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09 May 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my New York Post column on the unseemly scene in the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan as prosecutors used porn star Stormy Daniels to present lurid details on her alleged tryst with former president Donald Trump. It was a dumpster fire that Judge Merchan watched burn for a full day and then said […]
Stormy Daniels Day: Alvin Bragg Lights Dumpster Fire in Manhattan
07 May 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, wealth tax
Everything you need to know about wealth taxation can be summarized in two sentences. The biggest problem with most tax systems is the pervasive tax bias against income that is saved and invested, which discourages the accumulation of capital that helps to finance future growth. Wealth taxes would dramatically increase the tax bias against saving […]
Dishonest Pimping for a Global Wealth-Tax Cartel
07 May 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Below is my column in The Hill on the expected appearance of Michael Cohen in the Manhattan trial of former president Donald Trump. It will be a scene that is both mesmerizing and repellent for many, particularly in the bar. Here is the column: A disbarred, serial perjurer walks into a courtroom and…
A Disbarred, Serial Perjurer Walks into a Courtroom and Asks to Take an Oath . . . Seriously, No Joke
06 May 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, war and peace Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Middle-East politics, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, useful idiots, war against terror
The backlash over the settlement of Northwestern University with pro-Palestinian protesters continues to mount. In a letter acquired by The Daily Northwestern, seven out of 11 members of the “President’s Advisory Committee on Preventing Antisemitism and Hate” resigned this week in protest.
Majority of Northwestern’s Anti-Semitism Task Force Members Resign Over Deal With Protesters
05 May 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
The Trump short list for vice presidential candidates is reportedly down to Ohio Senator, J.D. Vance, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. Rubio is a favorite for many due to his record in the Senate and his appeal to hispanic voters (where the GOP is hoping […]
Trump’s 12th Amendment Problem: The VP Short List Has a Residency Dilemma
03 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights
Update May 1, 2024 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals grants Federal government’s petition for writ of mandamus in the case of Juliana v. United States, originally filed in 2015. Ruling excerpts are below in italics with my bolds. 20240501_docket-24-684_order In the underlying case, twenty-one plaintiffs (the Juliana plaintiffs) claim that—by failing to adequately respond to […]
May Day: Appeals Court Rules Against Kids’ Climate Lawsuit
01 May 2024 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: abortion law reform
Dobbs, of course, was the Supreme Court decision saying that the constitution does not provide a right to abortion, thus leading to restrictions on abortion in many states. The pictures is from The Economist, the original paper is here.
Tying the Knot
30 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Basically just a follow-up to my post on Biden’s senility the other day (Inaudible Pause), where I said I’d lost track of his incidents. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has done the job. Trigger Warning: this is painful to watch, and when you think about the nuclear codes, scary. As Sasha Stone says, allowing Joe […]
Five Straight Minutes Of Senile Dementia
29 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in The Hill on the first week of testimony in the Trump trial. It is making Rube Goldberg’s 13 step self-operating napkin look like a model of efficiency and clarity. It is so convoluted and illogical it is mesmerizing. Here is the column:
Alvin Bragg and The Art of Not Taking Law Too Seriously
28 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, politics - USA, television, TV shows Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
If you thought the political cartoons from earlier today were funny you’re going to love the next two videos. Just don’t kid yourself that libertine comedian Bill Maher is going to vote GOP in this year’s election, let alone for Donald Trump. He’s not red-pilled yet, merely rolling it around on his tongue to see […]
Two Videos from a “Liberal” licking a Red Pill
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
A student leader at Columbia is under fire this week over a newly-resurfaced video declaring that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” Khymani James has been one of the leaders at the anti-Israel encampment at Columbia and featured prominently by media outlets. He is reportedly the spokesperson for Columbia’s anti-Israel student group Apartheid Divest James embodies the type of radical […]
“Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live”: Columbia Student Leader Under Fire for Violent Rhetoric
26 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - USA Tags: competition law, creative destruction
From former DOJ Economist Greg Werden: The governments case suggests that its exclusive deals with Apple and Mozilla to be the default search engine on their browsers “allowed Google to maintain its monopoly power [in “general search”] in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act.” However, the government’s brief also suggests that Google’s scale is very important,…
US v. Google: do complaints have to be internally consistent?
23 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: anticapitalist mentality, capitalism and freedom
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in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, implicit bias, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
Several common measures — like employing a chief diversity officer, offering diversity training or having a diverse board — were not correlated with decreased discrimination in entry-level hiring, the researchers found. But one thing strongly predicted less discrimination: a centralized H.R. operation. The researchers recorded the voice mail messages that the fake applicants received. When a company’s […]
Hiring discrimination sentences to ponder
21 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: abortion law reform, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
We have often discussed how cities and universities will use the threat of protests to block or shutdown free speech, particularly of conservative speakers or groups. We now have a major decision out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that could prove an important precedent in resisting the growing anti-free […]
Ninth Circuit Rules Against Seattle in Using “Heckler’s Veto” in Arrest of Pro-Life Protester
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