Roosevelt blasted Hoover for spending and taxing too much

New Zealand along with Australia had the fastest recoveries from the great depression because they cut government spending by 20%. New Zealand even reduced its debt payments by 10%, it defaulted partially.

see https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2020/03/31/australia-rocketed-out-of-the-depression-after-the-premiers-plan-nz-did-too-after-cutting-everything-that-could-be-cut-by-20-in-1931/

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The article containing that quote, Great Myths of The Great Depression has been around since 1998, but it’s always good to put it in front of people repeatedly because there myths don’t die easily.

For example, Old Leftists like Chris Trotter will always bring up the First Labor Government in NZ and FDR’s New Deal in the USA for how they dealt to the Great Depression. What they don’t mention is that Great Britain and Australia had centre-right governments – even with Labour Party involvement occasionally – that did not go for all the industrial nationalisation, new types of welfare support, and most importantly, Keynesian spending. And yet they emerged from the Slump at the same speed as we or the USA did in terms of GDP recovery, dropping unemployment (both Britain and Australia) and so forth.

What’s also not mentioned is that in the USA, after all of…

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June 4, 1738: Birth of George III, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of Hanover

European Royal History

George III (June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from October 25, 1760 until his death in 1820. The two kingdoms were in a personal union under him until the Acts of Union 1800 merged them on January 1, 1801. He then became King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was concurrently Duke and Prince-Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (“Hanover”) in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on October 12, 1814. He was a monarch of the House of Hanover who, unlike his two predecessors, was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.

George was born on June 4, 1738 at Norfolk House in St James’s Square, London. He was a grandson of King George II of Great Britain and the eldest son of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, and…

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BRIAN EASTON:  What do economists do?

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 Steven Levitt, famous for his Freakanomics, shows that being an economist is not just mouthing supply and demand.

  • Brian Easton writes –

Anyone can call themselves an ‘economist’. Many do, despite having no qualifications in economics and hardly any formal training; they often make elementary errors. That is the result of a conscious decision of the economics profession which resists barriers to exit and entry. In contrast other professions have restrictions, often for good reasons; I am glad my medical advisers are not only qualified but also registered. However, claiming to be expert on economics to contribute to the public commentary without any expertise, is confusing to those with more humble understandings.

On the other hand there are those who have a high reputation in the economics profession but who don’t seem to be really economists. Consider Steven Levitt, who has written of himself, ‘I am having trouble…

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Climate Change Fears of Teen Activist Are Empirically Baseless

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A new video from Just Facts:

Contrary to forecasts of doom, crystal-clear science shows that a broad range of outcomes related to climate change have stayed level or improved for the past 30 years.

Rigorous documentation of every fact in this video is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/climate-change-fears-of-teen-activist-are-empirically-baseless/

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Dominic Lawson: Lower tax revenue and higher CO2 emissions: What Starmer’s financially illiterate plan to stop North Sea drilling would really mean for Britain

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By Paul Homewood

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Which is worse: the economic illiteracy or the pretentious boasting?
My question is provoked by the news that the Labour Party proposes, if in government, to grant no new licences for oil and gas production in the North Sea, describing this as part of its plan to turn the UK into ‘a clean energy superpower’.
Does it even know what is meant by the term ‘superpower’? Properly understood, the word describes a nation that can project power on a global scale.
We could, once. Nowadays, only the U.S. — and possibly China — qualify. But perhaps Labour’s policy-makers mean we would be influencing others to go down the same path of abandoning their own fossil-fuel resources.
Reality check: at the 2021 UN climate change summit in Glasgow, the British chair of the event, Alok Sharma, was reduced to tears after the U.S., India and China all refused…

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Labour plans to block new North Sea oil fields could cost Scotland £6bn

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By Paul Homewood

From The Telegraph:

Labour’s plan to block all new North Sea oil and gas fields would cost the Scottish economy the equivalent of around £1,100 per person every year, it has been alleged as a trade union backlash intensified.
The Tories highlighted official estimates that Scotland would be £6 billion poorer per year by 2030 if fossil fuel production was rapidly wound down thanks to the loss of thousands of high-salary jobs.
They warned the move would “devastate” North East Scotland in particular, the hub of the UK’s oil and gas industry, “and hammer every Scot to the tune of £1,100”.
The figures emerged as Unite, Labour’s biggest donor, said the policy risked a “repeat of the devastation” caused by the closure of coal mines in the 1980s.
Sharon Graham, the union’s general secretary, accused Sir Keir Starmer of “grabbing the headlines” rather than “developing a serious…

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Net Zero Zealots are Treating the Public Like Fools

Science Matters

A summary at The Telegraph of David Frost’s recent lecture, in italics with my bolds.

Some of the worst policies ever pursued in this country have been those which nearly all politicians supported at the time. Keeping Britain on the gold standard. Running down our Armed Forces in the 1930s. Demolishing our historic cities and replacing them with concrete. Joining the EU’s Exchange Rate Mechanism. Only a handful of free thinkers questioned these at the time. But when the disastrous results became clear, suddenly few people wanted to defend them.

Now, of course, consensuses can be correct, too. Most people agree that free trade is a good thing. But no one could say that that policy has been unchallenged. Indeed, although it is repeatedly attacked, both intellectual argument and real life keep proving it right.

That is why challenge and argument are so important. When everyone agrees on a…

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Investors Sour on ESG Activism

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Zero Carbon zealots attacking ExxonMobil, here seen without their shareholder disguises.

WSJ reports with a sad tone what is actually good news that investors are pushing back against ESG political correctness. Their article is: ESG Blowback: Exxon, Chevron Investors Reject Climate Measures  Excerpts in italics with my bolds.

An investor-driven climate change push at some of the
world’s largest oil companies has stalled out.

On Wednesday, Exxon Mobil and Chevron’s shareholders struck down a raft of proposals urging the companies to cut greenhouse-gas emissions derived from fuel consumption, put out new reports on climate benchmarks and disclose certain oil-spill risks, among other initiatives.

The votes were abysmal for climate activists. All but two of the 20 shareholder proposals for the two companies garnered less than 25% of investors’ vote, according to preliminary results, with some performing much worse than similar proposals put forward last year.

Among the most…

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Elevated Veteran Suicide is a Myth

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In July 2020, Ron Mark gave $25,000 of your money to the bully and narcissist Aaron Wood and his farcical organisation, ‘No Duff’. Aaron Wood bullies everyone he disagrees with, which is a very wide range of people – No Duff charity founder faces bullying allegations from former soldiers | Stuff.co.nz. He loudly claims that veterans suffer from poor mental health, and need to be treated specially and given lots of taxpayer money.

Journalists like David Fisher swallowed the BS back in 2017:

Our military’s gaps in mental health care for uniformed personnel have been exposed through internal inquiries carried out into six suicides in three years.

A slew of recommendations to improve management of mental health in the military came through Courts of Inquiry into the deaths.

Investigations by theHeraldhave found NZDF suffers the loss of one solider, sailor or air force service member to…

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