Does Government Debt Matter Anymore? | Perspectives On Policy
02 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics
John Lewis stops insuring electric cars over repair cost fears
01 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk And in yet more bad news for the EV rollout: John Lewis has stopped offering insurance to electric car drivers amid fears over the cost of repairs. The department store’s lending business John Lewis Financial Services has put a temporary pause on customers taking out cover or […]
John Lewis stops insuring electric cars over repair cost fears
MICHAEL BASSETT: HAPLESS HIPKINS AND HIS RACISM
01 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Without so much as batting an eyelid, Chris Hipkins told an audience on Saturday that there had been “more racism” in this election campaign than ever before. And he blamed it on the opposition parties, National, Act and New Zealand First. In those statements he indicated his unworthiness to be the Prime Minister of New…
MICHAEL BASSETT: HAPLESS HIPKINS AND HIS RACISM
Caturday felid trifecta: U.K.’s cat of the year; why cats love tuna; woman feeds Colorado State Fair cat daily for 20 years; and langiappe
01 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
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We’re back to Caturday Felids again, and let me know if you want this to continue, as I’m not sure people are that keen on Caturday felids, and it takes a bit of work. At any rate, we’ll have one today, at least. The Washington Post has a lovely story about an English woman, profoundly […]
Caturday felid trifecta: U.K.’s cat of the year; why cats love tuna; woman feeds Colorado State Fair cat daily for 20 years; and langiappe
Jesse Singal on Coleman Hughes vs. TED
01 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
By now most of us know that Coleman Hughes, a heterodox black thinker, got into trouble when he gave a preapproved TED talk echoing Martin Luther King’s “don’t judge a person by their skin color” trope. Hughes’s point wasn’t that we shouldn’t be aware of color, but what we need to do is concentrate on […]
Jesse Singal on Coleman Hughes vs. TED
Quotation of the Day…
01 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Tweet… is from page 29 of the 1981 edition of George Reisman’s translation of Ludwig von Mises’s 1933 tract, Epistemological Problems of Economics: Human action always confronts experience as a complex phenomenon that first must be analyzed and interpreted by a theory before it can even be set in the context of an hypothesis that…
Quotation of the Day…
Ten Reasons Why the Biden Impeachment Inquiry is Justified
01 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
There have been repeated references to the ten facts that I alluded to in my congressional testimony as establishing an ample basis to launch a formal impeachment inquiry. I have received emails asking about those ten developments so I wanted to post them. They are found in my written testimony, but I did not have […]
Ten Reasons Why the Biden Impeachment Inquiry is Justified
Death and popcorn
01 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
So Diane Feinstein did not make it to the political finish line of 2025. Suffering from numerous ailments, including senility, and often absent from the Senate, and having announced that she would retire at the end of this term, she finally died the other day at the age of 90. Despite attacks on her by […]
Death and popcorn
The Man Who Stole the Atomic Bomb – WW2 Documentary Special
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Atomic bomb, World War II
DON BRASH: WHY MY PARTY VOTE WILL BE GOING TO ACT
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
I don’t suppose anybody will be terribly surprised when I say that my party vote will be going to ACT on 14 October. I was a proud member of the National Party when I was in Parliament between 2002 and early 2007, and of course when I was Leader of that Party between late 2003…
DON BRASH: WHY MY PARTY VOTE WILL BE GOING TO ACT
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, population economics
That is a new JEP piece by Melissa S. Kearney, Phillip B. Levine, and Luke Pardue. The piece, while not easily summarized, is interesting throughout. Here is one bit: The decline in birth rates has been widespread across the country. Birth rates fell in every state over this period, except for North Dakota. One possible […]
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession
Ross Clark: Will Germany be the first to ditch its net zero commitments?
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood Which country will become the first to rat on its net zero target, to find some of putting it off, watering it down – or changing the definition of what counts? There must be a lot of money on it being Germany. Things are not going well in Germany’s bid to reach […]
Ross Clark: Will Germany be the first to ditch its net zero commitments?
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