Another Great Escape
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in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
Note the maximum cruising altitude
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics Tags: electric planes
Watch “Which countries have emitted the most CO2 since 1750?
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in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Looking back to the deposit guarantee
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12 October 2008 was a frantic day. It was a Sunday, and I never work Sundays (well, two financial crises, one in Zambia, one in New Zealand, in 30+ years). There was a call in the middle of our church service summoning all hands to the pump, to put in place a retail deposit guarantee scheme that day. We did it. My diary later that night records that we’d “delivered a brand spanking new not very good deposit guarantee scheme”, announced a few hours earlier. It was a joint effort of the Reserve Bank and The Treasury.
I had recently taken up a secondment at The Treasury. I’d been becoming increasingly uneasy about the New Zealand financial situation for some months (flicking through my copy of Alan Bollard’s book on the crisis I found wedged inside a copy of an email exchange he and I had had a month…
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A happy ten-year anniversary to the case people love to hate
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A hard groups of people of any size to do anything without ending up in some sort of incorporated form or an incorporated society or non-profit these days.
This month marks the ten-year anniversary of one of the most despised and misunderstood Supreme Court cases: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
I love Citizens United. It stands as perhaps the most important First Amendment decision of the last decade. Yet it’s come to symbolize the illicit marriage between money and power, while what actually happened in the case is largely an afterthought. I remember encountering an enraged signature-gatherer outside a Trader Joe’s a few years ago who was engaged in one of the many campaigns to amend the Constitution to put an end to Citizens United. I thought he might have a coronary when I told him that it was one of my favorite Supreme Court decisions. I deeply regret not asking him if he could rehearse for me the facts of the case. Maybe he would’ve surprised me.
So what did Citizens United actually…
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News to @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz @Greenpeace @jeremycorbyn
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in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: extreme poverty, The Great Escape
Left were fair weather friends of free speech at best
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
#OTD 1994 #globalwarming #climateemergency @Greens
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in economics of natural disasters, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias, regressive left
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