These Crashes Show the Difference 20 Years Has Made to Car Safety | WIRED
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Former President Truman Recalls Negotiating With DeGaulle and France after WWII
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Copernicus: A Revolution of Astronomical Proportions
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in economics of education, economics of media and culture
Augustus: Rome’s Greatest Emperor
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in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: Roman empire
1948 DNC: Truman’s Democrats Tackle Civil Rights
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in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination
Climate adaptation follies. Part I: The New Jersey challenge
08 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
by Judith Curry
New Jersey has a sea level rise problem. How should this be managed?
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Former President Truman Discusses Using the Atomic Bomb to Win World War II
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in defence economics, International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Atomic bomb, World War II
Wind Power Fail: Britain’s Coal-Fired Power Plants Keep The Lights On During ‘Big Calm’
07 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
If having no power at all was the object of our ‘inevitable transition’ to an all wind and solar ‘powered’ future, then we’re well on our way.
The bitter northern hemisphere winter just gone, has shown wind and solar for what they are: pointless and expensive vanity projects, that only a lunatic would promote and the delusional would accept.
The frigid weather that struck the USA on 16-17 February left its Texan heartland powerless, as solar and wind power output plummeted. Clearly rattled by the event, the wind and solar cult have tried to pin the blame on everything, except the obvious.
The same goes for events across Germany during January, when dead-calm, freezing weather left Germans desperate for coal-fired power – forcing them to have a good, hard think about their obsession with ‘green’ energy.
STT’s reports on Germany’s renewable energy calamity, sent our site into meltdown for…
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Facts About Richard III | History’s Most Reviled King
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in economic history Tags: British history
Professor Fact Checks Money Laundering Scenes, from ‘Ozark’ to ‘Narcos’
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The Hawley-Smoot Tariff and the Great Depression
06 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
The role of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff (aka Smoot-Hawley Tariff) in causing the Great Depression has been an ongoing subject of controversy for close to a century. Ron Batchelder and I wrote a paper (“Debt, Deflation and the Great Depression”) published in this volume (Money and Banking: The American Experience) that offered an explanation of the mechanism by which the tariff contributed to the Great Depression. That paper was written before and inspired another paper “Pre-Keynesian Theories of the Great Depression: What Ever Happened to Hawtrey and Cassell“) I am now revising the paper for republication, and here is the new version of the relevant section discussing the Hawley-Smoot Tariff.
Monetary disorder was not the only legacy of World War I. The war also left a huge burden of financial obligations in its wake. The European allies had borrowed vast sums from the United States to finance their…
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REVEALED: The £1.3 trillion Net Zero cost estimate called ‘more realistic’ by Treasury, suppressed by government
06 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
Brits were misled about cost of Net Zero
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Government estimates usually mean ‘not less than’, but this is worse than that. It’s supposed not to be possible to tie the hands of future governments on policy matters, but that’s what the Climate Change Act does, based on the notion that CO2 is ‘harmful’ – except for plant growth and in fizzy drinks.
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Brits were misled about the cost of the Government’s net zero carbon emissions target by 2050 after Whitehall officials played down the estimated £70 billion annual hit, says The Sun (via The GWPF).
In bombshell emails released after a two-year FOI battle, Treasury civil servants admitted to then-Chancellor Philip Hammond that the cost of going green would likely be £20 billion a year more than the £50 billion figure they were told to champion publicly.
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