome Airplane Paint Jobs

(2) How to Turn a Recession into a Depression

(2a) “As hostility to businessmen grows, politicians tax them more heavily, while debasing and inflating the currency to maintain an illusion of prosperity. Then, when these policies cause rising price levels, a deluded populace demands price controls, which ambitious politicians are all too ready to impose.

Every nation has developed and flowered – with art, music, and the other ornaments and means of civilization – only on the basis of flourishing business trade, commerce. This was true of the Phoenicians, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Egypt, the Chinese civilization, the Byzantine Empire, Venice, Florence, Spain, England, France, Germany and the United States. Go through the history of each and you’ll find in its origins that period in which commerce and finance were highly regarded and relatively free in a developing civilization.” – V. Orval Watts

(3) Honda Icon Museum

(4) 23 years in the making for just one hour off the travel time: Drilling on world’s longest tunnel stretching 35.4 miles under the Alps is completed

(4a) Boondoggle in the Motor City – Detroit’s Train to Nowhere

(4b) Flashy Projects Have Not Helped Detroit

(4c) Where Infrastructure Estimates Come Up Short

(5) Yale Center for British Art

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