Crony capitalists wallowing in wind and solar subsidies and their ideologue enablers make sure the buck always stops with you. The cost of those subsidies is not only endless, it is simply staggering. In Australia the combined figure for subsidies to wind and solar is now in excess of $15 billion annually, and with the […]
Loser Always Pays Staggering Hidden Cost of Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
Loser Always Pays Staggering Hidden Cost of Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
28 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
Quotation of the Day…
28 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics Tags: competition law
Tweet… is from page 422 of Robert Bork’s masterful 1978 book, The Antitrust Paradox: Competition in open markets reflects the ideal of equality of opportunity, while antitrust’s longstanding and growing concern for the small and less efficient reflects a preference for equality of outcome. Outcomes are not equal in open competition, hence the pressure for…
Quotation of the Day…
More Good Results from Argentina
28 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, growth disasters, income redistribution, labour economics, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, monetary economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: Argentina
The most important election of 2023 took place in Argentina, where that nation’s voters elected the libertarian candidate, Javier Milei, as their new president. I discussed the outlook for Milei’s agenda on a recent appearance of the Schilling Show. Here’s a brief excerpt. As you can see, I’m worried that Milei faces enormous obstacles. Argentina […]
More Good Results from Argentina
Pontifical Pronouncements: A Case Study in Climate Change Dogma
28 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
…the pontifical leap to decry climate skepticism smacks of misplaced priorities of fanaticism.
Pontifical Pronouncements: A Case Study in Climate Change Dogma
“Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live”: Columbia Student Leader Under Fire for Violent Rhetoric
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
A student leader at Columbia is under fire this week over a newly-resurfaced video declaring that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” Khymani James has been one of the leaders at the anti-Israel encampment at Columbia and featured prominently by media outlets. He is reportedly the spokesperson for Columbia’s anti-Israel student group Apartheid Divest James embodies the type of radical […]
“Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live”: Columbia Student Leader Under Fire for Violent Rhetoric
The Battle of Doiran – Turmoil In The French Army I THE GREAT WAR Week 144
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Claim: Global Warming is Spreading Malaria and Dengue to Europe
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: climate alarmism
Famous British playwright William Shakespeare wrote about endemic Malaria in Britain in the 1500s. Malaria was the scourge of Scandinavia and Russia right up until the 20th century. But this has not stopped greens falsely claiming Malaria is a disease of warm climates.
Claim: Global Warming is Spreading Malaria and Dengue to Europe
Luxon gets out his butcher’s knife – briefly
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
Peter Dunne writes – The great nineteenth British Prime Minister, William Gladstone, once observed that “the first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher.” When a later British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, sacked a third of his Cabinet in July 1962, in what became known as the Night of the Long […]
Luxon gets out his butcher’s knife – briefly
18-year-old Queen Elizabeth serving in the Second World War
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Wind Power Scarcity Data Analysis
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood One of my regular contacts has analysed wind power data over the last five years, using the official half-hourly National Grid data. The analysis highlights just how intermittent wind power can be: https://www.nationalgrideso.com/data-portal/historic-generation-mix/historic_gb_generation_mix
Wind Power Scarcity Data Analysis
The @billmckibben Integrity Test
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Almost without fail every time there is some oddball or unique weather event, climate alarmists immediately rushed to blame it on climate change whether or not there’s any facts to support it. Such is the case with Uber alarmist bill McKinnon founder of 350 dot org as well as “third act” and a supporter of […]
The @billmckibben Integrity Test
Grand Solar Power Rush Ends With Panels Being Used As Garden Fencing
26 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power
A decade from now, the wind and solar transition will resemble Alice’s trip down the rabbit hole – a place inhabited by lunatics and where nothing makes sense. Massive and seemingly endless subsidies have perverted the ordinary signals that free and open markets deliver. In Europe, the grand wind and solar rush has come to […]
Grand Solar Power Rush Ends With Panels Being Used As Garden Fencing
Why Socialism Won’t Die
26 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: economics of socialism
“to employ a hundred people is… exploitation, but to command the same number [is] honorable.” That’s an actual book by the way, explaining that although communism has failed in the past across different nations, races and cultures, it might work in the future where machines can create anything we want. Think Star Trek’s replicator technology. […]
Why Socialism Won’t Die
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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