First time I have heard Milo speak
19 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: crybaby left, Leftover Left
Why protest the inauguration of the weakest GOP president in modern times?
21 Jan 2017 2 Comments
in politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2016 presidential election, Leftover Left, Twitter left
Those denouncing Trump forget he is the weakest newly elected GOP president in modern times. Trump’s polarising nature rules out his popularity going up that much.
His erratic nature means that his administration will perform poorly because those he appoints to make up his administration, all 4000 of them, do not know what Trump wants because that changes every day. Trump will have to arbitrate all disputes within his administration.
Congress will desert him as soon as it hurts their re-election chances in 2018 where a great many Republican Senate seats are up because they won back the Senate in 2012.
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Trump is even weaker than average because a good part of his base do not otherwise vote in elections or they are registered Democrats. This makes his disgruntled base less of a threat in the 2018 Republican primaries.
Trump can only afford to lose 2 Republican senators. The Democratic Senate caucus will be united because opportunities if they can only pick up two Republican votes in the current Senate.
Trump will be an inept President but more socially liberal than any recent GOP president. Protest that.
Before you start on the fact that Trump won the electoral college but not the popular vote, remember the John Kerry to this day believes election fraud in Ohio deprived him of the presidency in 2004 despite losing the popular vote by about 3 million votes. Winning Ohio would have flipped that election.
So @Oxfamnz honestly believes there are more desperately poor in North America than South America; Africa gets a run for its money too
21 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: Leftover Left, The Great Escape, Twitter left
The Left does not believe on honest disagreement, no matter how profound
09 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
The 1st @PaulKrugman explains globalisation to @SenSanders @JeremyCorbyn
04 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, globalisation, Leftover Left, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Source: Enemies of the WTO (1999).
Deirdre McCloskey on the origins of the #minimumwage
01 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, history of economic thought, labour economics, minimum wage Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, eugenics, Leftover Left, New Left, Old Left
Source: Liberalism, Neoliberalism, and the Literary Left Interview by W. Stockton and D. Gilson (forthcoming).
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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