Orsted’s Financial Collapse Spells Armageddon For US Offshore Wind Industry

When the most heavily subsidised industry on earth can’t make it pay, you know the economics must really stink. Denmark’s Ørsted share price plummeted 25% late last year, and after slashing dividends to shareholders was forced to write $billions off the projected value of its US offshore projects, and its share price is still heading south. Exhibiting […]

Orsted’s Financial Collapse Spells Armageddon For US Offshore Wind Industry

Florida’s One-Man Laffer Curve

Inflation is having an effect on everything, even policy analysis. Back in 2013, I wrote that Phil Mickelson was “California’s One-Man Laffer Curve” because he wanted to escape the Golden State to save about $1.2 million per year in taxes. But now, when a goose that lays golden eggs wants to escape, the numbers are […]

Florida’s One-Man Laffer Curve

Ford EV Crisis: “Our Gen 2 vehicles won’t launch unless we can … profit” 

Death of the EV revolution?

Ford EV Crisis: “Our Gen 2 vehicles won’t launch unless we can … profit” 

Creative destruction

The West’s humiliating electric car climbdown has begun

By Paul Homewood     Ambitious plans for an electrification-led industrial revolution are in full-scale retreat   France’s President Macron had a plan to make millions of electric vehicles a year. Chancellor Scholz planned to put 15 million on Germany’s roads by 2030. President Biden trumped the lot with a $174bn (£138bn) plan to make […]

The West’s humiliating electric car climbdown has begun

Creative destruction

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Breaking the Culture of Welfare Dependency

One hope that has occasionally been expressed since the beginning of the modern era of Treaty of Waitangi (ToW) settlements, has been that the Iwi showered with money and empowered with control of hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars worth of assets, would be able to then make a difference to all the […]

Breaking the Culture of Welfare Dependency

“Independent education consultants” help high school students and their parents navigate the competitive college-admissions process (creative destruction and how the economy just keeps creating new types of occupations & professions)

See Inventing the Perfect College Applicant: For $120,000 a year, Christopher Rim promises to turn any student into Ivy bait by Caitlin Moscatello. This is a fascinating article, even beyond the issue I focus on. Excerpts:”For the past nine years, Rim, 28, has been working as an “independent education consultant,” helping the one percent navigate the…

“Independent education consultants” help high school students and their parents navigate the competitive college-admissions process (creative destruction and how the economy just keeps creating new types of occupations & professions)

Creative destruction

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Creativity

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Doing the jobs the SF cops won’t do

Back in the lockdown depths of 2020 I posted about series of YouTube videos made by a former NASA engineer called Mark Rober who had built a fantastic set of squirrel mazes and then videoed the little buggers getting around his obstacles to get to the bowls of nuts that were the prize. But I’d […]

Doing the jobs the SF cops won’t do

Creative destruction

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A boom

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Milei Speaks Truth to WEF Elite Power

Argentina’s President Javier Milei had a warning for those attending the annual WEF meeting in Davos, Switzerland; ‘the Western world is in danger’ from ‘collectivist experiments’ such as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), and has called on the world to reject socialism and instead embrace “free enterprise capitalism” to end global poverty. H/T zerohedge “Today, […]

Milei Speaks Truth to WEF Elite Power

Productivity woes….continued

In my post on Monday I drew attention (again) to the fact that New Zealand has made no progress at all in reversing the decline in relative economywide productivity (relative to other advanced countries) since what was hoped to be a turning point, with the inauguration of widespread economic reforms after the 1984 election. If anything, […]

Productivity woes….continued

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