That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, I thought it was time to call out all the Orwellian rewriting of intellectual history going on, so here goes: As Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said last week: “So many economists were saying there’s no way for inflation to get back to normal without it entailing a […]
How Were So Many Economists So Wrong About the Recession?
How Were So Many Economists So Wrong About the Recession?
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
December 29, 1170: Assassination of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. Part I.
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
Thomas Becket, also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket (December 21, 1119 or 1120 – December 29, 1170), served as Lord Chancellor from 1155 to 1162, and then notably as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his death in 1170. He engaged in conflict with King Henry […]
December 29, 1170: Assassination of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. Part I.
Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, wind power
… foundations of sand – naïve optimism reinforced by enthusiastic lobbying divorced from engineering reality. The post Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam
Time to Bring Nuclear Energy Into the 21st Century
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: atomic energy
The silver lining of this month’s United Nations COP28 global warming conference is the growing consensus that nuclear energy is critical to meeting national carbon dioxide reduction goals.
Time to Bring Nuclear Energy Into the 21st Century
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, health economics Tags: child mortality, life expectancies, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
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Aussie Coal State Premier Promotes the End of Coal
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Australia, coal power
Queensland’s long reigning premier Annastacia Palaszczuk may have cut and run in the face of negative polls and a looming election, but her successor’s plan to accelerate coal job losses will help?
Aussie Coal State Premier Promotes the End of Coal
Wind Curtailment Costs To Rise To £3 Billion By 2030
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness It appears that the BBC will print any nonsense it is handed by the renewable/climate lobby: Wasted wind power will add £40 to the average UK household’s electricity bill in 2023, according to a think tank.
Wind Curtailment Costs To Rise To £3 Billion By 2030
The Worst Journalism of 2023
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, development economics, economic history, fiscal policy, growth disasters, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: Argentina
Writing about the economic tragedy of Argentina, I’ve explained that one major problem is inflation, thanks to that country’s version of “modern monetary theory.” This is not a trivial problem. Here’s a chart, from a recent report by Reuters, showing how prices have been rising for nearly 10 years and skyrocketing for the past three […]
The Worst Journalism of 2023
Holiday safety advice
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health and safety, labour economics
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Turmoil in Russia – The Assassination of Rasputin I THE GREAT WAR Week 127
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Meat Made Us Human
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: vegetarianism
Humans are now in the optimal position of growing grain to feed animals to produce meat.
Meat Made Us Human
Bari Weiss on why DEI must be dismantled
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
In this 20-minute video, Bari Weiss makes two points. First, the testimony of the MIT, Harvard, and Penn Presidents before a House committee was antisemitic and reprehensible, and reflects a widespread lack of “moral leadership” in universities. Second, this moral leadership requires the elimination of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education. Weiss […]
Bari Weiss on why DEI must be dismantled
190308 [Webinar] Consistent Economic Policy and Economic Development
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, defence economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of information, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, fisheries economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, inflation targeting, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice, public economics, unemployment
Friedman and Schwartz agreed with Anderson, Tollison and Shughart on the public choice origins of the Great Contraction!
28 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, great depression, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: monetary policy
Beijing Breaks Seven Decade Cold Weather Record
28 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: China
I wonder how their solar panels and frost sensitive EVs are working out for them?
Beijing Breaks Seven Decade Cold Weather Record
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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