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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Climate lawfare by carbophobes again. ‘The ball is in your court, Prime Minister’. At the same time the Scottish Nationalists have reported the PM to the police over comments in his conference speech. – – – Chris Packham has sent a legal challenge to the Prime Minister over his decision to delay the phase-out of […]
Chris Packham issues legal challenge against Rishi Sunak
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
When disaster threatens the rational retreat, but the clown soldiers on and even doubles down, accelerating the race to oblivion. Facts are treated with contempt; reality with derision. So it is with the grand wind and solar transition. It’s a disease of the mind that allows for the belief that a first world economy can […]
Lunacy Unplugged: Renewable Energy Debacle Proves Clowns Are Clearly In Charge
07 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has caused another stir by suggesting that the millions of Trump supporters may require a “formal deprogramming” in a CNN interview. It was a moment clearly enjoyed by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, who previously suggested that the FBI should have stopped Trump from making certain campaign statements. Even former FBI […]
Deprogramming “Deplorables”: Clinton Raises Need for “Formal Deprogramming” of Trump Supporters
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This is an object lesson not only in the pollution of science by ideology, but also in how to make a fool of yourself by not learning about other areas of science before you pronounce on them. A reader affiliated with a UK earth-sciences department sent me a letter circulated around that department, but it’s […]
Group of “science-savvy” UK liberals urge denial of the sex binary
07 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, history of economic thought, industrial organisation Tags: competition and monopoly, competition law
Tweet… is from page 5 of Gabriel Kolko’s 1963 book, The Triumph of Conservatism: Contrary to the consensus of historians, it was not the existence of monopoly that caused the federal government to intervene in the economy [in the late 19th and early 20th centuries], but the lack of it. DBx: Market competition is astonishingly…
Quotation of the Day…
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economic history, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage
06 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
“All armies get it wrong at the beginning; the question is who adapts fastest.” (British military historian Michael Howard quoted by Elliot Cohen, page 100) ‘All Americans make promises but nothing ever happens.’ Iraqi housewife complaining why there was still sewage in the street outside her house 5 years after the Americans invaded and promised […]
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006 to 2008 (2009)
06 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
The significance of the title of Emperor in Western Europe. From the time of Roman Emperor Constantine I (r. 306–337), the Roman Emperors had, with very few exceptions, taken on a role as promoters and defenders of Christianity. The reign of Constantine established a precedent for the position of the Christian Emperor in the Church. Emperors […]
The Title of Tsar. Part II.
06 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
I still hope that NZ looks over in horror at Canada and pulls back from making it risky for platforms to link to news.Facebook’s clearly decided that being in news just isn’t worth the aggro. Look at this. Facebook referrals to top global news sites dropped from 120 million per month to about 20 million…
…and make the platforms pay for it
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
05 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
… and the results are statistically disastrous. Summary of three pieces on Economist Melissa Kearney’s Research Freakonomics Radio: When did marriage become a luxury good? Related: Why Did You Marry That Person? (Replay) Related: Why Does the Richest Country in the World Have So Many Poor Kids? (Update) Related: The Fracking Boom, a Baby Boom, and the Retreat From…
US leads the world in single-parent households…
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The title of Tsar (alternatively Czar, Tzar or Csar) was a title used by Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word Caesar. Caesar was a Cognomen which was the third name of a citizen of ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions. Initially, a Cognomen was a nickname, but lost that purpose when […]
The Title of Tsar. Part I.
05 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
A few weeks ago, just before I went away for 10 days holiday, the latest in the saga of the Reserve Bank MPC, and the blackball on external experts when the first MPC appointments were made, appeared in the Herald. You’ll recall that it was widely understood that there had been such a blackball, put […]
MPC appointments, past and future
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