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Ed Glaeser doesn’t hold back
28 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, environmental economics, income redistribution, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: green rentseeking, NIMBY
#climateemergency #globalwarming @GreenpeaceAP @Greens @NZGreens @jamespeshaw @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
23 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
Michael Moore, filmmakers respond to criticism of new bombshell environmental film
11 May 2020 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, movies, politics - USA Tags: green rentseeking, solar power, wind power
Insurance-like Product Protects Power Developers from Windless Days
19 Mar 2020 1 Comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming Tags: green rentseeking, The fatal conceit, wind power
#globalwarming #climateemergency @Greenpeace @Greens @NZGreens #virtuesignaling
24 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmists, expressive voting, green rentseeking, virtue signaling
The @Greenpeace business model
30 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: green rentseeking
So @NZGreens seeks to line its pockets from the #plasticbagfascism administered by @EugenieSage as minister
14 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: green rentseeking, recycling
Straight to the point; hydro power survives without subsidies; wind and solar doesn’t
04 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
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Solar power has been a celebrity technology since I was in high school and still can’t compete without subsidies
01 Jul 2018 1 Comment
Spot-on
03 Feb 2018 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics Tags: green rentseeking, solar power, wind power
Does @JulieAnneGenter exaggerate the emissions benefits of rail?
28 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, transport economics Tags: green rentseeking, Rail
Why Norway is full of Teslas
11 Jun 2017 Leave a comment
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@RusselNorman @JulieAnneGenter a hedge fund specialises in shorting renewable energy shares @Greenpeace
03 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming Tags: active investing, disinvestment, entrepreneurial alertness, ethical investing, Fossil Fuels, green rentseeking, hedge funds, passive investing, renewable energy, solar power, Vice Fund, wind power
Just as the Vice Fund specialises in investing in tobacco, alcohol, gaming and defence shares, Cool Futures Funds Management is starting-up to specialise in betting against global warming by shorting green stocks:
…instead of renewables being our energy future, they’re betting on the subsidies drying up and the whole industry collapsing; instead of fossil fuels being left in the ground as “stranded assets”.
An example of the nice little earners this hedge fund can come across is anticipating when particular investors will want to disinvest from fossil fuels.
When institutional investors ranging from universities to sovereign investment funds such as the New Zealand Superannuation Fund seek to disinvest from fossil fuels, that will be a good time to buy cheap shares.The
@AndrewLittleMP @jamespeshaw @BillEnglishMP Real housing prices New Zealand, Australia & USA: 1975 January quarter – 2015 June quarter
17 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: green rentseeking, housing affordability, land supply, New Zealand Greens, New Zealand Labour Party, RMA
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Source and notes: International House Price Database – Dallas Fed June 2015; nominal housing prices for each country is deflated by the personal consumption deflator for that country.
New Zealand housing prices were pretty stable until the passage of the Resource Management Act in 1993. After that, prices took off New Zealand and didn’t slow that much for the recession subsequent to the Global Financial Crisis.
American prices just had a bubble because of loose monetary policy by the Fed and loose lending criteria by banks at the behest of regulators. Real housing prices in the USA started to rise again last year after a dramatic fall.
Australian prices were rising steadily until about 2000 but then took off with a strong economy and the usual restrictions on land supply by local governments at the behest of the existing homeowners.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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