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Of all places, Vanity Fair has a short but interesting discussion of the New York Times headline fracas! You may remember that when there was an explosion in a Gaza hospital on October 17, the NYT reported what Hamas told it: first that there was an Israeli airstrike and then, when that became less credible, […]
Vanity Fair reveals secret discussion at the NYT about using Hamas sources for headlines: “hedging” versus “attributing”
27 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: Despite the continuing war in the Middle East, most markets have been relatively calm. Stock exchanges have not plunged, while volatility appears manageable, indeed ordinary. If you were looking at just the markets (except for Israel’s), you might not even know there is a […]
What are markets telling us about the Middle Eastern war?
27 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell, urban economics Tags: gender wage gap, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
Matthew Lau reviews Thomas Sowell’s latest book Social Justice Fallacies in a Financial Post article: No sacred cows in Thomas Sowell’s takedown of social justice fallacies. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. In his latest book, renowned economist and author demolishes the myths that underpin the social justice movement. Thomas Sowell, age […]
Sowell Exposes Social Justice Fallacies
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
So much for all the cheap talk about wind power being cheap. Offshore wind power is so expensive it can’t attract a buyer. In the UK, the last round of the government’s annual auction – which awards 15-year contracts to wind and solar generators, taking their occasional produce at a set price – did not […]
No Bid: Offshore Wind Power Now So Expensive It Can’t Find Buyers
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in economics of bureaucracy, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice
On Saturday dozens of candidates for the governing Labour Party stood for election to Parliament. The aim was to form (at least a big part of) the next government. They didn’t succeed. People will debate for decades precisely what motivated the public as a whole to vote as we did, but having governed for the […]
Accountability
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
‘Green’ energy ideologues are terrified of mass blackouts; the moment when the proles work out the wind and solar transition is a monstrous lie. In Germany, the worship of intermittent wind and solar has all the hallmarks of a deranged cult. However, as with most cults, it’s a zealous few that end up driving a […]
Winter Blackout Threat Drives Germany to Fire-Up More Coal-Fired Power Plants
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in business cycles, economic growth, fiscal policy, international economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics
That was the title of a ten page piece published last week by the ANZ economics team (chief economist Sharon Zollner and one of her offsiders, who appears to be a temporary secondee from the Reserve Bank). You can find a link to the paper here. The gist is captured in the paper’s summary I […]
Finding external balance
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I don’t think I’ve analyzed this paper on my site, but, since it came out recently, it’s become well known among rational biologists for being tendentious, ideologically based, and largely incoherent, something you might intuit from its title. You can read it by clicking on the screenshot below: The paper’s object is to dismantle the […]
Jesse Singal takes apart a bad paper on sex
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From The Emperor’s Desk: On the anniversary of the accession of King George III upon the British throne, instead of doing a full biography of the king, I have decided to just concentrate on the titles that George inherited throughout his lifetime. George III (George William Frederick; June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) George […]
October 25, 1760: The Accession of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland.
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About a week ago, the Washington Post published, starting on its front page, a long article arguing that race is a purely social construct without reality or utility, and thus should be eliminated. The author Sydney Trent, is a science journalist who covers social issues, and that may explain why the article was replete with […]
My letter to the Washington Post on race
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