Four months ago, the Antiplanner observed that the market for electric cars was supposedly booming. Yet I was skeptical. Ford, Toyota, and other mainstream manufacturers were making very limited runs of electric vehicles, making it hard to get one. Others, such as Fiat-Chrysler, weren’t making any at all. Other than … Continue reading →
More Questions about Electric Vehicles
More Questions about Electric Vehicles
11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics
November 9, 1918: Collapse of the German Monarchies
10 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: Germany, World War I
As the first Word War was drawing to a close, throughout the month of November 1918, all 22 monarchs within the German Empire were either forced to abdicate, or stepped down of their own accord. After the Oberste Heeresleitung stated the German front was about to collapse and asked for immediate negotiation of an armistice, […]
November 9, 1918: Collapse of the German Monarchies
Science denial
10 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, environmental economics Tags: Anti-Science left, conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
Pointless Preaching: Zero Chance of Meeting Net Zero CO2 Emissions Targets
10 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Setting pointless targets and announcing five-year plans is all the rage, which includes playing accounting tricks with carbon dioxide gas emissions. So-called net-zero carbon dioxide gas emissions targets are just the latest tool employed by crony capitalists to separate the poor from their hard-earned cash. Those behind the scam know full well the targets they […]
Pointless Preaching: Zero Chance of Meeting Net Zero CO2 Emissions Targets
Charming The Poles – The Central Powers Look For New Allies I THE GREAT …
10 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
GRAHAM ADAMS: Does learning te reo make you virtuous?
10 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: economics of languages
A week before election day, TVNZ’s John Campbell went to a polling station in Ōtara, South Auckland, to lie in wait for voters. When he encountered a young Māori woman who was about to vote for the first time, his trademark gushiness was unleashed: “Mere is nineteen. She speaks fluent te reo Māori and English.…
GRAHAM ADAMS: Does learning te reo make you virtuous?
This year ‘virtually certain’ to be warmest in 125,000 years, EU scientists say — ignoring contradictory evidence?
10 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in econometerics, environmental economics, global warming
The ‘virtual’ in virtually certain is from a computer model result: ‘we combine our data with the IPCC’. Two things to bear in mind: satellite data only started in the 1970s, with other less accurate (due to shortage of data) records being kept from the 1880s onwards, and ‘the mid-Holocene … mean annual temperature reached […]
This year ‘virtually certain’ to be warmest in 125,000 years, EU scientists say — ignoring contradictory evidence?
Book Presentation with John Cochrane: “The Fiscal Theory of the Price Le…
09 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, public economics Tags: monetary policy
Who ruled Germany before Hitler? Weimar Republic (1918–1933)
09 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: Germany, Nazi Germany, World War I
Why Gen Z Are Blind to Bloodthristy Hamas
09 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Brad Polumbo explains at Newsweek An Insane Number of Gen Zers Support Hamas’s Slaughter of Innocent Israelis. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. Nearly half of young respondents said they side with the terrorist group that just earlier this month purposefully targeted and slaughtered innocent civilians. Gen Z is really not okay. […]
Why Gen Z Are Blind to Bloodthristy Hamas
Biden 2.0: Can the President Avoid the “Second-Term Curse”?
09 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in The Hill on a second Biden Administration and what it might entail in policy priorities. With one year before the next presidential election, the Hill asked me to project what such a second term might look like for President Joe Biden. Here is the column: Popular culture has curses that…
Biden 2.0: Can the President Avoid the “Second-Term Curse”?
Self Imposed Energy Poverty Coming to Canada
08 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Canada
Jock Finlayson describes how climate change policies are depleting Canadians’ financial means in his article Millions of Canadians May Face ‘Energy Poverty’. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The term “energy poverty” is not yet part of day-to-day political debate in Canada, but that’s likely to change in the next few years. […]
Self Imposed Energy Poverty Coming to Canada
International Law in War
08 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics
A follow-up to my post on Bombing Your Way To Proportionality as one Natasha Hausdorff discusses more than just that aspect of waging war. She’s a barrister who got a law degree at Oxford University and an LL.M. specialising in public international law. She then clerked for the President of the Supreme Court of Israel […]
International Law in War
Willis as Minister of Finance
08 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
In this morning’s edition The Post has a double-page article about what Nicola Willis might be like as Minister of Finance. Those of my comments that were included are here My bottom line was actually very similar to that of CTU economist, Labour champion, and former political adviser to Grant Robertson who was quoted as […]
Willis as Minister of Finance
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