Starmer risks losing support for fighting climate change
14 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood The general election is now dominating our national life, generating wall-to-wall media coverage. But while dramas such as Nigel Farage’s decision to stand in Clacton, Rishi Sunak’s D-Day blunder and the first two television debates dominate the headlines, far less noticed was Labour’s energy policy announcement. Party leader Sir […]
Starmer risks losing support for fighting climate change
Rivers in India
14 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: India, water pollution
Does Parliament also need to define taonga?
14 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: constitutional law
Piers Seed writes about the current definition of taonga: According to the Waitangi Tribunal the definition of taonga is: “Treasures’: ‘taonga’. As submissions to the Waitangi Tribunal concerning the Māori language have made clear, ‘taonga’ refers to all dimensions of a tribal group’s estate, material and non-material – heirlooms and wahi tapu (sacred places), ancestral lore…
Does Parliament also need to define taonga?
Hunter Comes Up A Donut Short of a Defense in Delaware
13 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in the New York Post on the conviction of Hunter Biden in Delaware and how his nullification strategy may have backfired. As discussed below, empathy can turn into insult when jurors are given patently implausible theories by the defense. Hunter finally found a group of people who were unwilling to see […]
Hunter Comes Up A Donut Short of a Defense in Delaware
Windless nights make net zero impossible
13 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
It is very simple. The cost of storing electricity is so huge it makes getting through a single windless night under a net zero wind, solar, and storage plan economically impossible.
Windless nights make net zero impossible
Boys are faster than women
13 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, politics - USA, sports economics Tags: free speech, gender gap, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
New Report Reveals Massive Scale of Green Billionaire Funding of ‘Climate Emergency’ Reporting in Mainstream Media
13 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
…there might be some concern that another science-lite campaign could eventually lead to more grovelling public accountability, laughable scorn and diminished credibility.
New Report Reveals Massive Scale of Green Billionaire Funding of ‘Climate Emergency’ Reporting in Mainstream Media
International Comparisons with a PPP Metric
13 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic growth, economic history, growth miracles, macroeconomics Tags: China, India
If you are someone from a high-income country, or even just a high-income city, and you travel to other places, you are familiar with finding that, at least sometimes, many items are considerably cheaper in the low-income country: food and meals, entertainment and even health care. As a result, $100 of buying power in the…
International Comparisons with a PPP Metric
How Jacinda Ardern left New Zealand on the brink of blackouts
13 Jun 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: British politics
By Paul Homewood Sir Keir Starmer is standing by a pledge to ban new drilling in the North Sea, despite New Zealand abandoning a similar policy amid blackout fears. Labour’s manifesto, due out on Thursday, will feature a pledge to block all new licensing for oil and gas as one of its key […]
How Jacinda Ardern left New Zealand on the brink of blackouts
Alien pronouns
12 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Caught out! The NZ Initiative’s Article in the Herald Blaming the RBNZ for our Rip-Off Big Banks is Contradicted by its Own Expert Witness. (Willis Beware).
12 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, financial economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
When it comes to the question of how best to avoid a banking collapse and multi-billion dollar bailout that can drag a whole nation into depression, the best solution, according to Chicago-Stanford economist, John Cochrane, is to require banks to set aside a fraction of their own funds as reserves to cover losses they may…
Caught out! The NZ Initiative’s Article in the Herald Blaming the RBNZ for our Rip-Off Big Banks is Contradicted by its Own Expert Witness. (Willis Beware).
“I Take Responsibility”: Pelosi Admits Fault for the Lack of Security Precautions on January 6th
12 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
For years, some of us have asked why the Capitol was so poorly prepared for the January 6th riot. As part of the coverage on that day, I remarked at the start of the protests that I had never seen the Capitol so thinly protected for a major demonstration. Some paths to the Capitol were…
“I Take Responsibility”: Pelosi Admits Fault for the Lack of Security Precautions on January 6th
Is Paris About to Leave the Paris Agreement?
12 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: France
President Macron has called a snap parliamentary election after devastating losses to right wing challenger Marine Le Penn in recent European elections.
Is Paris About to Leave the Paris Agreement?
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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