Queensland’s long reigning premier Annastacia Palaszczuk may have cut and run in the face of negative polls and a looming election, but her successor’s plan to accelerate coal job losses will help?
Aussie Coal State Premier Promotes the End of Coal
Aussie Coal State Premier Promotes the End of Coal
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Australia, coal power
Wind Curtailment Costs To Rise To £3 Billion By 2030
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: wind power

By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness It appears that the BBC will print any nonsense it is handed by the renewable/climate lobby: Wasted wind power will add £40 to the average UK household’s electricity bill in 2023, according to a think tank.
Wind Curtailment Costs To Rise To £3 Billion By 2030
The Worst Journalism of 2023
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, development economics, economic history, fiscal policy, growth disasters, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: Argentina

Writing about the economic tragedy of Argentina, I’ve explained that one major problem is inflation, thanks to that country’s version of “modern monetary theory.” This is not a trivial problem. Here’s a chart, from a recent report by Reuters, showing how prices have been rising for nearly 10 years and skyrocketing for the past three […]
The Worst Journalism of 2023
Holiday safety advice
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health and safety, labour economics

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Turmoil in Russia – The Assassination of Rasputin I THE GREAT WAR Week 127
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Meat Made Us Human
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: vegetarianism

Humans are now in the optimal position of growing grain to feed animals to produce meat.
Meat Made Us Human
Bari Weiss on why DEI must be dismantled
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left

In this 20-minute video, Bari Weiss makes two points. First, the testimony of the MIT, Harvard, and Penn Presidents before a House committee was antisemitic and reprehensible, and reflects a widespread lack of “moral leadership” in universities. Second, this moral leadership requires the elimination of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education. Weiss […]
Bari Weiss on why DEI must be dismantled
190308 [Webinar] Consistent Economic Policy and Economic Development
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, defence economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of information, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, fisheries economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, inflation targeting, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice, public economics, unemployment
Friedman and Schwartz agreed with Anderson, Tollison and Shughart on the public choice origins of the Great Contraction!
28 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, great depression, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: monetary policy



Beijing Breaks Seven Decade Cold Weather Record
28 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: China
I wonder how their solar panels and frost sensitive EVs are working out for them?
Beijing Breaks Seven Decade Cold Weather Record
DON BRASH: The new government has one helluva a task in front of it: Compulsory indoctrination is unworthy of professional bodies
28 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: consititutional law, political correctness, regressive left
The other day, I became aware of another example of the way in which the last Government tried to embed its own narrow interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi into every aspect of New Zealand life. This one involves the Real Estate Authority. Like many similar bodies, it encourages its authorized agents to get…
DON BRASH: The new government has one helluva a task in front of it: Compulsory indoctrination is unworthy of professional bodies
28 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: Australia, economics of languages
The Great Enrichment
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in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child mortality, life expectancies, The Great Escape

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Investors Are Turning on A Key Pillar of Biden’s Climate Agenda
27 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming
“I think the investor class has grown weary of the industry’s lack of profitability,” Blink Charging’s CEO Brendan Jones told the WSJ. EV charging companies once received lofty valuations from investors, Jones told the WSJ. The post Investors Are Turning on A Key Pillar of Biden’s Climate Agenda first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Investors Are Turning on A Key Pillar of Biden’s Climate Agenda

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