Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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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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in cricket
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The New York Times and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) have long denounced disinformation on social media and called for censorship of those spreading false information. They and various other media outlets now find themselves accused of immediately spreading false images and accounts of the recent explosion at the hospital in Gaza. The NYT picture […]
Are Rep. Tlaib, the New York Times, and Other Media Guilty of Disinformation on the Hospital “Strike”?
25 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in the New York Post on the Associated Press guideline for reporters to avoid calling Hamas a terrorist organization. Voice of America and other media outlets have made the same decision. This is not about supporting the Palestinian cause. It is about correctly describing a group that commits terrorist attacks as…
Yes, Hamas is Legally, Morally, and Factually a Terrorist Organization
25 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Afghanistan, war against terror
Before the British burst onto the scene, Helmand was ‘stable’ in the sense that there was almost no Taliban presence and little prospect of any. After three years of British presence, the province was the most savage combat zone in the world. With British forces and their commanders out of their depth, it was only […]
Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain’s Afghan War by Frank Ledwidge (2013)
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The Peace of Westphalia is the collective name for two peace treaties signed on October 24, 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. They ended the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) and brought peace to the Holy Roman Empire, closing a calamitous period of European history. Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, the kingdoms of […]
October 24, 1648: The Peace of Westphalia
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in global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: Another episode frequently cited as evidence against economists is the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Economists did make some mistakes on that one — but they are not the ones you usually hear about. When real estate prices started to slow down and then […]
What is it we do and do not know about macroeconomics?
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This recent post by Steve Williamson explains, far better than I did, why no more conventional stimulus is needed in the US. It’s an argument that carries over fairly neatly to the UK. And the sort of analysis that confronts head on calls for the authorities to pump up demand by the likes of Paul […]
Steve Williamson, the recession, and New Keynesian economics
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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The truth about the great wind power fraud - we're not here to debate the wind industry, we're here to destroy it.
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