“There are no Soviet Prisoners of War, only Traitors” – WW2 – 104 – August 22, 1941
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
How more accurate data help to explain the relatively large fall in UK GDP
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There is a lively debate among economists about the way in which UK statisticians are estimating the impact of the pandemic on the output of the public sector. This is a relatively arcane topic and the mainstream media can be forgiven for not yet covering it. But it is important, not least because other countries do things differently.
If everyone used the same method, the reported fall in UK GDP in the first half of the year would actually be similar to that in France and Italy, rather than the outlier that the headlines suggest. On the other hand, the UK method, which is more accurate, will also show an even stronger recovery in the third quarter and beyond.
These issues have also led to some confusion about an alternative measure of inflation known as the implied GDP deflator, prompting the economist Shaun Richards to ask “Has nobody else…
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We now have an official @greenpeaceusa estimate of cost of doing nothing about #globalwarming #climateemergency! @AOC @BernieSanders @JoeBiden @Greens @NZGreens
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in applied welfare economics, business cycles, economic growth, energy economics, environmental economics, global financial crisis (GFC), global warming, great recession, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmists, The fatal conceit
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The Climate Policies to Focus On with Bjorn Lomborg (Lessons from Hoover Boot Camp) | Ch 3
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists
Why didn’t the USSR Annex Finland
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Cold War, World War I, World War II
Top 10 Horrifying Facts about the ROMAN LEGIONS
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Roman empire
August 1920 – Our World 100 Years Ago I THE GREAT WAR
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in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: World War I
PLAYING WITH FIRE: THE 1968 ELECTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS by Lawrence O’Donnell
22 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
(The 1968 Democratic Convention demonstration on the streets of Chicago)
The publication of MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell’s new book, PLAYING WITH FIRE: THE 1968 ELECTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS comes at a propitious moment in American political history. According to O’Donnell 1968 is the watershed year that set our current politics in motion – a partisan conflict were by ideology and party affiliation has become more important than the needs of the American people. O’Donnell argues that before 1968 the terms conservative democrat and liberal republican existed, today they are pretty much extinct. By examining 1968 we can discern the origin of this political schism and conjecture on how it affects the United States domestically and in the realm of foreign policy. The comparison between our current politics and 1968 is fascinating as Donald Trump seems to have adopted the populist message of Alabama governor George C. Wallace…
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