Ireland’s Corporate Tax and the Laffer Curve
19 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
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
‘Green’ Energy’s Demand For Rare Earths Driving Wholesale Environmental Destruction
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
Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq by Rory Stewart (2007)
18 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
‘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)
Losing The Working Class.
18 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
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.
18 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, Karl Popper, liberalism Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
The T-34: The Greatest Tank of WW2?
18 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Soda Taxes Are Wrong, but Not Educating Kids is Worse
18 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
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
New Evidence May Destroy Biden’s Defense in his Classified Documents Case
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
Poland 2023 (and, more briefly, Slovakia)
17 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
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)
Norwegian archaeologists are salvaging priceless artifacts from melting glaciers—why were they found there?
17 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
An earlier article, featured here at the Talkshop said ‘artifacts have come to light thanks to a warming climate, proving that a mountain pass served as an important trade network’. We’re told ‘The pass was in use between the years 300 and 1500 AD, and most active around the year 1000. Its use declined with […]
Norwegian archaeologists are salvaging priceless artifacts from melting glaciers—why were they found there?
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