It’s been awhile since I have written. I have tried. But I have not had anything useful to say. My concern has always been public policy. What should the government do for the best result? My writing on the government was technical. Here’s what the government is doing. Here’s what they hope to achieve. Here…
RODNEY HIDE: My Journey
RODNEY HIDE: My Journey
19 May 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Goodbye zero emissions
19 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: atomic energy, Germany
New Paper: Global Warming Leading To HIMALAYAN COOLING, Preventing Glacial Melt!
19 May 2024 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
At the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) YouTube account, the young EIKE climate lady delivers the latest climate video, focusing on the Himalayas, which, as some of you may recall, would go ice-free by 2030, according to Prof. Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber. The video features a paper by Salerno et al, 2023: “Local cooling and…
New Paper: Global Warming Leading To HIMALAYAN COOLING, Preventing Glacial Melt!
TVNZ hīkoi documentary needs a sequel
19 May 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economic history, law and economics, movies, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: native title
Graham Adams writes that 20 years after the land march, judges are quietly awarding a swathe of coastal rights to iwi. Early this month, an hour-long documentary was released by TVNZ to mark the 20th anniversary of the land-rights march to oppose Helen Clark’s Foreshore and Seabed Act. The account of 2004’s hīkoi from Cape […]
TVNZ hīkoi documentary needs a sequel
Debunking Bad Class Warfare and Debunking Nonsensical Class Warfare
19 May 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment
Like Thomas Piketty, Gabriel Zucman is a French economist who promotes economically destructive class-warfare tax policy. He’s also infamous for dodgy data manipulation, as Phil Magness explains in this Reason discussion. The interview lasts for 64 minutes, and I recommend the entire discussion. Yes, that’s a lot of time, but Phil has encyclopedic knowledge and […]
Debunking Bad Class Warfare and Debunking Nonsensical Class Warfare
Sonoma State University President Suspended For Caving to Pro-Palestinian Protesters
18 May 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of education, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, law and order, Middle-East politics, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
Sonoma State University President Mike Lee has been suspended after sending out an email yielding to the demands of pro-Palestinian students and faculty. In a Wednesday statement, California State University Chancellor Mildred Garcia criticized Lee for “insubordination” and placed him on administrative leave. Lee had only been in the position for 20 months.
Sonoma State University President Suspended For Caving to Pro-Palestinian Protesters
Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought–Guardian
18 May 2024 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood Today’s bilge from the Guardian: The economic damage wrought by climate change is six times worse than previously thought, with global heating set to shrink wealth at a rate consistent with the level of financial losses of a continuing permanent war, research has found. A 1C increase in […]
Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought–Guardian
Tenth Battle of The Isonzo River – Trotsky Arrives in Petrograd I THE GR…
18 May 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Russian revolution, World War I
Battery Arbitrage
18 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: solar power
Solar is powering a large share of California’s energy needs during the day and batteries are now powering a significant share at night. NYTimes: Since 2020, California has installed more giant batteries than anywhere in the world apart from China. They can soak up excess solar power during the day and store it for use […]
Battery Arbitrage
Two central banks
18 May 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand Tags: monetary policy
Michael Reddell writes – I got curious yesterday about how the Australia/New Zealand real exchange rate had changed over the last decade, and so dug out the data on the changes in the two countries’ CPIs. Over the 10 years from March 2014 to March 2024, New Zealand’s CPI had risen by 30.3 per cent […]
Two central banks
Getting Played: The Demolition of Cohen on Cross Examination Reveals “The Grift” to a New York Jury
18 May 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in Fox.com on the approaching end of the Trump trial in Manhattan. With the dramatic implosion of Michael Cohen on the stand on Thursday with the exposure of another alleged lie told under oath, even hosts and commentators on CNN are now criticizing the prosecution and doubting the basis for any […]
Getting Played: The Demolition of Cohen on Cross Examination Reveals “The Grift” to a New York Jury
Is it time to take the Interislander away from Kiwirail?
17 May 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, politics - New Zealand, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, theory of the firm, transport economics
The Herald reports: KiwiRail’s seemingly endless requests for more money is damning. At one point, KiwiRail assured Robertson when he was the Finance Minister that the worst-case scenario would be an extra $300 million before requesting $1.2 billion a few months later. Not what most people regard as worst case. It’s no wonder Ministry of Transport officials […]
Is it time to take the Interislander away from Kiwirail?
New York restaurants find a new way to respond to the minimum wage
17 May 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, entrepreneurship, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage
The New York Times (paywalled, but also available here) reported last month:At Sansan Chicken in Long Island City, Queens, the cashier beamed a wide smile and recommended the fried chicken sandwich.Or maybe she suggested the tonkatsu — it was hard to tell, because the internet connection from her home in the Philippines was spotty.Romy, who…
New York restaurants find a new way to respond to the minimum wage
HENRY ERGAS: Universities offer course in self-serving cowardice
17 May 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics, laws of war, politics - Australia, war and peace Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, political correctness, regressive left, useful idiots, war against terror
When in Randall Jarrell’s Pictures from an Institution, a college president is accused of being a hypocrite, the novel’s narrator retorts that the description is grossly unfair. After all, the man is still far from the stage of moral development at which the charge could possibly arise: to be a hypocrite one has to know…
HENRY ERGAS: Universities offer course in self-serving cowardice
No, President Biden Did Not Commit an Impeachable Offense in Freezing the Arms Shipment to Israel
16 May 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, law and economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: 2024 presidential election, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
Below is my column in USA Today on the effort to impeach President Joe Biden over his freezing of arms shipments to Israel. While one can strongly disagree with the policy or the motivation behind the action, it is not a high crime and misdemeanor in my view. Here is the column:
No, President Biden Did Not Commit an Impeachable Offense in Freezing the Arms Shipment to Israel
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