‘Africa for Africans’ ‘In Africa, the African is supreme’ (p.230) (Mugabe slogans) ‘This is not about correcting a colonial imbalance. This is about punishing your enemies and rewarding your friends. This is about staying in power no matter what the damage is to your country or its economy.’ (Philemon Matibe, MDC i.e. Zimbabwe opposition candidate, […]
Mugabe: Power, Plunder and the Struggle for Zimbabwe by Martin Meredith (2007)
Mugabe: Power, Plunder and the Struggle for Zimbabwe by Martin Meredith (2007)
17 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Zimbabwe
The Disqualification of Donald Trump and Other Legal Urban Legends
17 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is a slightly expanded version of my column in The Hill on the increasingly popular theory that former president Donald Trump is already barred from office under the 14th Amendment. It is a theory that, in my view, has a political appeal that outstrips its constitutional support. In a constitution designed to protect free […]
The Disqualification of Donald Trump and Other Legal Urban Legends
ELE LUDEMANN: Does reset need a referendum?
17 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: constitution law
Act wants a referendum to define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. The principles do need redefining and that redefinition will almost certainly result in a reset that reverses a lot of the insertion of the undefined principles in areas which many think have nothing to do with the Treaty. It is 23 years […]
ELE LUDEMANN: Does reset need a referendum?
Out of Africa
17 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: Africa
My Conversation with the excellent Jennifer Burns
17 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, business cycles, economics of education, Euro crisis, F.A. Hayek, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode description: Jennifer Burns is a professor history at Stanford who works at the intersection of intellectual, political, and cultural history. She’s written two biographies Tyler highly recommends: her 2009 book, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and her latest, Milton Friedman: The […]
My Conversation with the excellent Jennifer Burns
BLOOD AND IRON: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE 1871-1918 by Katja Hoyer
17 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: Germany
(German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck) It might surprise most of you that Germany has only been a country since 1871. By the mid-19th century Germany was a series of states, thirty nine to be exact. The dominant principalities were Prussia and Bavaria, one dominated the Lutheran north, the other the Catholic south. The question must […]
BLOOD AND IRON: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE 1871-1918 by Katja Hoyer
US Watchdog Has Grim Winter Warning: There May Be Blackouts
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
If it’s climate obsession versus reality in US power supplies, there can only be one winner. Strong opposition to new gas pipelines plus increasing reliance on intermittent renewables can only end badly for consumers of power. – – – As much as two-thirds of the United States could experience blackouts in peak winter weather this […]
US Watchdog Has Grim Winter Warning: There May Be Blackouts
Aggressive Chess Opening for Black Against 1.d4 [Every Move Is A TRAP]
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in chess
Michigan Court Rejects Effort to Disqualify Donald Trump
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
We have been discussing the nationwide effort to disqualify former President Donald Trump from ballots in key states under a novel theory using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Yesterday, a Michigan judge was the latest to dismiss the effort to prevent voters from being able to vote for Trump. As many of you know,…
Michigan Court Rejects Effort to Disqualify Donald Trump
‘Time’s finally up’: Impending Iceland eruption is part of centuries-long volcanic pulse
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of natural disasters
The headline obviously raises the question of the origin of such a pulse and of its suggested frequency. On the other hand a damp squib (from a spectator point of view) can’t be ruled out entirely at this stage, although some of the cracks already appearing on the surface do look quite large and other […]
‘Time’s finally up’: Impending Iceland eruption is part of centuries-long volcanic pulse
Big Green in trouble – German version
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: atomic energy, Germany, wind power
A number of folk have been waiting impatiently for the contradictions of consensus climate policy to become undeniably apparent. What’s happening in Germany might fit the bill. Germany’s ruling Socialist-Liberal-Green coalition shut down the last of the country’s operating nuclear reactors in April in line with their agreed policy. They overrode calls for a reversal […]
Big Green in trouble – German version
Quantity theory of money, or fiscal theory of the price level?
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, history of economic thought, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights Tags: monetary policy, Somalia
The rebel-controlled Yemeni rial is made up entirely of a fixed supply of notes printed prior to 2016. In the chart below you can see it appreciating in value (the blue line) against the dollar, issued by the world’s most powerful state. pic.twitter.com/vioXHmz2wQ — John Paul Koning (@jp_koning) November 15, 2023
Quantity theory of money, or fiscal theory of the price level?
Phony Nitrogen Crisis for Making War on Farmers
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: Canada
A war against farmers has emerged, threatening to push them off the land they’ve farmed for generations. As small and mid-sized farms close their doors, governments and corporate entities can scoop up the land. Those in control of the land control the food supply and, along with it, the people. In Canada, Trudeau’s Liberals have […]
Phony Nitrogen Crisis for Making War on Farmers
Rent-Seekers Retreat: Grand Wind & Solar Transition Faces Total Collapse
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
The smart money is banking on the wind and solar industries’ total collapse; the smartest money was never invested in the greatest Ponzi scheme of all time. With subsidised wind and solar looking more like a house of cards, dozens of grand standing projects are being unceremoniously dumped. The potential investors targeted by their proponents […]
Rent-Seekers Retreat: Grand Wind & Solar Transition Faces Total Collapse
“The Best Years of Our Lives”
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in movies
This is one of the best American movies ever made, and it’s free—in its entirety—on YouTube. Here’s the Wikipedia summary: The Best Years of Our Lives (also known as Glory for Me and Home Again) is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell. The film is about three United States servicemen re-adjusting to societal changes […]
“The Best Years of Our Lives”
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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