The Housing Theory of Everything has one of those wonderful self-explanatory titles. A good title matters. The recent and thorough essay explains how the anglosphere’s unnecessarily expensive housing affects, well, everything. Or at least almost everything.Zoning makes it too hard to build houses where people want to build. Urban containment policies block new subdivisions, so…
The Uncompetitive Urban Land Markets Theory of Everything
The Uncompetitive Urban Land Markets Theory of Everything
03 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, regulation, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
Europe’s Consensus on Climate Is Crumbling
03 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
What is happening all over Europe is the first organized revolt against the green agenda.
Europe’s Consensus on Climate Is Crumbling
PETER WILLIAMS: RIP Newshub
03 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, survivor principle Tags: media bias
Could anything have saved it? The real surprise is not that Newshub is going under but that it’s lasted this long. TV 3 started broadcasting in November 1989, almost 35 years ago. It was a different era. There was no Sky, no digital platforms and the new kid on the block was going head to head…
PETER WILLIAMS: RIP Newshub
CALLUM PURVES: National preparing to keep Labour’s 15% App Tax
03 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in fiscal policy, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand, public economics
Labour’s App Tax is a 15% sales tax paid for by the mum and dad accommodation providers, takeaway joints, and ride share drivers. The App Tax hits sole-traders who sell their services through an app or website such as Uber or Airbnb. It will add even more to the costs of living for every Kiwi…
CALLUM PURVES: National preparing to keep Labour’s 15% App Tax
Did Bush Lie About Iraq?
02 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Atomic weapons, Iraq
A Lesson In Anti-Colle System | No Pawn Lost | Rubinstein vs Blumenfeld…
02 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in chess
IPCC’s New “Hockey Stick” Temperature Graph
02 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published their latest assessment report (AR6) in 2021. In 2023, the Clintel Foundation published a report which criticizes AR6.
IPCC’s New “Hockey Stick” Temperature Graph
Conrad Loses His Job – Nivelle’s Coup I THE GREAT WAR Week 136
02 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
The Controversial Episodes of Dad’s Army That Will Never Air Again
02 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in television, TV shows
ROBERT MacCULLOCH: Economics 101 explains why Newshub Bankrupted
02 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, market efficiency, politics - New Zealand, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: creative destruction
Economics 101 explains why Newshub Bankrupted – it was the fault of its own journalists who should recognize they were the architects of their own demise. A thousand books and papers in economics and business strategy are about the topic of product differentiation – ensuring that what you sell is different from others in order…
ROBERT MacCULLOCH: Economics 101 explains why Newshub Bankrupted
New York AG Sues Beef Producer
02 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, greenwashing
This is the latest in an increasing series of Greenwashing suits around the world. Some notable examples.
New York AG Sues Beef Producer
#climateemergency
02 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Europe’s Wind Industry Faces Total Oblivion & Slovakia Cans All Wind Projects
01 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
Europe’s wind industry is in its death throes. Denmark’s Ørsted share price plummeted 25% late last year, and after slashing dividends to shareholders was forced to write $billions off the projected value of its US offshore projects, and its share price is still heading south. Europe’s turbine manufacturers are bleeding cash and their shares will […]
Europe’s Wind Industry Faces Total Oblivion & Slovakia Cans All Wind Projects
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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