Scalia and Thomas on a federal abortion ban
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Richard Epstein on The Unfulfilled Promise of the Anti Discrimination Laws
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Mother cat forgot to carry adopted kitten to a new place, but take care about her daughter
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Deathly Silence: Green Groups Complicit in Wind Industry’s Endangered Eagle Slaughter
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So-called green groups that help cover up the wind industry’s rampant slaughter of birds and bats are just as guilty as those who directly profit from the carnage.
A fair proportion of their practised acquiescence is explained by bags of cash – aka helpful “donations” from outfits such as NextEra to the likes of the Sierra Club. But not all. Running silent is one thing, running interference is something altogether more sinister.
Robert Bryce lists the lid on a particularly toxic brand of virtue signalling hypocrisy.
America’s Biggest ‘Green’ Groups Love Wind Turbines, Not Eagles
Real Clear Energy
Robert Bryce
20 April 2022
I’m old enough to remember when environmentalists cared about protecting our birds, bats, and whales. Alas, concern about protecting our wildlife has been lost amid the headlong rush to cover the countryside with oceans of solar panels and forests of wind turbines in the hope that they…
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Switzerland, Decentralization, and Tax Competition
12 May 2022 Leave a comment
There are many reasons to admireSwitzerland.
The nation’s very effectivespending cap.- The nation’s libertarian-leaninggovernance.
- The nation’s system of private pensions.
- The nation’s genuine decentralization.
- The nation’s support for gun rights.
- The nation’s high public sector efficiency.
For today, let’s focus on how tax competition is one of the benefits of Swiss decentralization.
More specifically, most fiscal policy (both taxes and spending) takes place at the cantonal and municipal level. And this means that the Swiss can vote with their feet if they want more government or less government.
Not surprisingly, they tend to move to lower-tax areas. In a summary for VoxEU, Isabel Martínez shares some of her research on the impact of tax cuts and tax competition in the canton of Obwalden.
…economic research has made important contributions, showing that top earners indeed relocate across borders for…
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Inflation Has Wiped Out Average Wage Gains During the Pandemic (maybe)
12 May 2022 Leave a comment
The latest CPI inflation report didn’t have a huge surprise in the headline number, with 8.3% being very similar to last month. But with the two most recent months of data, we can now see something very unfortunate in the data: cumulative inflation during the pandemic as measured by the CPI-U (11.6%) has now almost matched average wage growth (12.0%), as measured by the average wage for all private workers. I start in January 2020 for the pre-pandemic baseline.
What this means is that inflation-adjusted wages in the US are no greater than they were before the pandemic. They are almost identical to what they were in February 2020 (just 2 cents greater). But as regular readers will know, the CPI-U isn’t the only measure of inflation, and there’s good reason to believe it’s not the best. One alternative is the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index. Cumulative inflation…
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The Godfather – Italian Restaurant Scene Subtitled & Translated
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What Circumstances Led to the Titanic Sinking?
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Clive #Dunn “It’s A Long Way To #Tipperary” Good Old Days”
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A mom cat decided to adopt a neonatal kitten after heard her crying in incubator
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George H. Smith Debates David D. Friedman: Ethics vs. Economics (1981) – The Turney Collection
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The German Art of Bunker Building – WW2 Special
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David Levine | Address and Q&A on patents and copyright| Oxford Union Web Series
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