Numerous trade associations are asking the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision that effectively allowed California to push electric vehicles (EVs) on the rest of the U.S.
Energy, Business Groups Ask Supreme Court To Stop California From Forcing EVs On the Rest of America
Energy, Business Groups Ask Supreme Court To Stop California From Forcing EVs On the Rest of America
09 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: constitutional law, federalism
“A Death Squad Ruling”: The Press and Pundits Make Wild Claims in the Wake of the Court’s Immunity Decision
08 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in The Hill on the over-wrought reaction to the Supreme Court decision in Trump v. United States. Commentators seemed to compete for the most alarmist accounts from court-sanctioned death squads to political assassinations to the death of democracy. From the coverage of the immunity decision, one would think that the Madisonian […]
“A Death Squad Ruling”: The Press and Pundits Make Wild Claims in the Wake of the Court’s Immunity Decision
The Ghahraman judgment
06 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment
The 60 paragraph decision by Judge Jelas is an interesting read. Some extracts:
The Ghahraman judgment
Finally a great housing package
05 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
Chris Bishop has announced changes to housing laws which will make a huge difference to housing affordability. Almost every expert has said that to reduce pressure on house prices you need to both build up and build out. The NIMBYs oppose building up and the Greenies opposes building out. Phil Rayford in 2017 had some […]
Finally a great housing package
The King, Keir Starmer, and the new Labour government
05 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics Tags: British constitutional law
The Labour Party has won a resounding victory over the Conservatives with exit polls suggesting that they could win as many as 405 seats. While results are still coming in, Rishi Sunak has already conceded to Sir Keir Starmer. So what comes next? Sunak will likely go to the Palace sometime on Friday to tender […]
The King, Keir Starmer, and the new Labour government
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East-aka The Tokyo War Crimes Trial.
03 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Japan, World War II
Most people will have heard of the Nuremberg Trials, but few have heard of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), or Tokyo War Crimes Trial. The Nuremberg trials are often criticized because of the low number of convictions of Nazi War criminals. The conviction rate of International Military Tribunal for the Far […]
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East-aka The Tokyo War Crimes Trial.
No, President Biden, the Supreme Court Did Not Remove Any Limits on the Presidency
03 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
President Joe Biden delivered an address from the White House last night on the presidential immunity decision by the Supreme Court. While pledging that he will defend the rule of law, President Biden misrepresented what that law is in the aftermath of Trump v. United States. While we have often discussed false constitutional claims by […]
No, President Biden, the Supreme Court Did Not Remove Any Limits on the Presidency
Why Britain Lost The Irish War of Independence (4K Documentary)
02 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Ireland
Insurrection-Lite: The Supreme Court Downsizes the “Insurrection” to Largely Trespassing
01 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in the Hill on the Supreme Court decision on Friday in Fischer v. U.S. to reject hundreds of charges in January 6th cases for the obstruction of legal proceedings. For many cases, that will leave relatively minor offenses like trespass or unlawful entry. It is only the latest blow to efforts […]
Insurrection-Lite: The Supreme Court Downsizes the “Insurrection” to Largely Trespassing
Beyond crazy
01 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: free speech, Germany, political correctness, regressive left
Thepublica reports: A 20-year-old woman in Hamburg, Germany, has been sent to prison after making “hateful” remarks towards a migrant who was involved in the gang rape of a child. The woman is just one of 140 people being investigated for making “harmful comments” towards the rapists. However, despite DNA and WhatsApp evidence, eight of the nine men […]
Beyond crazy
Hayley Hooper: Historical Origins of the ‘Principle of Legality’ in British Public Law
30 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: British constitutional law
In 2021 the then Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland QC MP cited the principle of legality as an example of an aspect of public law that might ‘take on a life of [its] own, and lead to the courts overreaching.’ In the simplest terms, the principle of legality is a common law rule of statutory interpretation […]
Hayley Hooper: Historical Origins of the ‘Principle of Legality’ in British Public Law
Want to Defeat Joe Biden? Look to the 1800 Election and Make Free Speech the Key Issue in 2024
28 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Below is my column in USA Today on why the opponents of President Joe Biden should make free speech the focus of this election. With the Supreme Court taking an off ramp in Murthy v. Missouri on Internet censorship, the free speech community is left, for now, with the political process to protect free speech. […]
Want to Defeat Joe Biden? Look to the 1800 Election and Make Free Speech the Key Issue in 2024
The Age of Rage: America’s Anti-Free Speech Movement Will Force Us (Again) To Choose Between Our Rights and Our Rage
27 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Below is my column on Fox.com on my book and how our current “age of rage” may be the most dangerous for free speech, but it is not our first such period in history. Indeed, the current debate is returning this nation to the very debate that erupted at the start of our Republic. Here…
The Age of Rage: America’s Anti-Free Speech Movement Will Force Us (Again) To Choose Between Our Rights and Our Rage
Climate “Communicators” Discover the Best Way to Persuade Voters is to Lie to Them
26 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, transport economics Tags: electric cars
This is a hilarious X (formerly Twitter) thread on a presentation about “messaging over climate”. Worst messages tested: electric cars, Green New Deal, frontline communities, ‘Big Oil lied’, climate pollution Talking about electric cars especially deadly for Democrats. Women in particular frightened of battery running out. (Interesting gendered spin on range anxiety I hadn’t thought […]
Climate “Communicators” Discover the Best Way to Persuade Voters is to Lie to Them
When life imitates comedy: FTC’s Amazon Flip Flop
26 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Ronald Coase Tags: competition law
Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase once quipped that he left antitrust because “When prices go up, its monopolization, when prices fall it’s predation, and when they stay the same it’s collusion.” As if to illustrate this idea, the FTC’s Chair is reversing herself to bring a case against Amazon. On one hand, booksellers argue that Amazon…
When life imitates comedy: FTC’s Amazon Flip Flop
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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