Almanac: Charles Ponzi and his “Ponzi Scheme”
27 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics
Why the House Has No Alternative to an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden
26 Aug 2023 Leave a comment

Below is my column in The Messenger on the expanding evidence in the Biden corruption scandal and the need for Congress to take commensurate action to investigate the matter. After this column ran, Fox’s Brian Kilmeade conducted an interview with Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. What was striking about the interview is not just the […]
Why the House Has No Alternative to an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden
Why are Gender Pay Gaps so Large in Japan and South Korea?
26 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
From Alice Evans: Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan are closing gender gaps in pay, seniority and parliamentary representation. Japan and South Korea, meanwhile, have the largest gender pay gaps in the OECD. Management remains 85% male. Female graduates are treated like secretaries, expected to pour the tea and run errands. In Japan, a female graduate earns the same as a man […]
Why are Gender Pay Gaps so Large in Japan and South Korea?
Denmark Restores Blasphemy Prosecutions
26 Aug 2023 Leave a comment

In 2017, Denmark took a historic step in favor of free speech by rescinding its blasphemy law after 334 years. For those of us in the free speech community, it was an important moment in Europe where free speech is being rapidly reduced. Now, however, the liberal government is moving to reinstate the blasphemy crime…
Denmark Restores Blasphemy Prosecutions
Fact Checking The Met Office’s Fact Checks
26 Aug 2023 Leave a comment

By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler It seems the Met Office is getting worried that its one-sided reporting of climate change is becoming exposed, as people are beginning to check the facts for themselves: A toolkit of information you can trust. There is overwhelming evidence that climate change is affecting the health of the […]
Fact Checking The Met Office’s Fact Checks
What if Elizabeth I had Died in 1562?
26 Aug 2023 Leave a comment

It is easy to take the long reign of Elizabeth I for granted. But less than four years after Elizabeth ascended the throne, her life was nearly cut short, threatening to bring down the curtain on the Tudor dynasty. What might have ensued is explored by Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of our Lords 1558-1603 section… On 10 […]
What if Elizabeth I had Died in 1562?
Why Germany Hates Nuclear Power
26 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: atomic energy, Germany
The Search for Robert L. Peters: He Goes By Various Names…The Question is Why
25 Aug 2023 Leave a comment

Below is my column on the search for the true identity of Robert L. Peters, the name Republicans believe was used by then Vice President Joe Biden in emails that contradict his past claims on the influence peddling scandal. Here is the column: He is a man with many names. “Celtic.” “The Big Guy.” According […]
The Search for Robert L. Peters: He Goes By Various Names…The Question is Why
Why Climate Models Can’t Be Right
25 Aug 2023 Leave a comment

Vic Hughes explains in his American Thinker article The Blunt Truth about Global Warming Models. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. I may be one of the first scientists in the country to know that predicting long-term temperatures is not possible. Almost 50 years ago, while in grad school, I had a […]
Why Climate Models Can’t Be Right
Koonin’s Climate Honesty
25 Aug 2023 Leave a comment

Steven Koonin shared his honest and wise perspective on global warming/climate change in the interview above. For those who prefer reading, an excerpted transcript from the closed captions provides the highlights in italics with my bolds and added images. PR: Welcome to uncommon knowledge; I’m Peter Robinson. Now a professor at New York University and […]
Koonin’s Climate Honesty
Will AI Make a Planned Economy Feasible? The Socialist Calculation Debate Revisited
25 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought
The “socialist calculation debate” happened in the 1920s and 1930s. The economics profession was developing a vision of the economy as made up of prices and quantities for goods and services, based on supply and demand. Socialist economists (for example, Oskar Lange) sought to build on this framework. Their argument was along the following lines:…
Will AI Make a Planned Economy Feasible? The Socialist Calculation Debate Revisited
Germany’s cheap public transport ticket an ‘ineffective climate tool’
24 Aug 2023 Leave a comment

German hydrogen train [image credit: Euractiv] No surprise there. What are these delusional climate worriers even talking about? If ‘the climate’ was human it wouldn’t give a hoot how Germans get around, but might be bemused to find itself corroding the minds of their leaders with their irrational obsession over ‘carbon emissions’ to the exclusion […]
Germany’s cheap public transport ticket an ‘ineffective climate tool’
Pulping Fiction: Why The Wind & Solar Transition Ain’t Happening (Now or Ever)
24 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Big claims and loose talk about the grand wind and solar energy ‘transition’ don’t make it so. And there is no shortage of either, with myth and mantra being the order of the day. Notwithstanding a staggering and rapid increase in the amount of money squandered on wind and solar, their relative contribution to world […]
Pulping Fiction: Why The Wind & Solar Transition Ain’t Happening (Now or Ever)
More Popper
24 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, Karl Popper Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science

Garland’s Theater of The Absurd: Why the Hunter Biden Scandal is No Longer a Laughing Matter
23 Aug 2023 Leave a comment

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding scandal surrounding the Hunter Biden investigation. Even CNN legal analysts are now calling the handling of the investigation at the Justice Department an “unholy mess.” The responsibility for this theater of the absurd is Attorney General Merrick Garland who has again shown a […]
Garland’s Theater of The Absurd: Why the Hunter Biden Scandal is No Longer a Laughing Matter
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