The Kings Gambit: Bobby Fischer vs Dragoljub Minic – Vinkovci (1968)
29 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
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Week 261 – The Liberation of Paris – WW2 – August 26, 1944
29 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Japan’s population decline is both a crisis and an opportunity
28 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
New Zealand’s Population Conference is on in Auckland this week, so population issues have been on my mind. In the past, I’ve written about population decline in Japan. Things have escalated since that earlier post, as the Guardian reported last month:Every one of Japan’s 47 prefectures posted a population drop in 2022, while the total number…
Japan’s population decline is both a crisis and an opportunity
Hitting Net Zero
28 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Pretty simple actually for the planet actually, as the following graph shows: 8,500 coal plants need to stop burning coal.We stop driving 1.4 billion cars.Planes stop flying 100,000 times a day.Stop eating tens of billions of animals per year.Stop shipping stuff. Yeah. That’ll happen. Incidentally, as a sort of follow-up to the previous post on […]
Hitting Net Zero
How 30,000 Industrial Wind Turbines Have Wrecked Germany’s Environment
28 Aug 2023 2 Comments
Germany has been overrun with 30,000 giant industrial wind turbines and millions of solar panels. Its climate cult reckons that the wholesale environmental destruction wreaked so far is all about saving the planet. It’s an argument that holds all the logic of amputating an entire leg to prevent a septic toe from doing any further damage […]
How 30,000 Industrial Wind Turbines Have Wrecked Germany’s Environment
What have the Romans ever done for us?
28 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history Tags: British history, Roman empire
Creative destruction
28 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, television
Yes, Trump was Seeking Another Recount or Investigation in Georgia: A Response to the Washington Post
28 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Below is an expanded version of my Hill column on the Georgia call at the center of the recent indictment and the attack in the Washington Post by columnist Philip Bump, someone I have repeatedly criticized in the past for false and misleading stories. The column attacked me for suggesting that the Georgia call was […]
Yes, Trump was Seeking Another Recount or Investigation in Georgia: A Response to the Washington Post
Interview with James Gwartney: Personal Choices and Public Choice
27 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Mitchell List and Kurt Schuler serve as interlocutors in “An Interview with James D. Gwartney on His Life and Work in Economics” (August 2023 (Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise, SAE #238, August 2023). The interview offers an in-depth overview of his pathway to and within economics.…
Interview with James Gwartney: Personal Choices and Public Choice
The Five Nation Army – The Salonica Front Erupts I THE GREAT WAR Week 109
27 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Almanac: Charles Ponzi and his “Ponzi Scheme”
27 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics
Why the House Has No Alternative to an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden
26 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in The Messenger on the expanding evidence in the Biden corruption scandal and the need for Congress to take commensurate action to investigate the matter. After this column ran, Fox’s Brian Kilmeade conducted an interview with Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. What was striking about the interview is not just the […]
Why the House Has No Alternative to an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden
Why are Gender Pay Gaps so Large in Japan and South Korea?
26 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
From Alice Evans: Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan are closing gender gaps in pay, seniority and parliamentary representation. Japan and South Korea, meanwhile, have the largest gender pay gaps in the OECD. Management remains 85% male. Female graduates are treated like secretaries, expected to pour the tea and run errands. In Japan, a female graduate earns the same as a man […]
Why are Gender Pay Gaps so Large in Japan and South Korea?
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