The Green Party wants to facilitate the transfer of more public (or “Crown”) and private land to iwi, hapū, and whānau. The intent is to address inequities arising from Māori land loss, especially in the 19th century. The New Zealand Constitution Act 1986 marks the point that Parliament became sovereign and the British Crown’s role […]
The Green Party’s plans for public and private lands
The Green Party’s plans for public and private lands
13 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Book Talk with Brad DeLong
13 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles
Delusional Groupthink Drives Obsession With Chaotically Intermittent Wind & SolarNick Cater
13 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
As in life, government policy is about trade-offs, which usually means plumping for the good rather than the perfect. However, in the de-industrialising West, energy policy is all about rejecting the good in favour of the unworkable. The notion that weather-dependent wind, and weather and sunshine-dependent solar (with or without pumped hydro or mythical mega-batteries) […]
Delusional Groupthink Drives Obsession With Chaotically Intermittent Wind & SolarNick Cater
New Orleans Dismantles Bike Lanes
12 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
In 2020, New Orleans planned to install bike lanes on 75 miles of streets, reducing the capacity of those streets to move cars. The residents of the first neighborhoods where they were installed strongly protested and are happy to report that, in late July and early August, all newly installed … Continue reading →
New Orleans Dismantles Bike Lanes
“Illusion of Influence”: The Media Moves the Goalpost Again on Biden Corruption Coverage
12 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
With the new disclosures in the Biden corruption scandal, the media has, again, pivoted to avoid acknowledging the obvious. It now has a new demand before it will fully recognize or report on the scandal. Of course, after long repeating denials of Joe Biden that he ever knew about his son’s foreign business deals, the […]
“Illusion of Influence”: The Media Moves the Goalpost Again on Biden Corruption Coverage
GRAHAM ADAMS: Hipkins’ Government enters election season in disarray
12 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
The Prime Minister is beginning to look like a lame duck However, he left co-governance in Three Waters and elsewhere untouched. With the media rooting for him — including blithely ignoring the fact he had been a lynch pin in Ardern’s Cabinet — Hipkins’ administration had an immediate bump in the polls. Suddenly Labour […]
GRAHAM ADAMS: Hipkins’ Government enters election season in disarray
Italy Breaks Through – Cadorna’s Triumph I THE GREAT WAR Week 107
12 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Laxity, or worse
11 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Reading the hardcopy Herald over lunch I spotted an article under the heading “Ministry boss apologises over spend-up”, referring to Mr Leauanae, the chief executive of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage (MCH) as regards the events surrounding his farewell from his previous role as head of the Ministry of Pacific Peoples (MPP) and his […]
Laxity, or worse
Thomas Sargent Delivers the 2022 Simpson Lecture
11 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics
Japan estimate of the day
11 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
An estimated 42% of adult Japanese women may end up never having children, the Nikkei newspaper reported, citing a soon-to-be-published estimate by a government research group. In a more optimistic scenario, a quarter of women born in 2005 may end up not having offspring. The midpoint estimate by Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social Security […]
Japan estimate of the day
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