You have surely heard that three young Palestinian-Americans, Kinnan Abdalhamid, Hisham Awartani, and Tahseen Ali Ahmad, were shot on November 25 in Burlington, Vermont. Two of the injured were American citizens; the other a legal resident. The alleged shooter, Jason Eaton, was captured and appears to be mentally ill. From the NYT: They were shot […]
The media wants a hate crime
The media wants a hate crime
02 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: law and order, political correctness, regressive left
Covid-19 – Vaccines and Vaccine Mandates
02 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
The logic of vaccines had always been very clear. If you were vaccinated you didn’t need to be concerned about unvaccinated people. The disease was their problem. C-19 inverted that logic. Halcyon days were it not for the permanent memory of the Interwebby. From a purely technical point-of-view I was quite interested in the race […]
Covid-19 – Vaccines and Vaccine Mandates
Gas network already at maximum capacity as cold snap hits
02 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood h/t Phil Bratby/Ian Magness Britain’s gas network has already hit full capacity as renewable energy fails to generate the power needed to heat the UK’s homes. Freezing temperatures mean energy demands have soared in recent days, but low winds mean output at wind farms has plunged, according to data from […]
Gas network already at maximum capacity as cold snap hits
Government net debt: how does NZ compare?
02 Dec 2023 1 Comment
in budget deficits, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand
In my post yesterday on the new OECD Economic Outlook fiscal numbers I included this chart Even if you leave off the last two observations (OECD projections based on current – Labour government – fiscal policy) recent trends have hardly been something to take any comfort in. But at least we were still a bit […]
Government net debt: how does NZ compare?
Retrograde Renewables: Wind & Solar Transition Means Return to Pre-Industrial Age
02 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Wind and solar are hopelessly unreliable and intermittent, and wild promises of grid-scale storage of wind and solar are a cruel hoax. Dilute and diffuse, no modern economy has powered itself using sunshine and breezes, no country worth its salt, ever will. The wind and sun cult tries to ignore the fact that the story […]
Retrograde Renewables: Wind & Solar Transition Means Return to Pre-Industrial Age
Dr Michael John Schmidt: Poisoned pill – Te Whatu Ora
02 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
In September 2008 during the year of the last financial collapse, Peter Cappelli authored an article titled The Trouble with HR in the Harvard Business Review. In it, he argued that HR departments had lost their relevance and credibility in many organisations, asserting the need for them to reinvent themselves. Cappelli claimed that HR departments…
Dr Michael John Schmidt: Poisoned pill – Te Whatu Ora
The Reputation of Karl Marx and the Soviet Revolution of 1917
02 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in history of economic thought, Marxist economics
Karl Marx (1818-1883) remains one of the most highly cited authors in academic literature, 140 years after his death. But when did his writing become especially prominent? During his lifetime or after? And how has his prominence trended in recent decades? Philip Magness and Michael Makovi discuss the history and offer some measurements of how…
The Reputation of Karl Marx and the Soviet Revolution of 1917
Lord Hannan, Daniel speaks about equality, the Treaty and the Taxpayers’…
01 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, gender, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
COP28: India doubles down on right to increase coal power and CO2 emissions
01 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: India
“India cannot survive without coal as it has no other options.” The post COP28: India doubles down on right to increase coal power and CO2 emissions first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
COP28: India doubles down on right to increase coal power and CO2 emissions
The double irony of classes voluntarily segregated by race
01 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Here we have a news piece (not an op-ed) from a recent Wall Street Journal, reporting that a high school in the Chicago-adjacent town of Evanston, Illinois, is offering voluntarily race-segregated classes as a way to achieve “equity”. These classes, called “affinity classes”, are of course optional, because mandated race-segregated classes are illegal. The claim […]
The double irony of classes voluntarily segregated by race
November 17, 1516: Birth of Queen Mary I of England and Ireland. Part VI.
01 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
Religious policy In the month following her accession, Mary issued a proclamation that she would not compel any of her subjects to follow her religion, but by the end of September 1553, leading Protestant churchmen—including Thomas Cranmer, John Bradford, John Rogers, John Hooper, and Hugh Latimer—were imprisoned. Mary’s first Parliament, which assembled in early October, […]
November 17, 1516: Birth of Queen Mary I of England and Ireland. Part VI.
Romania On The Ropes – Reflections On The Battle of the Somme I THE GREA…
01 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
EV chargers, heat pumps may be curtailed in Germany as of 2024
01 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood This caught my eye: Germany’s residential grid operators will be empowered to restrict the flow of power to heat pumps and electric vehicle (EV) chargers from 2024 in order to preserve the stability of the grid, which is suffering from chronic underinvestment. Across Europe, investments into grids are lagging […]
EV chargers, heat pumps may be curtailed in Germany as of 2024
Canadian Green Electricity Push Blocked by Alberta
01 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Canada
Alberta has invoked the Sovereignty Act to set limits on the exercise of federal power. But the federal government claims there is no legal basis for their actions.
Canadian Green Electricity Push Blocked by Alberta
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