Tweet… is from page 29 of the 1981 edition of George Reisman’s translation of Ludwig von Mises’s 1933 tract, Epistemological Problems of Economics: Human action always confronts experience as a complex phenomenon that first must be analyzed and interpreted by a theory before it can even be set in the context of an hypothesis that…
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Quotation of the Day…
01 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Ten Reasons Why the Biden Impeachment Inquiry is Justified
01 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
There have been repeated references to the ten facts that I alluded to in my congressional testimony as establishing an ample basis to launch a formal impeachment inquiry. I have received emails asking about those ten developments so I wanted to post them. They are found in my written testimony, but I did not have […]
Ten Reasons Why the Biden Impeachment Inquiry is Justified
Death and popcorn
01 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
So Diane Feinstein did not make it to the political finish line of 2025. Suffering from numerous ailments, including senility, and often absent from the Senate, and having announced that she would retire at the end of this term, she finally died the other day at the age of 90. Despite attacks on her by […]
Death and popcorn
The Man Who Stole the Atomic Bomb – WW2 Documentary Special
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Atomic bomb, World War II
DON BRASH: WHY MY PARTY VOTE WILL BE GOING TO ACT
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
I don’t suppose anybody will be terribly surprised when I say that my party vote will be going to ACT on 14 October. I was a proud member of the National Party when I was in Parliament between 2002 and early 2007, and of course when I was Leader of that Party between late 2003…
DON BRASH: WHY MY PARTY VOTE WILL BE GOING TO ACT
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, population economics
That is a new JEP piece by Melissa S. Kearney, Phillip B. Levine, and Luke Pardue. The piece, while not easily summarized, is interesting throughout. Here is one bit: The decline in birth rates has been widespread across the country. Birth rates fell in every state over this period, except for North Dakota. One possible […]
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession
Ross Clark: Will Germany be the first to ditch its net zero commitments?
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood Which country will become the first to rat on its net zero target, to find some of putting it off, watering it down – or changing the definition of what counts? There must be a lot of money on it being Germany. Things are not going well in Germany’s bid to reach […]
Ross Clark: Will Germany be the first to ditch its net zero commitments?
What Can We Conclude from the Evidence on Minimum Wages and Employment? …
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economic history, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, unemployment
Fiscal Theory of the Price Level – Lecture by John H. Cochrane
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics
Falkenhayn Crosses The Carpathians – The Battle of Sibiu I THE GREAT WAR…
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Not For Profit: Offshore Wind Power Projects Wiped Out By Rising Costs
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
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
Turley Testifies at Biden Impeachment Hearing
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
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
0.7 per cent of GDP
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
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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