Utopia, you are standing in it!

German hydrogen train [image credit: Euractiv] No surprise there. What are these delusional climate worriers even talking about? If ‘the climate’ was human it wouldn’t give a hoot how Germans get around, but might be bemused to find itself corroding the minds of their leaders with their irrational obsession over ‘carbon emissions’ to the exclusion […]

Germany’s cheap public transport ticket an ‘ineffective climate tool’

Big claims and loose talk about the grand wind and solar energy ‘transition’ don’t make it so. And there is no shortage of either, with myth and mantra being the order of the day. Notwithstanding a staggering and rapid increase in the amount of money squandered on wind and solar, their relative contribution to world […]

Pulping Fiction: Why The Wind & Solar Transition Ain’t Happening (Now or Ever)

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding scandal surrounding the Hunter Biden investigation. Even CNN legal analysts are now calling the handling of the investigation at the Justice Department an “unholy mess.” The responsibility for this theater of the absurd is Attorney General Merrick Garland who has again shown a […]

Garland’s Theater of The Absurd: Why the Hunter Biden Scandal is No Longer a Laughing Matter

Bryce Edwards writes –  Labour appears to be in something of an electoral death spiral. The four-point drop in last night’s 1News Verian poll to just 29 per cent – together with National’s bump up to 37 per cent – suggests that the gulf between the left and right blocs is now opening up, and […]

BRYCE EDWARDS: Is it now all over for the Labour Government?

The fact that every country that’s increased reliance on wind and solar is suffering rocketing power prices is incontrovertible. And that simple relationship puts paid to the myth that wind and solar are cheaper than coal and gas, principally because it’s heavily subsidised wind and solar that are (occasionally) displacing coal and gas-fired power. When […]

Mythbusting: There’s No Way Wind & Solar Are Cheaper Than Coal & Gas

Below is a slightly expanded version of my column in The Hill on the increasingly popular theory that former president Donald Trump is already barred from office under the 14th Amendment. It is a theory that, in my view, has a political appeal that outstrips its constitutional support. In a constitution designed to protect free […]

The Disqualification of Donald Trump and Other Legal Urban Legends

As the third poll  in a row shows Labour slipping below 30%, and the  gap between parties on the right and those on the left widening, the prospect of a  change of government  on October 14 has strengthened. This of course  is  a blow to those who believed the ascendancy of Chris Hipkins to the […]

Yet another poll puts Labour’s support below 30% as nation seeks saviour from economic woes

LA’s crime problems are not as bad as those of San Francisco and Oakland, where the latest piece of irony is that officials have advised workers at the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building to work remotely if possible due to “public safety concerns”. But if LA is not doing as badly that’s likely only because it’s […]

Fatal attitudes toward crime – Los Angeles

I’m not a huge fan of central banks publishing medium-term economic forecasts (or projections as we were usually schooled to call them). As I understand it, decades ago the Reserve Bank of New Zealand only started publishing them because the Official Information Act was passed (and in those days the forecasts made little or no […]

Almost done…at least according to the Reserve Bank

Below is my column in USA Today on the growing excitement among pundits on the prospect that former President Donald Trump could be going to jail. The celebration is a tad premature. Indeed, Trump could be convicted before the election and not be sent to prison for years, if ever. The prospect of prison depends […]

Lock Him Up! The Excitement over Trump in Prison is Tellingly Premature

Spearing thousands of wind turbines into rural communities and carpeting them with endless seas of solar panels is only just the beginning. To connect those hopelessly intermittent power sources to market requires thousands of (otherwise unnecessary) kilometres of additional transmission lines. All of that environmental destruction could have readily been avoided had Australia simply maintained […]

Why Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Spells Inevitable Environmental Disaster

Here is my Bloomberg column on that topic, here is the trickiest point: Another concern, more significant, is that dollarization would be a huge upfront cost to the government of Argentina: Someone would have to actually come up with all the dollars to serve as currency. Keep in mind, however, that the economy of Argentina…

Argentina should dollarize

In my post on Thursday I commented briefly on the appearance by the Governor and his Chief Economist at Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee. They tried to suggest to the Committee that to the extent there had been inflation forecast errors over the last year – responding to a question from Nicola Willis – that […]

Misleading Parliament