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New Rule: What’s the Matter with Grandma? | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
27 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
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Climate “Communicators” Discover the Best Way to Persuade Voters is to Lie to Them
26 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, transport economics Tags: electric cars
This is a hilarious X (formerly Twitter) thread on a presentation about “messaging over climate”. Worst messages tested: electric cars, Green New Deal, frontline communities, ‘Big Oil lied’, climate pollution Talking about electric cars especially deadly for Democrats. Women in particular frightened of battery running out. (Interesting gendered spin on range anxiety I hadn’t thought […]
Climate “Communicators” Discover the Best Way to Persuade Voters is to Lie to Them
Wash Post Editorial Board Denounces ‘De-Growth Communism’ – ‘Ending Growth Won’t Save the Planet’
26 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters Tags: climate activists, cranks
Degrowth’s prophets offer little more than hand-waving in response to the most elementary questions about their prescription.
Wash Post Editorial Board Denounces ‘De-Growth Communism’ – ‘Ending Growth Won’t Save the Planet’
When life imitates comedy: FTC’s Amazon Flip Flop
26 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Ronald Coase Tags: competition law
Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase once quipped that he left antitrust because “When prices go up, its monopolization, when prices fall it’s predation, and when they stay the same it’s collusion.” As if to illustrate this idea, the FTC’s Chair is reversing herself to bring a case against Amazon. On one hand, booksellers argue that Amazon…
When life imitates comedy: FTC’s Amazon Flip Flop
Extinction Rebellion Dweebs Get Shutdown Quickly on The PGA Tour
25 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, sports economics Tags: cranks
Climate Activists from Extinction Rebellion Set off Smoke Bombs as they STORM THE GREEN at the 18th Hole of the PGA Tour as SCOTTIE SCHEFFLERS was finishing his game.
Extinction Rebellion Dweebs Get Shutdown Quickly on The PGA Tour
“Seasonal” Renewable Output Fail Bites Australia
25 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
“… seasonal lulls in wind and solar output has led to a big increase in the amount of gas being burnt to produce electricity. …”
“Seasonal” Renewable Output Fail Bites Australia
Do not stifle supply and then subsidize demand
25 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: offsetting behavior, unintended consequences
That phrasing comes from Arnold Kling, right? It is also the topic of my latest Bloomberg column. Here is one bit: Unfortunately, the US already was setting a bad example for the British. Recent plans from the Biden administration called for a broadly similar approach to housing policy, namely subsidizing demand. Earlier this year, Biden called for […]
Do not stifle supply and then subsidize demand
Huge Percentage Of EV Owners Want To Go Back To Normal Cars, Study Finds
24 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics Tags: electric cars
Nearly half of American electric vehicle (EV) owners want to buy an internal combustion engine model the next time they buy a car, according to a new study from McKinsey and Company, a leading consulting firm.
Huge Percentage Of EV Owners Want To Go Back To Normal Cars, Study Finds
Guest Post: Funding Infrastructure
24 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, transport economics, urban economics
A guest post by Gary Lindsay responding to the speech by Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop: Chris Bishop’s speech regarding infrastructure has been a long time coming. It’s great that a government is finally serious about the massive infrastructure deficit that has been building since the major (necessary) cuts in 1984. Correcting a 40 year infrastructure […]
Guest Post: Funding Infrastructure
Climate Activists Are Wrong About Which Energy Source Reduces Air Pollution
24 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Adoption of gas fuels did more to reduce air pollution over the last 60 years than any other energy source. Gas consumption will continue to rise for decades to come.
Climate Activists Are Wrong About Which Energy Source Reduces Air Pollution
European Newspaper Says Citizens Better Get Used To Not Having Electricity All The Time
24 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
One of the biggest newspapers in the Netherlands is warning its readers that Dutch citizens should get accustomed to the notion that electricity will not always be available to them in the future.
European Newspaper Says Citizens Better Get Used To Not Having Electricity All The Time
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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