via Why the global economy is growing, but CO2 emissions aren’t – The Washington Post.
Why the global economy is growing, but CO2 emissions aren’t – The Washington Post
17 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: global warming
NZ is in the middle of the pack in reducing poverty rates through redistribution
16 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, welfare state
The figure shows pre-transfer and post-transfer poverty rates among OECD countries (mostly the advanced economies). The former (pre-transfer) are the market-driven poverty rates, before the tax and transfer systems kick in.
Source: OECD, *Poverty thresholds: 50% of median income.
Harvard students take the 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test that black voters had to pass to qualify to vote
16 Mar 2015 1 Comment
Maybe the future is not solar and wind, so those mass layoffs of climate alarmists are cancelled
16 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Big Solar, Big Wind, climate alarmists, green rentseeking, solar power, wind power
via eia.gov
The relationship between energy use & GDP
Technology is getting much more efficient
(Source bit.ly/1Anl8AJ) http://t.co/7zYDhXv2lu—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) March 15, 2015
Clinton Favorability, Familiarity Bests 2016 Contenders
15 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
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How the Voting Rights Act immediately changed the electorate in the South – Vox
15 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
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The Voting Right Act had a huge impact on many southern states. For example, black voter registration rates in Mississippi increased from a mere 6.7 percent in 1965 to 59.8 percent in 1967, according to the US Commission for Civil Rights.
For a state that’s historically around 40 percent black, this represented a massive shift in politics — a change that much of the predominantly white leadership at the time feared but would have to accept due to the Voting Rights Act.
via How the Voting Rights Act immediately changed the electorate in the South, in 2 charts – Vox.
RT if you think this summarises the Anti-Science Left
15 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, conjecture and refutation, expressive voting, Green Left, progressive left, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
China’s richest lawmakers make America’s look straight up poor
14 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China
Cats Are Democrats, Dogs Are Republicans
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There Is No Global Jihadist ‘Movement’ — Atlantic Mobile
13 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
Some nice charts about how ISIS is more a rabble that happens to survive because of the lack of unity among its many enemies which include the Iraqi government government and its army that runaway.
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