Mythbusting: There’s No Way Wind & Solar Are Cheaper Than Coal & Gas
23 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
The fact that every country that’s increased reliance on wind and solar is suffering rocketing power prices is incontrovertible. And that simple relationship puts paid to the myth that wind and solar are cheaper than coal and gas, principally because it’s heavily subsidised wind and solar that are (occasionally) displacing coal and gas-fired power. When […]
Mythbusting: There’s No Way Wind & Solar Are Cheaper Than Coal & Gas
The Disqualification of Donald Trump and Other Legal Urban Legends
23 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Below is a slightly expanded version of my column in The Hill on the increasingly popular theory that former president Donald Trump is already barred from office under the 14th Amendment. It is a theory that, in my view, has a political appeal that outstrips its constitutional support. In a constitution designed to protect free […]
The Disqualification of Donald Trump and Other Legal Urban Legends
The World Chess Foundation Bars Transgender Women in Competitions
22 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in chess
The World Chess Foundation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its competitions for women. The decision by FIDE, the Switzerland-based federation, is perplexing and disturbing. FIDE is setting a two-year period for review. Frankly, I do not understand why there are male and female competitions in chess where relative strength is not an […]
The World Chess Foundation Bars Transgender Women in Competitions
Yet another poll puts Labour’s support below 30% as nation seeks saviour from economic woes
22 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
As the third poll in a row shows Labour slipping below 30%, and the gap between parties on the right and those on the left widening, the prospect of a change of government on October 14 has strengthened. This of course is a blow to those who believed the ascendancy of Chris Hipkins to the […]
Yet another poll puts Labour’s support below 30% as nation seeks saviour from economic woes
Fatal attitudes toward crime – Los Angeles
21 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
LA’s crime problems are not as bad as those of San Francisco and Oakland, where the latest piece of irony is that officials have advised workers at the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building to work remotely if possible due to “public safety concerns”. But if LA is not doing as badly that’s likely only because it’s […]
Fatal attitudes toward crime – Los Angeles
Almost done…at least according to the Reserve Bank
21 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
I’m not a huge fan of central banks publishing medium-term economic forecasts (or projections as we were usually schooled to call them). As I understand it, decades ago the Reserve Bank of New Zealand only started publishing them because the Official Information Act was passed (and in those days the forecasts made little or no […]
Almost done…at least according to the Reserve Bank
Creative destruction
21 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation Tags: creative destruction
Lock Him Up! The Excitement over Trump in Prison is Tellingly Premature
21 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in USA Today on the growing excitement among pundits on the prospect that former President Donald Trump could be going to jail. The celebration is a tad premature. Indeed, Trump could be convicted before the election and not be sent to prison for years, if ever. The prospect of prison depends […]
Lock Him Up! The Excitement over Trump in Prison is Tellingly Premature
Why Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Spells Inevitable Environmental Disaster
20 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Spearing thousands of wind turbines into rural communities and carpeting them with endless seas of solar panels is only just the beginning. To connect those hopelessly intermittent power sources to market requires thousands of (otherwise unnecessary) kilometres of additional transmission lines. All of that environmental destruction could have readily been avoided had Australia simply maintained […]
Why Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Spells Inevitable Environmental Disaster
Baby Busts and Bank Crashes: A Conversation with Demographer Nicholas Eb…
20 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, population economics Tags: baby bust, economics of banking
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