Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Given the choice, power consumers would have rejected the wind and solar transition and the net-zero CO2 madness that underpins it, from the outset. At the heart of their new-found and growing hostility is the question of who benefits? And who pays? Having been repeatedly pounded with off-the-charts electricity bills, the great unwashed are starting […]
Voters Reject Net-Zero Madness: Wind & Solar Transition Faces Serious Opposition
25 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
This month, the Coolidge Reagan Foundation has called upon the Michigan bar to investigate and sanction Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over her comments on Gaza and Israel. While I have been critical of Tlaib over her rhetoric and claims on the Hamas attack and later war, I believe that such sanctions would be inimical to […]
No, Rashida Tlaib Should Not Be Sanctioned by the Michigan Bar
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health and safety, labour economics
The transition to electric vehicles is hardly going to plan: sales have collapsed in the US, EV manufacturers are bleeding cash and insurers are cranking up premiums to account for an uptick in the number of unscheduled battery blowups – aka ‘thermal runaways’. The vehicle doesn’t go anywhere, it simply self-immolates in a plume of […]
Unscheduled Battery Blowups Turning Electric Vehicles Into Mobile Time Bombs
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Wilders won resoundingly in the Netherlands, and polled much stronger after October 7. Yesterday there were anti-immigrant riots in Dublin, typically a relatively open city (most likely an Algerian migrant stabbed several people). The “far right” party in Austria is very popular, AfD is doing well in Germany, and France could flip. Italy already is […]
The Geert Wilders victory, and more
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Maybe I’m just cynical, but all the reports I saw in the liberal media, which includes the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Guardian, seemed positively gleeful that Israel couldn’t instantly uncover all the tunnels that the IDF claimed were under al-Shifa Hospital. If they couldn’t, the papers’ implications went, then Israel would […]
More tunnels under al-Shifa hospital: an embarrassment to the Western media and an indictment of NGOs
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You’ll remember during the election campaign how National (Willis and Luxon) repeatedly told us that their fiscal plans (notably the Back Pocket Boost giveaway plan) was fully funded. Whenever doubts were raised about the foreign buyers’ tax revenue estimates National (a) asserted full confidence in their numbers, and b) reiterated that their plan was…..fully funded. […]
Breathtaking
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Bryce Edwards writes – New Zealand’s rules to regulate money in politics can now officially be declared broken. Although, in theory, political parties are required to publicly declare any large donations, we now know that in practice they sometimes don’t, and the enforcement and legal consequences can be extremely weak. We know this because this […]
BRYCE EDWARDS: Court ruling shows big political donations can be given secretly
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In “The Indispensable Right,” I discuss how academics are now leading an anti-free speech movement on campuses that challenges the centrality (or even the necessity) of free speech protections in higher education. The latest such argument appeared this month in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Professors: Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity are Not Essential to Higher Education
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
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in labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, public economics
Tax rates matter for work incentives. When tax rates are high, there is less incentive for people to work. They may pass up additional work and choose leisure time instead. However, it isn’t just taxes that matter. It is the loss of other entitlements as well. All of these are bound up in what is…
Effective marginal tax rates, and work incentives for older people
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture
23 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” – Sun Tzu (544 ─ 496BC)ISRAEL’S LEGAL RIGHT to strike back at Hamas is unchallengeable. No nation, having suffered the sort of horrific attack unleashed upon Israel by Hamas terrorists on 7 October 2023,…
The Right Move Against Hamas Was Not To Make One.
23 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in USA Today on the “deactivation order” issued to a controversial pro-Palestinian group at the University of Florida. The order in my view is unconstitutional. We need to focus on deterring acts of destruction and any violent threats or acts on our campuses. We can maintain a safe space for all…
Florida’s “Deactivation” of Pro-Palestinian Group is Unconstitutional
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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