It is no surprise that the Government is reducing the number of public health staff members, when they are spending their time on opposing resource consent applications for a McDonalds in Wanaka, rather than oh preventing the current whooping cough epidemic. Around half the public health staff (those who deal with infectious diseases) do amazing […]
Appalling behaviour by Public Health Te Waipounamu
Appalling behaviour by Public Health Te Waipounamu
01 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: nanny state, regressive left
So Much for the one child policy
01 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of love and marriage, growth miracles, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, population economics Tags: China
Massachusetts has occupational licensing for fortune tellers
30 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of regulation, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: cranks
Here is the link, “Prohibits fraudulently taking money by “pretended fortune telling.”” Seen referenced somewhere on Twitter.
Massachusetts has occupational licensing for fortune tellers
Usual suspects want more debt
30 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, fiscal policy, labour economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
A group of economists have written to Nicola Willis complaining about the modest fiscal restraint imposed on the public sector. Grant Robertson grew government expenditure by $76 billion/year or a massive 7.6% of GDP, leaving NZ with a structural deficit. Many were champions of his policies or worked for him, and now they complain his […]
Usual suspects want more debt
Unauthorized Immigration and Local Government Finances
30 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: economics of immigration
This paper examines how unauthorized immigration affects the fiscal health of local governments in the United States. Using detailed data on unauthorized immigrants’ countries of origin and arrival dates from the Syracuse TRAC database, we isolate immigration flows driven by social, economic, and political conditions in source countries. We predict local immigration patterns using a […]
Unauthorized Immigration and Local Government Finances
All Quiet On The Eastern Front – Action in East Africa I THE GREAT WAR W…
30 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War I
So that’s what gets Reti riled – a National Public Health Service submission against McDonald’s setting up shop in Wanaka
30 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: nanny state, zoning
Buzz from the Beehive There’s plenty to raise a Health Minister’s blood pressure. Take – for example – news that Health New Zealand spent $72 million on contractors and consultants for a single IT project, in the lead-up to moving to get rid of over 1000 positions for IT employees. One recruitment company alone, Robert […]
So that’s what gets Reti riled – a National Public Health Service submission against McDonald’s setting up shop in Wanaka
The Great Enrichment
30 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: creative destruction, The Great Enrichment
Vaccines
30 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, cranks, vaccines
Did COP29 Delegates Trade Intimate Dinner Dates for Food?
29 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate activists
“… I have been low-key surviving off lunch and dinner date invites from my male global north friends who can afford it here. …”
Did COP29 Delegates Trade Intimate Dinner Dates for Food?
Time for Starmer to Be Honest About What Net Zero Means: Rationing, Blackouts and Travel Restrictions in the Next Five Years
29 Nov 2024 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood Definitely worth a read: Earlier this week the Labour backbencher and Chairman of the U.K. Parliament’s Energy Committee Bill Esterson noted that people will have to adjust their habits to meet Net Zero emission goals for 2030. Such honesty, emerging as it does from the Parliament of Net Zero nodding […]
Time for Starmer to Be Honest About What Net Zero Means: Rationing, Blackouts and Travel Restrictions in the Next Five Years
Marc Andreesen Gives Examples of Fascism
29 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: regressive left
Marc Andreessen is not as well known now as he was at the dawn of the Interwbbby age when he developed the world’s first widely used web browser that had a graphic interface, Mosaic, which was rapidly copied by everybody else. From that success he leveraged it into co-founding Netscape, whose software engineers contributed important Web […]
Marc Andreesen Gives Examples of Fascism
Jay Bhattacharya at the NIH
29 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, economics of pandemics
Trump has announced the appointment, so it is worth thinking through a few matters. While much of the chatter is about the Great Barrington Declaration, I would note that Bhattacharya has a history of focusing on the costs of obesity. So perhaps we can expect more research funding for better weight loss drugs, in addition […]
Jay Bhattacharya at the NIH
Sinn Fein’s links to PLO,Hamas,ETA and of course IRA and other terrorist organisations.
29 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: Northern Ireland
High mileage electric car usage is working out almost twice as expensive as petrol
29 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: electric cars
By Paul Homewood Not a happy chappy! Recently, a family illness was a force majeure and the Civic was being serviced so the Ford was the only transport. Unfortunately, no amount of planning could avoid bank-holiday travel and the armada of electric vehicles needing to charge. It looked as though Gridserve hadn’t done […]
High mileage electric car usage is working out almost twice as expensive as petrol
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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