One of the greatest endgames of all time | Spassky vs Fischer (1972)
26 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in chess
Economic conundrums for Germany as top court cancels climate funding plan
25 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Germany
When might it occur to politicians, German or not, that endless subsidies to feed their own climate obsessions either come out of the same pot as the rest of their government’s income, or by pumping up national debt – or both? Looks like a road to nowhere, or nowhere good. – – – As Germany […]
Economic conundrums for Germany as top court cancels climate funding plan
LINDSAY MITCHELL: Oranga Tamariki faces major upheaval under coalition agreement
25 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
A hugely significant gain for ACT is somewhat camouflaged by legislative jargon. Under the heading ‘Oranga Tamariki’ ACT’s coalition agreement contains the following item: • Remove Section 7AA from the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 According to Oranga Tamariki: “Section 7AA is our practical commitment to the principles of the Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi.”…
LINDSAY MITCHELL: Oranga Tamariki faces major upheaval under coalition agreement
Pro Dollarization
25 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, monetary economics
With President Milei’s election in Argentina, dollarization is suddenly on the table. I’m for it. Here’s why. Why not? A standard of valueStart with “why not?” Dollarization, not a national currency, is actually a sensible default. The dollar is the US standard of value. We measure length in feet, weight in pounds, and the value of…
Pro Dollarization
Voters Reject Net-Zero Madness: Wind & Solar Transition Faces Serious Opposition
25 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Given the choice, power consumers would have rejected the wind and solar transition and the net-zero CO2 madness that underpins it, from the outset. At the heart of their new-found and growing hostility is the question of who benefits? And who pays? Having been repeatedly pounded with off-the-charts electricity bills, the great unwashed are starting […]
Voters Reject Net-Zero Madness: Wind & Solar Transition Faces Serious Opposition
No, Rashida Tlaib Should Not Be Sanctioned by the Michigan Bar
25 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
This month, the Coolidge Reagan Foundation has called upon the Michigan bar to investigate and sanction Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over her comments on Gaza and Israel. While I have been critical of Tlaib over her rhetoric and claims on the Hamas attack and later war, I believe that such sanctions would be inimical to […]
No, Rashida Tlaib Should Not Be Sanctioned by the Michigan Bar
The Death Of Franz Joseph – The End of The Somme I THE GREAT WAR Week 122
25 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Unscheduled Battery Blowups Turning Electric Vehicles Into Mobile Time Bombs
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health and safety, labour economics
The transition to electric vehicles is hardly going to plan: sales have collapsed in the US, EV manufacturers are bleeding cash and insurers are cranking up premiums to account for an uptick in the number of unscheduled battery blowups – aka ‘thermal runaways’. The vehicle doesn’t go anywhere, it simply self-immolates in a plume of […]
Unscheduled Battery Blowups Turning Electric Vehicles Into Mobile Time Bombs
The Geert Wilders victory, and more
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Wilders won resoundingly in the Netherlands, and polled much stronger after October 7. Yesterday there were anti-immigrant riots in Dublin, typically a relatively open city (most likely an Algerian migrant stabbed several people). The “far right” party in Austria is very popular, AfD is doing well in Germany, and France could flip. Italy already is […]
The Geert Wilders victory, and more
More tunnels under al-Shifa hospital: an embarrassment to the Western media and an indictment of NGOs
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Maybe I’m just cynical, but all the reports I saw in the liberal media, which includes the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Guardian, seemed positively gleeful that Israel couldn’t instantly uncover all the tunnels that the IDF claimed were under al-Shifa Hospital. If they couldn’t, the papers’ implications went, then Israel would […]
More tunnels under al-Shifa hospital: an embarrassment to the Western media and an indictment of NGOs
Breathtaking
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
You’ll remember during the election campaign how National (Willis and Luxon) repeatedly told us that their fiscal plans (notably the Back Pocket Boost giveaway plan) was fully funded. Whenever doubts were raised about the foreign buyers’ tax revenue estimates National (a) asserted full confidence in their numbers, and b) reiterated that their plan was…..fully funded. […]
Breathtaking
BRYCE EDWARDS: Court ruling shows big political donations can be given secretly
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Bryce Edwards writes – New Zealand’s rules to regulate money in politics can now officially be declared broken. Although, in theory, political parties are required to publicly declare any large donations, we now know that in practice they sometimes don’t, and the enforcement and legal consequences can be extremely weak. We know this because this […]
BRYCE EDWARDS: Court ruling shows big political donations can be given secretly
Professors: Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity are Not Essential to Higher Education
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
In “The Indispensable Right,” I discuss how academics are now leading an anti-free speech movement on campuses that challenges the centrality (or even the necessity) of free speech protections in higher education. The latest such argument appeared this month in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Professors: Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity are Not Essential to Higher Education
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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