Why does Belgium Exist?
29 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, international economic law, International law, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: Belgium, Napoleonic wars, World War I, World War II
The wages of sin #OTD The Vice Fund #COVID19
28 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of regulation, financial economics, health economics, rentseeking
Casto @BernieSanders
28 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, Marxist economics Tags: Cuba, regressive left, useful idiots
#climateemergency #globalwarming @GreenpeaceAP @Greens @NZGreens @jamespeshaw @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
28 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists
Have @NZGreens shortened their campaign slogan?
28 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: 2020 New Zealand election
Mugged By Reality – in Three Tweets
28 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
In an earlier post – Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive – I noted an ESPN reporter who rapidly evolved from being a BLM “Burn that shit down” supporter to angrily denouncing “these animals” invading his neighbourhood.
Something similar happened again the other day, this time in Seattle, where it seems Antifa/BLM are having another crack at things after the murderous failure of CHAZ.
Paul Gallant is a talk show host at 710 ESPN Seattle. He’s the co-host of “Danny and Gallant”, weekday mornings on the channel.
Back when Seattle was not dealing with CHAZ and President Trump was calling out the mayor’s uselessness, Gallant responded in an interesting way.
“Chill Dawg.” That is so cool, even with the cultural appropriation, but then he is a sports reporter. It sounds much like the “peaceful protests” headline being pushed…
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New Zealand 2020 preview
28 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
New Zealand’s general election will be 19 September (grrr, they are holding it on Rosh HaShanah). Given the generally good record of the government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in handling COVID-19, at this point the question seems to be, how big will her win be? And how much will her two coalition partners suffer as Ardern’s party gets most of the credit?
Through today, there have been seven recent polls that have put Ardern’s Labour Party over 50% in votes. If this were to happen on election day, it would make for the first time since the mixed-member proportional system was first used (1996) that a single party won a majority of seats or votes.
The last poll showing the main opposition National Party ahead was conducted in February. The party has changed leaders not once, but twice, since then.
Obviously, with a majority, Labour would not…
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Policy in 60 Seconds: The Border Tax (and why it’s a bad idea)
28 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of pandemics
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