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Sir Bob Jones's avatarNo Punches Pulled

1) Third quarter loss of US $1.3 billion.

2) License to operate in London cancelled. (14,000 recorded incidents of unlicensed drivers).

3) Further share-price decline, now under US $30.

4) Uber’s CEO announces he will take the focus off price (Uber’s strong point) and concentrate on company profitability.

As I’ve repeatedly written, Uber, an in-demand service, can only work as a drivers’ co-operative. Its massive flotation was a time-proven signal of a share-market boom about to end. The other is when take-overs take off, they’re currently at record levels.

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More on @paulkrugman forgetting the literature on financial crises

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Gary Becker was highly regarded

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Iron, Steel and Oil – The Fight For Resources I THE GREAT WAR Week 18

A renewables, net zero carbon future is starting from a very low base

When The Beatles Refused To Play To Segregated Audiences

A defendant’s right to a fair trial could be jeopardised under new laws – defence lawyer

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The First Nobel

Amazing

logarithmichistory's avatarLogarithmic History

(First Nobel for Literature, that is)

1899-1905

(A sign of the times: last year, 2018, as a result of sexual harassment allegations, the Swedish Academy did not award a Nobel Prize in Literature. This year Olga Togarczuk got the 2018 prize retroactively. Peter Handke got the 2019 prize.)

The Nobel Prize in Literature goes back to the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Nobel Prize Committee decided to look beyond the sciences. The first prize was to be awarded in 1901. There wasn’t much question who deserved it. Leo Tolstoy was still alive. He was not only the greatest novelist ever, probably, but also an imposing moral figure, a champion of non-violent resistance who would eventually inspire Gandhi and Martin Luther King. So the first Nobel Prize in Literature went to …

Sully Prudhomme

No, I haven’t read anything of his. Have you?

Next year they could still have…

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Steven Pinker on the radical left, Jordan Peterson, Chomsky, and Sam Harris

Environmental Economics | Lynne Kiesling

Pielke Jr.: Just the facts on hurricanes

oldbrew's avatarTallbloke's Talkshop

Hurricane Katrina [image credit: NASA]
In his own style the author tries to point out some of the excesses of climate hotheads who often prefer cries of alarm to observations based on reality. [Below are a few extracts from the full Forbes article].

Summary: Hurricanes have come to occupy a starring role in the political theater that is climate change. As a result, sorting fact from fiction can be difficult.
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The 2019 North Atlantic hurricane season ends officially later this week. Here I am going to give you the straight scoop on hurricanes.

Everything that follows is fully consistent with recent scientific assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, U.S. National Climate Assessment and World Meteorological Organization.

In fact, the information below comes straight out of these authoritative assessment reports.

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@BernieSanders explains @fightfor15 to @AOC

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