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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in the New York Post on the closed door deposition of Hunter Biden. After years of conflicting and evasive responses on these corruption allegations, Hunter Biden is now faced with a moment of truth.
A Moment of Truth: Five Questions for Hunter Biden
29 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted review of the presidential immunity question, but set an expedited schedule for the review of the question with oral argument scheduled for April. Former president Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that “Legal Scholars are extremely thankful for the Supreme Court’s Decision today to take up Presidential Immunity.” As I […]
“Craven” and “Insurrectionists”: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Other Denounce the Supreme Court for Granting Review of Presidential Immunity
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in economic history, environmental economics, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: ageing society, economics of fertility, economics of immigration, population bust
The Congressional Budget Office has published The Demographic Outlook: 2024 to 2054 (January 2024), which offers some recent history and projections of how the US population is evolving. Here are three snapshots: The Role of Immigration in Total US Population Growth The black line shows projected US population growth since 2004, with firm data up…
Three Snapshots of Where US Population is Headed
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
I’ve referred to “creative destruction” as the “best and worst part of capitalism.” This short video from the Fraser Institute is a good tutorial on the topic. The core message is that entrepreneurs improve our lives by coming up with new ideas, new technologies, and new products. That’s the good news. The bad news is […]
The Economics of Creative Destruction, Part II
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Of all the problems with electric cars, perhaps the least expected was the revelation that some home charging points provide a potential point of weakness for malign foreign powers to interfere with our National Grid. Last week, the Office for Product Safety […]
The UK is much closer to blackouts than anyone dares to admit
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in economics of bureaucracy, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking
The Productivity Commission will cease operations tomorrow, to make way for the new Ministry for Regulation. On the same day, the Waitangi Tribunal will begin an urgent inquiry into the government’s proposal to disestablish the Māori Health Authority. But legislation passed under urgency by Parliament will result in the authority being shut down by the end […]
Productivity Commission gone tomorrow, Māori Health Authority gone in June – so what should we do with the Waitangi Tribunal?
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