Emails Cast Further Light on the Plot to Re-educate Boris About Climate Change
13 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
Caution – alarmist brainwashers at work. Never mind the ‘unrealistic’ climate models.
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Thirty-eight emails released under a recent FOI request provide an interesting insight into the way Government science advisers plotted to change Boris Johnson’s mind over the causes of climate change, ahead of a Cabinet Office presentation, says The Daily Sceptic.
The event on January 28th 2020 was led by the Government’s Chief Scientific Officer Sir Patrick Vallance and presented, using 11 slides, by the Chief Scientist of the Met Office, Professor Stephen Belcher.
According to Belcher, the stated goal of the presentation was to “stabilise climate which requires net zero emissions”.
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Lies, damned lies, and G7 league tables
12 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
The publication of the first official GDP data for the whole of 2021 have revived a highly politicised debate about how well the UK is doing, compared to our peers in the G7. Part of me doesn’t really care, but there are some important points here.
First, the claim that the UK was the fastest growing G7 economy in 2021 is factually correct, as is the claim that independent forecasters (including the IMF) expect the UK to repeat this performance in 2022. We can argue about the significance of these claims, but both are true.
The issues here are therefore different from those raised by other recent statements. In particular, the Prime Minister has rightly been told off by the statistics regulator for repeatedly claiming that there are more people in work than before the pandemic, which ignores the fall in the numbers of self-employed. This feels like a…
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Mises’s Bureaucracy, a Recap
12 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
My favorite two economists are Ludwig Von Mises and Milton Friedman. They might consider one another from very different schools of thought, though there is reason to think that they are not so different. As an undergraduate student, I liked them both, but I became more empirics-minded in graduate school and as a young assistant professor.
As I progressed through graduate school and conducted empirical research, my opinions and policy prescriptions changed and were refined from what they once were. In graduate school, I didn’t study Austrian Economics, though it was certainly in the water at George Mason University. Recently, as an assistant professor with a few years under my belt, I picked up Bureaucracy (1944) and read it as a matter of leisure.
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Why Sweden Is Moving Its Northernmost Town 2 Miles East
12 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in energy economics, urban economics
Stopping Russia – Hindenburg’s Final Offensive? I THE GREAT WAR Week 29
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Your Fraudulency: The 1876 election
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My Presidential Choice
11 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
I periodically get asked who should be in the White House.
Since I’m a policy wonk rather than a political pundit, I generally sidestep the question.
Though it probably isn’t too hard to figure out my preference if you peruse what I’ve written about previous presidents.
I’m a huge fan of both Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge, for instance.
But I’m definitely not partisan. 
I’ve also said nice things about John F. Kennedy and even Bill Clinton.
And to further demonstrate my independence, it’s time for me to endorse another Democrat.
Yes, you read correctly. The person I want in the White House is….(drum roll, please)…the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, Grover Cleveland.
He’s mostly famous for being the only President to serve non-consecutive terms (he won in 1884, lost in 1888, and won again in 1892). And perhaps also for marrying a 21-year woman…
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