The Black Markets of World War Two – WW2 – On the Homefront 012
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Jordan Peterson explains Equality of Opportunity (With thought bubbles)
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in discrimination, economic history, economics of media and culture, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Warren G. Harding: The Most Corrupt President in US History
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in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA
Barbarossa: Why such high Soviet Losses? – Explained
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Why Is Growth in Developing Countries So Hard to Measure?
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Noam Angrist, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Dean Jolliffe in the recent Journal of Eco Perspectives:
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One Hundred Years of Climate Change
06 Aug 2021 1 Comment
Government temperature graphs have been altered and are not consistent with historical records. As Tony Heller explains, they are propaganda, not science.
Starting Small: Nuclear Power’s Renaissance Begins with Small Modular Reactors
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The world’s first small modular reactor (SMR) is under construction and, surprise, surprise, it’s energy-hungry China that leads the way.
While China’s love affair with coal-fired power looks like a marriage that will last a lifetime, the CCP is also building nuclear plants, hand over first. And not just the 1,000MW plus industrial-scale reactors it needs to drive its economic miracle.
China looks set to develop the technology to build SMRs at a scale that promises to shake up power generation and delivery, for generations to come.
The World’s First Small Nuclear Reactor Is Now Under Construction
Oil Price
Charles
Kennedy
13 July 2021
China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) launched on Tuesday the construction of the first onshore small nuclear reactor in the world, in its efforts to gain a leading position in the modular reactors market.
Construction began on the demonstration project at the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant in…
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Should have done better
06 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
A couple of months ago the Institute of Directors approached me about doing a talk to their members in Wellington on monetary policy as it had been conducted by the Reserve Bank over recent times. Somewhat to my surprise, my name had apparently been suggested to them by Alan Bollard.
I gave the talk this morning, and although the date was set ages ago it could hardly have been more timely given the labour market data yesterday, which in a way finally marks the completion of not just the last 18 months’ of monetary policy, but in some ways the last 14 years (for the first time since the 2008/09 recession we have core inflation a little above the Bank’s target midpoint and the unemployment rate back to something that must be close to the NAIRU.
The full text of my remarks, and a few more points I didn’t have…
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My Hate Speech Submission
06 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
`I am pleased to submit my opposition to this unnecessary and insidious legistlaltion as follows.
- This is nothing more than an effort by various groups and the New Zealand Government to suppress speech they do not like or agree with. Free speech is a key cornerstone of Western Society and nowhere should that be more vigorously defended than in New Zealand. It is an indictment on Labour and its Ministers that it appears to be promoting and driving this legislation.
- Freedom of speech and expression is already severely impinged and restricted in New Zealand by virtue of the fact that the two major newspaper companies(Stuff and NZ Herald) will not countenance or publish views that are contrary to the views of the editors, opinion writers and staff. This is further exacerbated by the fact that the current government has paid them taxpayers money to keep solventand their…
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Net zero targets ‘unrealistic’ says Oxfam report
06 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
Photosynthesis: nature requires carbon dioxide
It’s pie in the sky time again as charity Oxfam trashes various so-called climate pledges, calling them greenwashing. For starters they reckon the amount of land required to fulfil them would far exceed anything likely to be available worldwide.
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Oxfam says governments and companies are “hiding behind unreliable, unproven and unrealistic carbon removal schemes” in order to hit targets, reports BBC News.
Global attempts are being made to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
But the charity claims net zero targets are often a “greenwashing exercise”.
Net zero means any emissions that can’t be stemmed by clean technology in 2050 will either be buried using carbon capture and storage, or soaked up by plants and soils.
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Debating Glenn Loury: Are Racial Disparities Caused by “Culture”?
06 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination
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