Here’s my 20 predictions for 2025, which I’ll score at the end of the year. I got a low 10/20 right for 2024, a B+ in NCEA 🙂
Kiwiblog’s 2025 predictions
Kiwiblog’s 2025 predictions
31 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
The Passing and Lessons of Jimmy Carter
31 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA
This morning, the nation is mourning the loss of one of the most genuinely decent men ever to sit in the Oval Office. Even for his critics, Jimmy Carter was a model of empathy and integrity as an American president. After his presidency, he proved an even greater role model, working tirelessly to help those […]
The Passing and Lessons of Jimmy Carter
Another one leaves the fold: Steve Pinker resigns from the Freedom from Religion Foundation
30 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Like me, Steve Pinker has resigned from the Honorary Board of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). His resignation was sent yesterday. Steve is a bigger macher than I. both intellectually and, in this case, because he was Honorary President of that Board. I put below his two emails, reproduced with permission. The first one […]
Another one leaves the fold: Steve Pinker resigns from the Freedom from Religion Foundation
A third one leaves the fold: Richard Dawkins resigns from the Freedom from Religion Foundation
30 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in discrimination, gender, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, gender gap, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Well, that makes three of us. Steve Pinker, I, and now Richard Dawkins, have all decided independently to resign from the Honorary Board of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). The organization’s ideological capture, as instantiated in throwing in their lot with extreme gender activism and censoring any objection to their views—as well as in […]
A third one leaves the fold: Richard Dawkins resigns from the Freedom from Religion Foundation
James E. Carter (1924-2024)
30 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died today at the age of 100. He was the oldest-ever former president of the United States. It is also worth noting that he was married to Rosalynn Carter for an impressive 77 years. George H.W. Bush was the second-oldest former president, passing at the age […]
James E. Carter (1924-2024)
As Germany’s Energy Crisis Heightens, Two Brief Windless Periods Pushes Grid To The Limit!
30 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: Germany
It is also often forgotten that wind turbines consume electricity when they are stationary or switched off. This is because all technical components (oil pumps, fans, control systems, etc.) must remain in operation even when they are still. Vestas specifies an electricity consumption of 55,000 kWh per year for a 4.2 MW turbine at standstill. During production times, the turbine supplies itself with electricity. But it is virtually idle 120 days a year.
As Germany’s Energy Crisis Heightens, Two Brief Windless Periods Pushes Grid To The Limit!
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer interviewed by Jack Tame
30 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: constitutional law, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
German Death Wish On Display
30 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: Germany
Tilak Doshi describes the self-inflicted German downfall in his Daily Sceptic article Germany’s Economic and Political Suicide. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. It’s that festive time of the year when interesting tales get told around a fireplace. So here goes (minus the fireplace). Once upon a time there lived a country […]
German Death Wish On Display
On the Great F.A. Hayek
30 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought
TweetJonathan Fortier and his colleagues at Libertarianism.org produced this truly splendid 21-minute-long video to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Hayek’s receipt of the Nobel Prize in economics. The post On the Great F.A. Hayek appeared first on Cafe Hayek.
On the Great F.A. Hayek
System Balancing Costs
30 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, wind power
By Paul Homewood David Rose had a good article on wind constraint payments the other day on UnHerd. You can read it here. He began with the example of the Seagreen Offshore Wind Farm, commissioned two years ago. It lies just off the Scottish coast at Montrose. Seagreen has capacity of 1.1 GW, but as […]
System Balancing Costs
Top MR Posts of 2024!
30 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, health and safety, human capital, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: economics of immigration, gender wage gap, Internet, political correctness, regressive left
The number one post this year was Tyler’s The changes in vibes — why did they happen? A prescient post and worth a re-read. Lots of quotable content that has become conventional wisdom after the election: The ongoing feminization of society has driven more and more men, including black and Latino men, into the Republican […]
Top MR Posts of 2024!
International Regulatory Authority Says California Grid at Risk of Energy Shortfalls
29 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: California, solar power, wind power
“With a resource portfolio that includes a substantial amount of solar [panels], the risk of supply shortfall is associated with summer evening periods when demand is high and solar output is diminished.”
International Regulatory Authority Says California Grid at Risk of Energy Shortfalls
Argentina facts of the day
29 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, financial economics, fiscal policy, growth disasters, income redistribution, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: Argentina
Argentina’s bonds have already rallied dramatically. One gauge of the nation’s hard-currency debt, the ICE BofA US Dollar Argentina Sovereign Index, has generated a total return of about 90% this year. Meanwhile, the S&P Merval Index has risen more than 160% this year through Monday, far outpacing stock benchmarks in developed, emerging and frontier markets […]
Argentina facts of the day
What is a woman? My discussion on a Freedom From Religion Foundation website
29 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, gender gap, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
So here’s the story. I’m not only a member and supporter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, but am also on its Honorary Board. Thus I was doubly distressed when I saw the post below on their website Freethought Now!, a post that completely ignores the widely-accepted biological definition of a woman—one based on the […]
What is a woman? My discussion on a Freedom From Religion Foundation website
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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