The dishonest media is why we do these monthly fact checks.
Climate Fact Check: June 2024 Edition
Climate Fact Check: June 2024 Edition
07 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
The Death Watch has been ticking for a while.
07 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
The Democrat Party hasn’t won the White vote in a presidential election for 60 years. The polls for “President” Biden right now are just brutal, especially in the wake of The Debate – which may prove me wrong in my holding that such things have little impact, although I’ll only acknowledge that if Biden is […]
The Death Watch has been ticking for a while.
Farage Attacks Net Zero With Facts
07 Jul 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood Finally we’ve got some common sense in Parliament! . https://twitter.com/i/status/1807687079918256358
Farage Attacks Net Zero With Facts
Climate-Skeptic Reform Party Takes A Third Of The Tory Vote In The UK Election
07 Jul 2024 1 Comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics
After 14 years of net-zero nonsense from the Conservative Party, Nigel Farage’s climate-skeptic Reform Party has taken away a third of the Conservative vote.
Climate-Skeptic Reform Party Takes A Third Of The Tory Vote In The UK Election
Turmoil In The Reichstag – The Kerensky Offensive I THE GREAT WAR Week 154
06 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
The Ghahraman judgment
06 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment
The 60 paragraph decision by Judge Jelas is an interesting read. Some extracts:
The Ghahraman judgment
The Rise & Fall of the Harrier Jump Jet
06 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace
Finally a great housing package
05 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
Chris Bishop has announced changes to housing laws which will make a huge difference to housing affordability. Almost every expert has said that to reduce pressure on house prices you need to both build up and build out. The NIMBYs oppose building up and the Greenies opposes building out. Phil Rayford in 2017 had some […]
Finally a great housing package
The King, Keir Starmer, and the new Labour government
05 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics Tags: British constitutional law
The Labour Party has won a resounding victory over the Conservatives with exit polls suggesting that they could win as many as 405 seats. While results are still coming in, Rishi Sunak has already conceded to Sir Keir Starmer. So what comes next? Sunak will likely go to the Palace sometime on Friday to tender […]
The King, Keir Starmer, and the new Labour government
Reporters Blame “Right-Wing Media” for Their Failure to Disclose Biden’s Infirmity
05 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: 2024 presidential election, free speech, media bias, political correctness, regressive left
The media is sorry . . . sort of. After the shocking appearance of President Joe Biden in the presidential debate, the public has turned its attention to the press which has, again, buried a major scandal for years. According to CNN, the reporters at the White House are really, really sorry but explained that […]
Reporters Blame “Right-Wing Media” for Their Failure to Disclose Biden’s Infirmity
Week 305 – Operation Olympic – 100,000 US casualties in 60 days? – WW2 -…
04 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Chess Openings: Learn to Play the Pirc Defense – Crushing the Byrne Vari…
04 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in chess
Pharmac’s free ride won’t last forever
04 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, health economics Tags: drug lags
Americans contribute disproportionately toward the pharmaceutical innovation from which we all benefit, but their tolerance for subsidising the rest of the world is on the wane… Eric Crampton writes If philosophy students remember one thing from their lectures on Immanuel Kant in undergraduate classes, it is his categorical imperative. It’s easy to remember […]
Pharmac’s free ride won’t last forever
On degrowth
04 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic growth, macroeconomics Tags: The Great Enrichment
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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