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Want to make a small fortune in the offshore wind industry? Then start with a large one. In the absence of endless subsidies and guaranteed, fixed-price contracts (set at ludicrously high prices), the purported economic case for wind power never, ever stacks up. And the numbers are far worse out at sea. Take a machine […]
Not For Profit: Offshore Wind Power Projects Wiped Out By Rising Costs
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This morning, I will testify in the first hearing of the impeachment inquiry of President Joseph Biden. The hearing of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability will start at 10am in Room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building. My written testimony is below.
Turley Testifies at Biden Impeachment Hearing
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National’s “fiscal plan” came out this afternoon. To no one’s great surprise I guess, we didn’t learn much from it. The big National numbers had been in the Back Pocket Boost package a few weeks ago, combined with the statement from Willis last week that National would get back to an OBEGAL surplus no sooner […]
0.7 per cent of GDP
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Yesterday I wrote a post about how two anthropological societies decided to cancel a panel on the biology of sex and gender because they considered it “harmful” to the listeners. As I wrote: I’m probably late to the party, but the latest gossip about the Authoritarian Left involves the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the…
More on the canceled anthropology panel on sex: an anthropology society defends deplatforming the panel as transphobic
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Chris Trotter writes – IN THE CURRENT MIX of electoral alternatives, there is no longer a credible left-wing party. Not when “a credible left-wing party” is defined as: a class-oriented, mass-based, democratically-structured political organisation; dedicated to promoting ideas sharply critical of laissez-faire capitalism; and committed to advancing democratic, egalitarian and emancipatory ideals across the whole […]
CHRIS TROTTER: Losing the Left
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in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell, unemployment Tags: racial discrimination, sex discrimination
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Prosperity via subsidies, making the energy that powers economies more scarce and/or more expensive, always sounded like a fantasy. – – – When she took to the floor to give her State of the Union speech on 13 September, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen largely stood by the script, says Phys.org. Describing her […]
Idea of green growth losing traction among climate policy researchers, survey of nearly 800 academics reveals
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By Paul Homewood London, 28 September – A new paper from the Net Zero Watch demonstrates conclusively renewables increase electricity bills — indeed, it is almost impossible that adding a new windfarm to the grid would ever reduce consumer prices. The author of the paper, Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford, outlines a […]
The six ways renewables increase electricity bills
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By Paul Homewood Euan Mearns sent me this letter he has had published in his local newspaper: He tells me there is a serious error in the print version, but the correct version is below:
Public need to be able to scrutinise the true costs on net-zero energy policy–Euan Mearns
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I’m probably late to the party, but the latest gossip about the Authoritarian Left involves the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) deciding to deplatform an entire symposium on sex and gender in anthropology—all because of the claim that it could cause mental “harm”to some people. Thyere are three letters involved, […]
More mishigas: Two anthropology societies cancel an accepted symposium on sex and gender because it would “harm” their members
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in industrial organisation, law and economics Tags: competition and monopoly, competition law
The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general have sued Amazon.com, as the FTC press release says, “alleging that the online retail and technology company is a monopolist that uses a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power.” The FTC complaint filed with the US District Court for…
Initial Reactions to the Amazon Antitrust Case
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Texas is littered with solar panels and wind turbines, but don’t expect them to deliver power as and when you need it. As happens most years, wind turbines across Texas have been on their annual summer vacation, for weeks now. In their absence, solar is able to pitch in for a while, but sunset has […]
Texans Left Scrambling For Power As Wind Turbines Take Another Summer Vacation
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Modern historians conventionally regard Augustus as the first emperor, whereas Julius Caesar is considered the last dictator of the Roman Republic, a view having its origins in the Roman writers Plutarch, Tacitus, and Cassius Dio. Conversely, the majority of Roman writers, including Josephus, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius and Appian, as well as most of the […]
When is an Emperor not an Emperor?: Caesar Augustus. Part II.
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