The Department of the Interior (DOI) moved to deal another blow to the green energy industry Friday, announcing that it will consider energy projects’ capacity density and the environmental impacts before permitting them, singling out wind and solar.
Trump Admin Moves To Curb ‘Environmentally Damaging’ Green Energy Projects
Trump Admin Moves To Curb ‘Environmentally Damaging’ Green Energy Projects
04 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: solar power, wind power
The Reveal: The Public is Finally Learning How Democrats Pulled Off the Greatest Political Trick in History
02 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election
Below is my column in Fox.com on the release of the last declassified material on the origins of the Russian collusion investigation. After the release, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote in the New York Times insisted that they never relied on the Steele dossier. The column […]
The Reveal: The Public is Finally Learning How Democrats Pulled Off the Greatest Political Trick in History
Full Posting of: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate
01 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA
Among the key findings, the report concludes that carbon dioxide (CO2) -induced warming appears to be less damaging economically than commonly believed, and that aggressive mitigation strategies could be more harmful than beneficial. Additionally, the report finds that U.S. policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate and any effects will emerge only with long delays.
Full Posting of: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate
The NYT screws up when touting “famine” in Gaza, but buries its correction
01 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, media bias, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
The NYT has filled its main e-page with article about starvation in Gaza and other anti-Israel news. Here, for example is the upper-left of today’s front e-page: And that’s pretty much what it looked like for the past couple of weeks. My issue is that I used to trust the Times, but they’ve shown […]
The NYT screws up when touting “famine” in Gaza, but buries its correction
Mamdani’s unworkable proposal for NYC-owned grocery stores
31 Jul 2025 1 Comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of regulation, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: economics of socialism, regressive left, rent control, useful idiots
Democrat Zohran Mamdani is likely to be the next mayor of NYC, as he proffered a number of campaign promises that delighted progressives young and old. (This is besides his pro-Palestinian stand on the Gaza war, which is irrelevant to his actions as NYC mayor but still delighted the benighted.) Here are a few of […]
Mamdani’s unworkable proposal for NYC-owned grocery stores
New Climate Assessment Report from US DOE
31 Jul 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA
by Judith Curry Climate science is baaaack
New Climate Assessment Report from US DOE
North Carolina School District Settles Case After Suspending Teen for Using Term “Illegal Alien”
30 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Christian McGhee, 17, has secured a significant victory for free speech in North Carolina after the Davidson County Board of Education settled a case over his suspension for using the term “illegal alien.” What is disturbing is that, once again, the school officials themselves appear to have escaped any accountability for their abusive treatment of […]
North Carolina School District Settles Case After Suspending Teen for Using Term “Illegal Alien”
CA min wage goes up ==> CA employment declines
29 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: California
The classic book, Economics in One Lesson reduces all of economics to a similar lesson:The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.The lesson of Chapter…
CA min wage goes up ==> CA employment declines
The Usual Suspects: Declassified Russian Investigation Material Reveals a Familiar Rogue’s Gallery
28 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Below is my column on Fox.com regarding the declassification of material related to the origins of the Russian collusion investigation. The same figures are again in the news as the public learns about the real Russian conspiracy. Filling out the cast, the same media figures are again telling the public not to believe their lying […]
The Usual Suspects: Declassified Russian Investigation Material Reveals a Familiar Rogue’s Gallery
Partisan Bias in Professional Macroeconomic Forecasts
27 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, macroeconomics, politics - USA Tags: forecasting errors
Here is a recent paper by Benjamin S. Kay, Aeimit Lakdawala, and Jane Ryngaert: Using a novel dataset linking professional forecasters in the Wall Street Journal Economic Forecasting Survey to their political affiliations, we document a partisan bias in GDP growth forecasts. Republican-affiliated forecasters project 0.3-0.4 percentage points higher growth when Republicans hold the presidency, […]
Partisan Bias in Professional Macroeconomic Forecasts
Horseshoe Theory: Trump and the Progressive Left
26 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2024 presidential election, regressive left, tarrifs
Many of Trump’s signature policies overlap with those of the American progressive left—e.g. tariffs, economic nationalism, immigration restrictions, deep distrust of elite institutions, and an eagerness to use the power of the state. Trump governs less like Reagan, more like Perón. As Ryan Bourne notes, this ideological convergence has led many on the progressive left […]
Horseshoe Theory: Trump and the Progressive Left
California Dems Reportedly Scrambling To Find Buyer For Refinery After Running Owner Out Of Town
25 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: California
The California Energy Commission (CEC) is reportedly actively seeking buyers to stop the upcoming closure of the Valero refinery in Benicia, California, according to three people familiar with the matter that spoke to Reuters. Democrat officials are now reportedly scrambling to keep the refinery operating in California after enforcing stringent regulations that have helped prompt refineries to close across the state for years.
California Dems Reportedly Scrambling To Find Buyer For Refinery After Running Owner Out Of Town
The youth of today
24 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: useful idiots
Markets in everything, bet on tariff repeal edition
23 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, financial economics, international economics, politics - USA Tags: tarrifs
Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, has offered to buy the right to hundreds of millions of dollars in potential refunds from companies that have paid Trump’s tariffs. The offer means that the sons of the pro-tariff commerce secretary, Kyle and Brandon, have made a way for […]
Markets in everything, bet on tariff repeal edition
Planned Parenthood going the way of the ACLU and the SPLC?
23 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, health economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Luana called my attention to an article on wokeness, in this case describing the ideological erosion of Planned Parenthood (henceforth “PP). Click the headline below to read the WSJ “Saturday essay”, or or find it archived free here. Notice that the author is Pamela Paul, formerly the Sunday book-review editor and then a columnist for […]
Planned Parenthood going the way of the ACLU and the SPLC?
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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