Another steel mill just entered administration.
Mad Miliband’s British Net Zero Industrial Collapse
Mad Miliband’s British Net Zero Industrial Collapse
23 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: British politics
Why is Europe Falling Behind?
23 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic growth, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics Tags: European Union
WSJ: Europe is Losing Europeans live longer, have more leisure time and less income inequality, and often live in stunning cities and towns built over the centuries. But increasingly, Americans enjoy a higher standard of living. They have over 50% more living space on average per person. More than four in five Americans have air…
Why is Europe Falling Behind?
An attempt to lower NZ electricity prices could end up doing the opposite – here’s why
23 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in energy economics, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand Tags: competition law
Richard Meade writes – In its quest to lower electricity prices for New Zealand households, the Electricity Authority may inadvertently make the situation worse. This week, the authority announced plans to require New Zealand’s “gentailers” – firms that both generate electricity and retail it to consumers – to offer the same supply terms to independent retailers as […]
An attempt to lower NZ electricity prices could end up doing the opposite – here’s why
Right on
23 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Banning racing
22 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, sports economics
New Zealand will be banning greyhound racing. The Bill to formally end greyhound racing will be introduced to Parliament later this year. The public will be able to make submissions to the select committee as part of the process.“It is important people get the opportunity to have their say. The decision to end greyhound racing was…
Banning racing
How to Play the Czech Pirc Defense: Beginner’s Guide to Chess Openings
22 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in chess
Scientific American reverts to unscientific wokeness
21 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Well, Laura Helmuth may no longer be at the helm of Scientific American, but the magazine seems to have again again dipped its toes into the waters of unscientific ideology. To wit: they’re posted a 14-minute podcast emphasizing that nature—and that includes humans—is “non-binary”. The problem is that, as usual, they get what is binary […]
Scientific American reverts to unscientific wokeness
Bill Maher: Latest “new rule” on timorous Democrats
21 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, television, TV shows
I guess Bill Maher is back with his “Real Time” show, and in the latest bit he’s going to anger a lot of “progressives”. Why? Because he’s taking out after Democrats—in particular, the cowardice of Democrats. (Even liberal Democrats haven’t forgiven Maher for saying that he had a cordial dinner with Trump—despite Maher’s having called […]
Bill Maher: Latest “new rule” on timorous Democrats
Why I disagree with Helen Clark
20 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in economics of education, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty
According to the NZ Herald this morning: “Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has described the departure of former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern from politics as “devastating for women around the world”.” Not this one. But then very little devastates me beyond the loss of a loved person or pet. Or dwelling on the suffering of…
Why I disagree with Helen Clark
The journal Nature calls for “decolonization” of modern science
20 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of education, Marxist economics Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
Jerry Coyne writes – That Nature published this long comment, written by eight indigenous authors from five countries, is a sure sign of its surrender to “progressive” views that aim to change science from an endeavor finding truth about nature to an endeavor that’s a lever for social justice. Surprisingly, though, Nature allowed the authors to use […]
The journal Nature calls for “decolonization” of modern science
Maori life expectancy rising the fastest
20 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: life expectancies
Stats NZ have published the latest life expectancy at birth data. Here’s the increase for each ethnic and gender group from 2006 to 2023. This is what TPM presumably calls genocide!
Maori life expectancy rising the fastest
The Greens’ weekend gift to the government
19 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in economic growth, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, wealth tax
Roger Partridge writes – The Greens’ coronation of Chlöe Swarbrick at last weekend’s AGM delivered a manifesto for economic transformation that would make Soviet economists nostalgic for their glory days.
The Greens’ weekend gift to the government
How unproportional might the next Parliament be?
19 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
MMP is meant to deliver a proportional Parliament. That is how it is designed, and how it was sold. There is one aspect to it though that can make Parliaments unproportional. It is overhang seats – when a party wins more electorates than their share of the party vote would entitle them to. We have […]
How unproportional might the next Parliament be?
Some New York Dems Starting To Realize Climate Targets Are Too Extreme
19 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
Some New York Democrats are sounding the alarm over the state’s climate goals, arguing that New York should delay implementing some of its stringent green energy mandates.
Some New York Dems Starting To Realize Climate Targets Are Too Extreme
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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