The Jones Act requires that American-made and staffed ships carry wind turbine parts to offshore farm sites, according to the WSJ.
100-Year-Old Union-Backed Law Among Snags Derailing Biden’s Green Energy Agenda
100-Year-Old Union-Backed Law Among Snags Derailing Biden’s Green Energy Agenda
17 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Licenced Exterminators: Government Greenlights Wind Industry’s Mass Koala Kill
16 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Australia
As the wind industry rips up huge tracts of Australia’s wilderness, including pristine tropical forests, the iconic koala is literally for the chop. The wind industry treats the koala as yet another expendable critter – just likes whales, dolphins, eagles, hawks, bats and more. The US offshore wind industry has been given the green light […]
Licenced Exterminators: Government Greenlights Wind Industry’s Mass Koala Kill
The Three Myths of the Biden Impeachment Defense
16 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my (slightly updated) column in the New York Post on three myths being widely repeated in the Biden impeachment inquiry. These false narratives have been eagerly repeated in the media despite lacking legal or factual support. In the interest of interjecting a modicum of reality into this debate, here is why these defenses […]
The Three Myths of the Biden Impeachment Defense
Dr Lawrie Knight: Fact Checking Waitangi Tribunal Finding
16 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economic history, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law
Evidence that Northern ,Māori ,knew they were ceding sovereignty to the Crown when they signed the Treaty of Waitangi – fact checking the Waitangi Tribunal 2014 findings and the 2023 findings released on the 8th of December 2023. The Waitangi Tribunal has stated in its 2014 inquiry into Te Paparahi o Te Raki, that the…
Dr Lawrie Knight: Fact Checking Waitangi Tribunal Finding
GDP per capita growth
16 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, economic history, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics
The quarterly GDP data were out on Thursday. Quite how one reads them probably depends on bit on where your focus lies. To the extent that the focus is on squeezing out inflation then any data that points to excess demand dissipating a bit faster is mostly a good and welcome thing. The sooner inflation is back to […]
GDP per capita growth
The Mesopotamian Front Awakens – Joseph Joffre Gets Sacked I THE GREAT W…
15 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
COP 28: The radicals lose again
15 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
In COP 28, the moderates won, and the radical alarmists lost, wasting everybody’s time in the process. The actual negotiations got no press. It was noise all the way down.
COP 28: The radicals lose again
Canadian Medical Schools Asked to Shift From “Medical Expertise” to Anti-Racism and Social Justice Training
14 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, health economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
There is a major controversy brewing in Canada over a proposal in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons that schools shift from emphasizing “medical expertise” in favor of teaching “anti-racism” and social justice values.
Canadian Medical Schools Asked to Shift From “Medical Expertise” to Anti-Racism and Social Justice Training
COP28 Optics: Deal to “Transition Away” not “Phase Out” Fossil Fuels
14 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles
Once again equivocation rules climatists. After the uproar over demands to “phase out” hydrocarbon fuel, the wording was changed to say “transition away.” Thus the divide is papered over while alarmists claim agreement was reached to “leave it in the ground.” Others will point to language such as “transition away in a just, orderly and […]
COP28 Optics: Deal to “Transition Away” not “Phase Out” Fossil Fuels
Hetzel Withholds Credit from Hawtrey for his Monetary Explanation of the Great Depression
14 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, economic history, financial economics, great depression, history of economic thought, labour economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
In my previous post, I explained how the real-bills doctrine originally espoused by Adam Smith was later misunderstood and misapplied as a policy guide for central banking, not, as Smith understood it, as a guide for individual fractional-reserve banks. In his recent book on the history of the Federal Reserve, Robert Hetzel recounts how the […]
Hetzel Withholds Credit from Hawtrey for his Monetary Explanation of the Great Depression
Is Discrimination Still Causing The Gender Pay Gap With Claudia Goldin
13 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
‘Green Energy’ Dream Collides With Harsh Reality: Wind & Solar Just Don’t Work
13 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
When so-called ‘sustainable’ investment funds pull the plug on wind and solar, you know the party’s over. As 2023 closes out, ‘green’ energy investors are facing a brutal and harsh reality: wind and solar will never amount to meaningful power sources. Worse still, governments backing the grand wind and solar transition are having a hard […]
‘Green Energy’ Dream Collides With Harsh Reality: Wind & Solar Just Don’t Work
Creative destruction
13 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, industrial organisation Tags: creative destruction
Afuera!
13 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics Tags: Argentina
Unlike a lot of other people I didn’t get too excited about the election of Javier Milei to the presidency of Argentina, anarcho-capitalism and all. I’ve just been to disappointed by too many “Right-Wing” politicians over the decades, especially the ones who talked about cutting spending and more than that, shrinking the size of the State. […]
Afuera!
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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