Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in business cycles, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: monetary policy
Monday’s post was on the important place effective accountability must have when government agencies are given great discretionary power which – as is in the nature of any human institutions – they will at times exercise poorly. My particular focus is on the Reserve Bank, both because it is what I know best, because it […]
What should be done about the Reserve Bank?
19 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
I got this Algemeiner link from reader Norm, who added: Far-left representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives are calling for a cease fire in “occupied Palestine.” These representatives seem not to understand that Gaza has been a self-governing entity since 2005–occupied by Hamas. Or, perhaps they do know this and are referring the entire […]
“Progressives” introduce cease-fire bill aimed at Israel and “Occupied Palestine”
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in economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: taxation and investment
About 15 years ago, I narrated a three-part series on the Laffer Curve. Here’s Part II, which looks at real-world evidence. About halfway through the video (3:15-3:55), I discuss what happened when Ireland dramatically lowered its corporate tax rate. The net result was an increase in tax revenue. But not just by a small amount. […]
Ireland’s Corporate Tax and the Laffer Curve
19 Oct 2023 1 Comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
Solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles all critically depend upon a raft of minerals known as ‘rare earths’, as well as mountains of copper and cobalt. With the exponential increase in demand for minerals comes an exponential growth in the mountains of toxic filth left behind during mining and processing those minerals. The minerals […]
‘Green’ Energy’s Demand For Rare Earths Driving Wholesale Environmental Destruction
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‘If you put my cousin on the council, I will slit his throat.’ (Typical threat from an Iraqi sheikh, Occupational Hazards, page 231) Rory Stewart Stewart (born 1973) is posh. He comes from a family of Scottish landed gentry. Like lots of poshos born into a family which helped administer the last shreds of empire, […]
Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq by Rory Stewart (2007)
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Workers’ Power. The power of the NZ working-class reached its zenith in 1974, when 10,000 workers marched in protest at the Drivers Union leader, Bill Andersen’s, arrest – and secured his freedom. The Labour Government of Norman Kirk was frightened of the organised working-class then. Fifty years later, there’s precious little left of the private…
Losing The Working Class.
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in economics of education, Karl Popper, liberalism Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
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I wrote more than four years ago about a misguided soda tax in Philadelphia. This video from John Stossel updates us on what’s happened. As usual, John makes good points I’m especially amazed that he was able to get an overpaid local politician to go on camera to defend such an indefensible levy. And it […]
Soda Taxes Are Wrong, but Not Educating Kids is Worse
17 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA
Below is my column in The Hill on new evidence released by the House Oversight Committee challenging the account of President Joe Biden and the White House on the discovery of classified material in various locations. If the earlier search included these classified documents, the new timeline will shatter the long-standing claims of the President. […]
New Evidence May Destroy Biden’s Defense in his Classified Documents Case
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Poland held its general election for both parliamentary chambers yesterday, 15 October. An alliance of parties opposed to the incumbent Law and Justice party (PiS) has won. In the voting for the first chamber (Sejm) PiS retains a plurality but is down to 36.4% of the votes (per Wikipedia with around 90% reporting). Civic Coalition, […]
Poland 2023 (and, more briefly, Slovakia)
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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