Graham Adams writes: A week before election day, TVNZ’s John Campbell went to a polling station in Ōtara, South Auckland, to lie in wait for voters. When he encountered a young Māori woman who was about to vote for the first time, his trademark gushiness was unleashed: “Mere is nineteen. She speaks fluent te reo […]
Does learning te reo make you virtuous?
Does learning te reo make you virtuous?
14 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: economics of languages
Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman 11/13/23
14 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, great depression, history of economic thought, labour economics, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
Europe’s Largest Wind Farm Facing Bankruptcy
13 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public More bad news for the wind industry:. https://twitter.com/IntermittentNRG/status/1723692080801710475 What is different about this one is that the PPA forces the wind farm to buy power on the spot market, when the wind does not provide enough:
Europe’s Largest Wind Farm Facing Bankruptcy
Sen. Sanders said he doesn’t know that a ceasefire is possible with Hamas. Hamas must go.
13 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
And you can get on your bike with this green claptrap
13 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics Tags: climate activists
Police versus Prisons
13 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of crime, Gary Becker, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice
Here’s a remarkable graph from the Council of Economic Advisers report on incarceration and the criminal justice system. The graph shows that the United States employs many more prison guards per-capita than does the rest of the world. Given our prison population that isn’t surprising. What is surprising is that on a per-capita basis we employ 35% […]
Police versus Prisons
Germany’s Monumental Wind & Solar Power Fail Delivers Total Economic Disaster
13 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Ideological experiments come in all shapes and sizes, but Germany’s wind and solar craze is monumental – a monumental environmental, economic and social disaster, to put it mildly. Suffering routine power rationing, mass blackouts and Europe’s highest power prices is only just the pointy end of what Germany’s boffins called the ‘Energiewende’, which was touted […]
Germany’s Monumental Wind & Solar Power Fail Delivers Total Economic Disaster
Bobby Fischer vs Mark Taimanov | World Championship Match – 1/4 Final, 1971
13 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in chess
Why Germany Lost the First World War (Documentary)
11 Nov 2023 1 Comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Econ Duel: Is Education Signaling or Skill Building?
11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: signaling
Washington Post removes cartoon because it was offensive—to Hamas
11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Both the New York Post (in an editorial-board opinion piece) and the Free Press‘s Nellie Bowles, in her TGIF column this week, report that this political cartoon appeared in the Washington Post, but then was taken down by the editor. It was drawn by Pulitzer-Prize winner Michael Ramirez: Of course it satirizes Hamas’s tactic of […]
Washington Post removes cartoon because it was offensive—to Hamas
Why Is There Divergence Between the United States and Europe?
11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in business cycles, currency unions, economic growth, macroeconomics
In economics, convergence theory is the common-sense observation that poor countries – in general – should grow faster than rich countries. But a general principle sometimes has exceptions, and that’s why I put together my anti-convergence club. If you look at members of that club, you’ll notice that when rich countries grow faster than poor […]
Why Is There Divergence Between the United States and Europe?
The myth of cheap offshore wind has been exposed
11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
By Paul Homewood London, 10 November – Net Zero Watch is calling for an investigation after it was reported that ministers are considering doubling the guaranteed prices on offer for offshore windfarms next year to between £70 and £75/MWh. The news comes after this year’s auction failed to attract any bids from offshore wind […]
The myth of cheap offshore wind has been exposed
Bari Weiss proposes ending DEI
11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: affirmative action, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination
Bari Weiss, head of the Free Press, just published this article on her website, but it appeared in Tablet, in identical form, a few days ago. You can click on the headline below to read it, or go here to see it on her site. As the subheader on her FP article says, “It’s not […]
Bari Weiss proposes ending DEI
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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