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Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Professor Robert MacCulloch: Would Elon Musk get a fail in Monetary Economics by Milton Friedman?

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As much as I admire much of what Elon Musk stands for, amusingly he's now getting into economics in a big way. Seems its a hobby for him...
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Jefferey Jaxen: The Real Purpose of Net Zero

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The recent Telegraph headline rang out of England recently with unsettling tones: Tenth of farmland to be axed for net zero More than 10 per...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Peter St Onge: Every Bureaucrat Destroys 138 Jobs

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An Auburn University  study  says every single regulator destroys fully 138 private sector jobs every year you keep him on the job. With nea...
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Saturday, December 7, 2024

Professor Robert MacCulloch: National Defunds Economics.....

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National Defunds Economics, saying NZ needs instead to invest in "Core Science" that has "Economic Impact". Minister Jud...
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Monday, October 21, 2024

Peter St. Onge: They Have the Money - We Have the Numbers

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Authoritarianism is back across the West — from Europe to the Biden-Harris censorship regime that would fit perfectly in Communist China. I ...
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Saturday, October 5, 2024

David Barnhizer: Migration, Assimilation, and the Limits of Compassion

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As I write this I am sitting on a balcony thirty feet above the Plaza Mayor in the center of Madrid Spain. Madrid is a fantastic city and, i...
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Friday, October 4, 2024

Eric Hussey: The Carbon Alarmists Are Silent about This

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I value thought experiments as useful tools to understand how things work. Thought experiments, also known as idealized experiments, have a ...
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Sunday, July 28, 2024

Jeffrey A. Tucker: Ten Points About Post-Lockdown Economics

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The sudden economic lockdown of March 2020, the world over, was one of the more shocking moments in history. The very core of the economic p...
Monday, June 24, 2024

David Farrar: Educating Duncan

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Ben Thomas writes : Seymour told the committee he used a working definition of regulation as “rules which restrict the use of private proper...
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Sunday, August 13, 2023

Peter Winsley: The Green Party’s plans for public and private lands

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The Green Party wants to facilitate the transfer of more public (or “Crown”) and private land to iwi, hapū, and whānau. The intent is to ad...
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Saturday, July 8, 2023

Peter Winsley: Education as Master, not Servant of Artificial Intelligence

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Knowledge accumulated over Generations When past social or technological advances are discussed young people sometimes disclaim all knowledg...
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Saturday, October 8, 2022

John Miltimore - Cornell University Physician: I Was Wrong about Covid Vaccine Mandates

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The great martial artist Bruce Lee reputedly said that all mistakes are forgivable—if one has the courage to admit the mistake. Paul Fenyve...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Mike Hosking: Economics of idiots causing labour shortage

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The statistic that should send a chill through every one of us was the one you might have seen over the weekend from a construction company....
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Monday, July 25, 2022

Mike Hosking: The Government are digging a deeper financial hole

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As schools return, let’s begin the term with a little Economics 101. When you artificially inject yourself into an economy with the view to ...
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Friday, June 3, 2022

Dr Dennis Wesselbaum: Economics in the New Zealand media: a requiem

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The media has largely ignored economics in the last couple of years. The return of inflation, however, has brought economic topics back into...
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Monday, May 13, 2019

Daniel J. Mitchell - Comparing the Economic Growth of East Germany to West Germany: A History Lesson

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Donald Trump is an incoherent mix of good policies and bad policies . Some of his potential 2020 opponents, by contrast, are coherent b...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Jon Miltimore: The Costs of NYC’s $15 Minimum Wage Are Already Visible

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New York City’s minimum wage jumped more than 15 percent overnight on January 1, and employers are already cutting workers’ hours as a ...
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Saturday, December 8, 2018

David Unsworth: French Citizens Want Cheaper Energy, not Global Warming Elitism

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French President Emmanuel Macron pursues his global warming agenda at his own political peril. Diesel moves France. Whereas in t...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Hans Bader: How a Minimum Wage Hike Wiped Out 40% of Venezuela's Stores

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A large minimum wage increase in Venezuela has dealt a “fatal blow to 40% of Venezuelan stores,” reports the Miami Herald. The increase ...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Jarrett Stepman: As Venezuela Collapses, Inflation Careers Toward 1 Million Percent

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Venezuela’s inflation may hit 1 million percent by the end of the year, the International Monetary Fund announced on Monday. This incredi...
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