Here is a nice video on the experience with price control in Ireland and Scotland. Hat tip: Marginal Revolution
Gaelic Price Control
Gaelic Price Control
05 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, Public Choice, urban economics Tags: rent control
The Climate Fix Summarized in 10 Minutes
05 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Government’s War on Dishwashers
05 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
Bureaucrats must have a knee-jerk desire to make citizens miserable. That’s the most logical explanation for their various initiatives to lower our quality of life. Inferior light bulbs Substandard toilets Inadequate washing machines Dribbling showers Dysfunctional gas cans Crummy dishwashers The existence of gas stoves Let’s focus on one of those examples today. George Will […]
Government’s War on Dishwashers
Political Power Shift: More Voters Refuse to Swallow Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Lie
04 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: climate activists, solar power, wind power
Opening a crushing power bill while sitting freezing (or boiling) in the dark focuses attention on the obvious and only cause: heavily subsidised and hopelessly intermittent wind and solar. Delivered according to the whims of mother nature rather than the demands of human industry, activity and endeavour, wind and solar power were never going to […]
Political Power Shift: More Voters Refuse to Swallow Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Lie
Climate alarmism
04 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: air pollution, climate alarmism, indoor air pollution, life expectancies
DON BRASH: PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT SPEECH FROM THE NEW GOVERNMENT SO FAR
03 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, regulation, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: land supply, zoning
Last week, Housing Minister Chris Bishop gave perhaps the most important speech by the new Government since the election. In a speech to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, he said he wanted the ratio of house prices to median household income to more than halve to between 3 and 5 over the next 10…
DON BRASH: PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT SPEECH FROM THE NEW GOVERNMENT SO FAR
ELLIOT IKILEI: Why I am joining Hobson’s Pledge
03 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
We thought some good news wouldn’t go amiss. The following content speaks for itself. Just a quick note to introduce myself as the newest member of the Hobson’s Pledge team. A quick bit about myself: I am a husband, dad, and proud New Zealander. I have ancestors from Niue, England, and Tonga, and I hail…
ELLIOT IKILEI: Why I am joining Hobson’s Pledge
No, the Court is Not “Slow Walking” the Trump Immunity Case
03 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Below is a slightly expanded version of my column on Fox.com on the attacks on the Court for granting review of the immunity challenge brought by former president Donald Trump. The scheduling of oral argument has unleashed the familiar voices against the justices and allegations of political machinations. The claims of “slow walking” the appeal […]
No, the Court is Not “Slow Walking” the Trump Immunity Case
Germany’s Unstable Power Grid…Coal Plants Will Be Needed “For A Very Long Time”
03 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: coal power, Germany, wind power
At the end of the article, Haferburg comes to the conclusion that we will continue to see coal-fired power plants in operation for a very long time.
Germany’s Unstable Power Grid…Coal Plants Will Be Needed “For A Very Long Time”
The New York Times, reporting on a shooting in Vermont, gratuitously incites hatred against Israel
03 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
It’s taken me a while to fathom how anti-Israeli (or even antisemitic) the New York Times is, but the article below exemplifies this bias, which constantly leaks into the paper’s news reporting and non-op-ed stories. In fact, I find that the Times of Israel gives more accurate information about the war than does the NYT. […]
The New York Times, reporting on a shooting in Vermont, gratuitously incites hatred against Israel
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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