Aggressive Chess Opening for Black Against 1.d4 [Every Move Is A TRAP]
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in chess
Michigan Court Rejects Effort to Disqualify Donald Trump
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
We have been discussing the nationwide effort to disqualify former President Donald Trump from ballots in key states under a novel theory using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Yesterday, a Michigan judge was the latest to dismiss the effort to prevent voters from being able to vote for Trump. As many of you know,…
Michigan Court Rejects Effort to Disqualify Donald Trump
‘Time’s finally up’: Impending Iceland eruption is part of centuries-long volcanic pulse
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of natural disasters
The headline obviously raises the question of the origin of such a pulse and of its suggested frequency. On the other hand a damp squib (from a spectator point of view) can’t be ruled out entirely at this stage, although some of the cracks already appearing on the surface do look quite large and other […]
‘Time’s finally up’: Impending Iceland eruption is part of centuries-long volcanic pulse
Big Green in trouble – German version
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: atomic energy, Germany, wind power
A number of folk have been waiting impatiently for the contradictions of consensus climate policy to become undeniably apparent. What’s happening in Germany might fit the bill. Germany’s ruling Socialist-Liberal-Green coalition shut down the last of the country’s operating nuclear reactors in April in line with their agreed policy. They overrode calls for a reversal […]
Big Green in trouble – German version
Quantity theory of money, or fiscal theory of the price level?
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, history of economic thought, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights Tags: monetary policy, Somalia
The rebel-controlled Yemeni rial is made up entirely of a fixed supply of notes printed prior to 2016. In the chart below you can see it appreciating in value (the blue line) against the dollar, issued by the world’s most powerful state. pic.twitter.com/vioXHmz2wQ — John Paul Koning (@jp_koning) November 15, 2023
Quantity theory of money, or fiscal theory of the price level?
Phony Nitrogen Crisis for Making War on Farmers
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: Canada
A war against farmers has emerged, threatening to push them off the land they’ve farmed for generations. As small and mid-sized farms close their doors, governments and corporate entities can scoop up the land. Those in control of the land control the food supply and, along with it, the people. In Canada, Trudeau’s Liberals have […]
Phony Nitrogen Crisis for Making War on Farmers
Rent-Seekers Retreat: Grand Wind & Solar Transition Faces Total Collapse
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
The smart money is banking on the wind and solar industries’ total collapse; the smartest money was never invested in the greatest Ponzi scheme of all time. With subsidised wind and solar looking more like a house of cards, dozens of grand standing projects are being unceremoniously dumped. The potential investors targeted by their proponents […]
Rent-Seekers Retreat: Grand Wind & Solar Transition Faces Total Collapse
“The Best Years of Our Lives”
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in movies
This is one of the best American movies ever made, and it’s free—in its entirety—on YouTube. Here’s the Wikipedia summary: The Best Years of Our Lives (also known as Glory for Me and Home Again) is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell. The film is about three United States servicemen re-adjusting to societal changes […]
“The Best Years of Our Lives”
The New Barbarians: Pundits Raise Alarm Over the Sacking of the Beltway by Good Intentions
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
There is a palpable level of panic that seems to have taken hold of Washington this week. Establishment figures are raising the alarm over the rise of dangerous figures as if they are the barbarians at the gate before the sacking of Rome in 410. The threat is coming from both parties in the form […]
The New Barbarians: Pundits Raise Alarm Over the Sacking of the Beltway by Good Intentions
On the 50th anniversary of the DPB
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in economics of education, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: economics of fertility, marriage and divorce
The Domestic Purposes Benefit has been variously described as a “disaster” (David McLoughlin 1995), an “economic lifeline” (Jane Kelsey 1995) and “an unfortunate experiment” (Muriel Newman 2009).Its effect on family formation can never be definitively ascertained. But the growth of the sole parent family dependent on welfare has correlated with more poverty, more child abuse…
On the 50th anniversary of the DPB
India To Increase Coal Production By 60%
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles
By Paul Homewood Emperor Wind may have no clothes, but King Coal carries on regardless! New Delhi: The Union coal ministry on Monday announced plans to increase India’s coal production to 1.404 billion tonne by 2027, with an eye to further boost it to 1.577 billion tonne by 2030. Current domestic […]
India To Increase Coal Production By 60%
Shameless central bankers
15 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economics of bureaucracy, financial economics, fiscal policy, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice Tags: monetary policy
It was in mid-August that this particular bit of shameless Reserve Bank spin got going. From a post in late August It proved to be nonsense of course. Once we had access to the short little IMF piece, published at the back of the Fund’s Article IV review, it was clear that it all amounted […]
Shameless central bankers
Boys are faster
15 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, sports economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
What Was Gary Becker’s Biggest Mistake?
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in behavioural economics, economics of crime, Gary Becker, history of economic thought, law and economics
The econometrician Henri Theil once said “models are to be used but not to be believed.” I use the rational actor model for thinking about marginal changes but Gary Becker really believed the model. Once, at a dinner with Becker, I remarked that extreme punishment could lead to so much poverty and hatred that it could create blowback. Becker […]
What Was Gary Becker’s Biggest Mistake?
Some questions for those protesting for Palestine
15 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace
I’m frankly astonished at the scale, frequency and anger of protests held in solidarity for Palestinians in Gaza, which variously call for a ceasefire, call for “freedom” for Palestine and which variously accuse Israel of atrocities, using the language and statistics issued by the Gazan totalitarian theocrats. It is driven by a coalition of communists,…
Some questions for those protesting for Palestine
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