Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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The government-appointed (and reappointed) chair of the Reserve Bank Board has been in the news today, after the reports earlier this week that in his role as Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University he’d been negotiating policy around a future new medical school at Waikato with National’s health spokesman Shane Reti. I don’t have any particular problem […]
Just making stuff up: the chair of the RB Board and the blackball on expertise
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Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533 – March 24, 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from November 17, 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last monarch of the House of Tudor and is sometimes referred to as the “Virgin Queen”. Elizabeth was born at Greenwich Palace on September 7 ,1533 and was […]
September 7, 1533: Birth of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland
06 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
I was a last-minute stand-in for Ruth Richardson at Monday evening’s debate at Vic Uni, hosted by the Free Speech Union. The moot: “The tax system is unfair and the wealthy must pay more.”Moots are fun. You don’t have to argue what you believe, but it’s easier and more convincing if you find angles sufficiently adjacent…
Debating tax
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in economic history, economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics Tags: active investing
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood The Government is rejecting a proposed moratorium on airport expansion. The Climate Change Act must now be reformed The Climate Change Committee and its deliberations may not yet be the subject of wide public debate, but its recommendations are beginning to have a massive impact on all our lives – […]
Sunak is finally standing up to the green Blob
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in entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation Tags: creative destruction
05 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Liberty Scott is the name of a blog run by a Libertarian who spent a lot of time overseas but who appears to have returned to New Zealand, judging by his blog becoming a lot more active recently. While he does write about economics and other topics his speciality is transport and there are very […]
Liberty Scott on National’s Transport Policy
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The numbers The Treasury will release in its PREFU next week will make it fairly easy to follow some bits of New Zealand fiscal policy over time, less so others, but do almost nothing to facilitate international comparisons, and discourage New Zealand users and analysts from looking at fiscal policy in the way most other […]
Thinking about fiscal policy
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in television, TV shows
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power
German power prices, already the highest in Europe, have gone stratospheric. Once Europe’s industrial powerhouse, Germany is fast headed for economic ruin and social disaster. 20 years back, Germany’s Green/Socialist utopians – utterly detached from reality – dreamt up the ‘Energiewende’. However, the purported ‘transition’ to an all-wind and sun-powered future has turned dystopian nightmare. […]
Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Leaves Germans Suffering Europe’s Highest Power Prices
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Below is my column in The Hill on the growing list of aliases used by President Joe Biden in prior years and the unsuccessful efforts of public interest groups and Congress to gain access to the emails. There may be innocent explanations of why the President used aliases to send information to Hunter Biden. For…
Biden’s Use of False Names Could Cost Him
04 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
A fascinating article on an event that has long been indicated by human genome research but which more powerful analytical methods have been able to pin down more accurately: The population of human ancestors crashed between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago. They estimate that there were only 1,280 breeding individuals alive during this transition between […]
Extinction Event
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Green Energy Activists are hitting hard realities, as summarized by Jonathan Lesser at New York Post Why wind and solar power are running out of juice. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images Green energy and the push to electrify everything have been in the news recently but for all the wrong reasons. […]
Green Energy Grinding to a Halt
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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