Environmentalists decry President Trump’s border wall as an environmental disaster. But this Fox News report demonstrates there is more to the issue than wildlife species being disturbed resulting from the wall being built. Naturally, they are seeking to stop its construction.
“Why pay equity ends up being unfair to fair employers” @DomPost op-ed
02 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of regulation, gender, labour economics Tags: gender wage gap
They Shall Not Grow Old trailer colorized 3D World War I film by Peter Jackson
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This is a fairly well established finding
01 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, transport economics Tags: 9/11, offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences, war against terror

Federal auditors call out Germany’s failing green energy transition
30 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
German Chancellor Merkel surveys an offshore wind site [image credit: evwind.es]
Spending fortunes, having little of any benefit to show for it, and not being in control of what’s going on. That seems to be the verdict from the auditors on their government. The sums involved are eye-watering.
Germany’s Federal Audit Office has accused the government of a catastrophic mis-management of the green energy transition (Energiewende), reports The GWPF.
The wastage of resources is “unprecedented”. Germany’s Federal Audit Office has accused the federal government of having largely failed to manage the transformation of Germany’s energy systems.
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How much of a crank is @profstevekeen?
29 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, macroeconomics

From http://chrisauld.com/2012/12/06/steve-keen-still-butchering-basic-microeconomics/ at http://chrisauld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/stern-debunking-review.pdf
Fiscal Policy: The Best Case Scenario
29 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetary economics
David Friedman – Tecnologia y libertad en un mundo imperfecto
29 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights Tags: creative destruction
Milton Friedman: The Food and Drug Administration and Self Interest
28 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: drug lags
PROOF : Climate ‘Scientists’ And The Media Openly Lie About Climate Change To Maintain Funding And Keep Global Warming Hysteria Alive
28 Sep 2018 2 Comments
“Settled Science”
Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to
know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” – UN IPCC
Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical
chemist.
“The whole climate change issue is about to fall apart — Heads will roll!” – South African UN Scientist Dr. Will Alexander, April 12, 2009
“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” – Nobel Prize Winner for
Physics, Ivar Giaever.
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A unique difference, IMO, between climate change sceptics or realists, and climate change alarmists is that sceptics must read alarmist ‘science’ and corresponding media releases in order to provide oversight, where the mainstream media will not, by detecting errors, exaggerations and even outright lies that exist within the masses of human-induced climate change information disseminated by the CO2-centric legacy media.
THIS is not a…
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