The Kaiser’s Birthday – Hypocrisy in Greece I THE GREAT WAR – Week 79
28 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Why Didn’t the Allies Get Rid of Franco After the Second World War?
28 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, war and peace Tags: Spain, World War II
Why did Japan refuse Poland’s declaration of war in WW2?
28 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, war and peace Tags: Japan, Poland, World War II
Reviewing the MPC’s Remit
27 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
Once upon a time the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy was guided by a Policy Targets Agreement reached between the Governor and the Minister of Finance. These days things are different. As one of the more sensible aspects of the 2018 legislative overhaul, the new Monetary Policy Committee now works to a Remit (current one here) determined ultimately solely by the Minister of Finance. That is the way things should be: if officials are free to implement policy, the policy goals should be set by those whom we elect, in this case the Minister of Finance. At times, the Minister may put daft things in the Remit – as the current one did a couple of years back with the house price references – but that is how our system of government works (as it should).
Another sensible aspect of those reforms was a requirement that every five years or…
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Power Grab: Struggling British Households Forced to Install Pre-Paid Smart Meters
27 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
With power prices soaring out of control, it’s little wonder that thousands of British families can’t afford electricity. Every time Britain is hit with a bout of calm weather, wholesale power prices go through the roof.
In response to soaring wholesale power prices, the retail price cap that kept a lid on power bills over the last few years has been lifted (see above), such that power has now become a luxury item and forever out of reach for thousands of low-income households.
Add to that to the cost of the hundreds of £millions doled out in subsidies to wind power outfits to produce no power at all, and the tens of £billions they pocket, when they do, and Britain’s subsidised wind power-fixated energy policy looks positively obscene.
In the postwar period, British governments targeted policies that ensured that even the poorest households had access to reliable electricity, which came…
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The 2023 Election will be a Race Relations Election
27 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
Just in case anyone has been living in a cave for the last 5 years, with their fingers in their ears and a blindfold on – race relations in New Zealand are somewhat strained right now.
Co-governance, having been initiated by National and taken to an unexpected extreme by Labour, is (to put it mildly) polarising poor old New Zealand right now. I don’t see the polarisation diminishing any time soon, nor do I see any type of sustainable consensus coming about.
Relevant to this is the following announcement: Rurawhe will not contest Te Tai Hauāuru, moves to Labour list:
Te Tai Hauāuru MP and Speaker of the House Adrian Rurawhe will not stand for the Māori electorate in October’s general election and will instead move to the Labour Party list.
Rurawhe contested and won Te Tai Hauāuru three times. He was elected as Speaker mid-term in August last…
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Why WW1 British soldiers were NOT ‘Lions led by donkeys’
27 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Everything Jacinda Ardern ‘tried’ had been a failure : David Seymour
27 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: law and order, racial discrimination
Aaronson on Feminism: My Reply
26 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: gender wage gap
Here’s my point-by-point reply to Scott Aaronson’s thoughts on Don’t Be a Feminist. He’s in blockquotes, I’m not. Hi Bryan, Sorry for the delay! I just finished reading your book. 1,251 more words
Aaronson on Feminism: My Reply
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