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Thursday 18 May 2023

The govt debt blowout

"Sobering to realise net govt debt was $5.4bn in Jun 2019 & is set to be $95bn by Jun 2025."
~ Michael Reddell

Posted by Peter Cresswell at 16:31:00

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SAVVY STREET

Transcript: Brian Doherty Interviewed on The Savvy Street Show - Brian Doherty interviewed by *The Savvy Street Show.* The post Transcript: Brian Doherty Interviewed on The Savvy Street Show appeared first on SAVVY STR...
misfits' architecture

Ch. 1 pp.35–46 - * * * 1.3 Settlements Survey I – The appearance of the outside Settlements were part of the topography I participated in a survey of settlements conducted ...
Virginia Postrel

Question Time Returns! - Paid subscribers, post questions you'd like me to answer in the comments
Libertarian Land

Mixed Evidence on Charter Schools - Charter schools receive public funding but escape many regulations that apply to traditional public schools (TPSs). Thus, many charters offer more varied c...
Interintellect

New Essay Series: 'Personal Theology' - And an apology for the hiatus
Kiwipolitico

Policing protests. - Images of US students (and others) protesting and setting up tent cities on US university campuses have been broadcast worldwide and clearly demonstrate th...
Schiffradio.com

The Secret Word Is Stagflation – Ep 958 - Visit https://indeed.com/peter to start hiring now. Join my Locals community to get The Pete Schiff Show ad-free! Plus get access to special live reports...
Elsewhere by Graham Reid: Music at Elsewhere

The Church: Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars (digital outlets) - Since Elsewhere's interview with the Church's Steve Kilbey in 2018 – now the sole remaining member of the original line-up ... Source: The Church: Eros Z...
Market Urbanism

No Solutions, Just Tradeoffs - Research shows that the implementation of an eviction moratorium significantly disadvantaged African Americans in the housing search process. The post No...
Toppermost

The Fatima Mansions - Named in honor of a crumbling Dublin housing estate, the edgy, assaultive Fatima Mansions formed in London in 1989. The group was led by the acerbic Cath...
FIRE

Texas tramples First Amendment rights with police crackdown of pro-Palestinian protests - More than 50 arrested after state police storm protestors at University of Texas at Austin.
Barrie Saunders

Open letter to Hon Paul Goldsmith - Dear Paul As the new Minister of Broadcasting you will be inundated with heaps of free advice and special pleading, all in the national interest of course....
Free Range Kids

I Let My Kids Go to the Library Without Me - I remember loving the library like a second, more-exciting home. The children’s room was fun, but the Junior High Room? Aladdin’s cave! And the adult room?...
Thinking Directions

Clearing Emotional Baggage About Flip-Flopping on a Decision - I recently answered a query on LinkedIn: New LinkedIn data shows that the number of “boomerangs,” or employees who left a company for a certain a...
PERC - Property + Environment Research Center

Tapping Water Markets in Florida - Co-published by PERC and the James Madison Institute, this report explains how water markets can help resolve Florida’s most pressing water issues. The p...
A life just as ordinary

Herevana – # 194 – Wilderness Brewing – Wild Fire - Here we have: Wilderness Brewing – Wild Fire. I generally like the Wilderness Brewing beers, and when they’ve joined with Cell Division, beer that you don’...
Lindsay Mitchell

Is Oranga Tamariki guilty of child neglect? - One of reasons Oranga Tamariki exists is to prevent child neglect. But could the organisation itself be guilty of the same? Oranga Tamariki’s statistics ...
TheMoneyIllusion

More articles - 1. Tyler linked to an interesting article on Portugal. This caught my eye: Then, in 2023, the Immigration Control Agency was dissolved, ostensibly in respo...
Houston Strategies

Here’s (NOT) the Real Reason Houston Is Going Broke - Strong Towns posted "Here’s the Real Reason Houston Is Going Broke" earlier this month, ironically on April 1st because a lot of what they said was absolut...
Principled Perspectives

Economic Power and a Free and Independent Media - There is a significant and distressing lack of understanding in America about freedom of speech and press. For example, this meme has been circulating on...
Autonomia

Classic Movies in Review - “Desert Fury,” “Le Samouri” and Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival
The Works in Progress Newsletter

Apply to come to Invisible College - Our new residential seminar for 18 to 22-year-olds, during August 2024
New Zealand Arts Review

A warm endearing night out - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel By Deborah MoggachDirector, Lucy WaterhouseProducers, Stewart and Tricia Macpherson, Ben MacDonaldWithRula Lenska, Harmage S...
Unmasked (Ian Miller)

How Much Better Would The US's COVID Results Be If We Had Followed Sweden? - A compelling new estimate of just how much worse we did with lockdowns and masks
HardmoneyJim

A Brief Hiatus - My book project is moving right along.
PM of NZ

Far North councils ready to waste ratepayers hard earnt taxes - *Far North District Council and Northland Regional Council are set to oppose the coalition Government’s signalled changes to Māori wards* The FNDC Mayor,...
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Reflections on Earth Day, including a discussion with Rick Perry - Last year on Earth Day, I had a discussion with former TX Governor Rick Perry at EarthX to discuss how fossil fuels have created and will continue to creat...
visa's voltaic verses ⚡️

facing reality, pt 1 - people can be remarkably skilled at NOT learning from experience
Private Lands – PERC

Creative Conservation Inspires Hope This Earth Day - Doom-and-gloom Earth Day messaging often paints a depressing future, but there is plenty of progress to celebrate. The post Creative Conservation Inspire...
Wildlife – PERC

Creative Conservation Inspires Hope This Earth Day - Doom-and-gloom Earth Day messaging often paints a depressing future, but there is plenty of progress to celebrate. The post Creative Conservation Inspire...
One Useful Thing

Innovation through prompting - Democratizing educational technology... and more
Boom (UK)

The province defying Italy’s birth dearth - Thirty years of child-friendly policies
The Antiplanner

A Look at the Wacky Transit Industry - Today is Earth Day, a day in which we are supposed to celebrate environmentally friendly ideas such as public transit, high-density development, and electr...
Thoughts from the North (Garry Judd KC)

The Waitangi Tribunal is not "a roving Commission" - it has a restricted jurisdiction which must not be abused: it is not an inquisition
The Visible Hand

What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income? - Cross-post from Substack. Look I’m from New Zealand – so when everyone around me started talking about ATARs I just smiled and nodded. In fact I probably c...
Mises Wiki - Recent changes [en]

DRAGONVALE! CHEATS MOD ANDROID IOS NO SURVEY 2024 NEW - Created page with "Hey there, DragonVale fans! Are you ready to take your DragonVale gaming experience to the next level? Well, you're in luck because we...
The Objective Standard

Sam Harris and Alex O’Connor Debate Morality - I was delighted to see that Alex O’Connor recently debated Sam Harris about whether ethics is objective and, if so, on what grounds. The post Sam Harris ...
Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

Your Call - This week, instead of you reading what we think, we want to read what you think. Regular readers will know that we recently launched our Private Business...
Anarchonomicon (CatGirl Kulak)

EMERGENCY QuickTake: Israel is starting WW3? - Israel just couldn't help themselves. They killed multiple Iranian generals IN A CONSULATE violating all international law, and In response Iran basically ...
The Free Market Futurist

What Replaces the Biblical Cinematic Universe? - An Observation on the Secular Future of Spirituality
Offsetting Behaviour

Despair - construction consenting edition - Kainga Ora is the government's house building agency. It's been building a lot of social housing. Kainga Ora has its own (but independent) consenting aut...
BloodhoundBlog

BloodhoundBrag: FannieMae and FreddieMac are FINALLY deploying a plan we proposed in 2007… - You know how it is. The NAR had to get itself sued to death first. Inasmuch as nothing is actually changing – adamantly, nothing – that works out to be a d...
One Sock: Heather Roy's Blog

Poor Productivity Produces Poor Kiwis - The focus on job losses, distressing as they are for individuals, masks New Zealand's real problem - poor productivity. We work harder and produce less tha...
Peter Winsley

New Zealand’s democracy, Te Tiriti and the Marine and Coastal Area Act - New Zealand is a democracy that is being challenged by race and tribal-based activism. A democracy implies universal suffrage, one person/one vote, votes b...
Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Fauci Protege Morens Plays Hide and Seek - In an era where information flows as swiftly as the tides, the ability to discern truth from a manipulated narrative is not just a skill but a necessity. I...
Museum Street (Henry Cooke)

One solution to distrust in the media: Show your working - For the mainstream media, explaining is not losing.
Croaking Cassandra

Tougher than that - Thomas Coughlan has a column in the Herald this morning, under the heading “Nicola Willis is just the right amount of Tory”. To this centre-right voter it ...
Gross Output

This just out on WSJ.com – and will make the printed copy on April 5, 2024 - The Wall Street Journal has accepted all four of my op eds on GO over the years. They are believers! Slow GO May Mean a Recession Soon: GDP numbers ...
A City for People

Tell Minister Bishop to say yes to more homes in Wellington - Email the Minister and tell him why he should approve all of the councillors' amendments to the District Plan.
Progress Forum Digest

Why you, personally, should want a larger human population - Also: The City That Can't, how to raise a genius, FDA reform, and more
Keith Weiner Economics

The Money Debate Which Should Have Been - by Keith Weiner, April 1 2024 They filed into the small room. After an ordeal, they were sent to the basement of the John Law Building. They had asked for ...
Notes On Liberty

Introducing: the Federation of Free States, an ongoing thought experiment - Originally published July 9th, 2019
Anna Gát: Eleven Sentence Essays

Essay 60 - Each death is an anticlimax; there’s nothing to say, and no one to say it to. The protagonist: speechless! The parents pass on laurels you never wanted. Yo...
Public Lands – PERC

Visitors From Abroad Can Help Steward Ailing National Parks - If international visitors to a U.S. park paid a $25 surcharge, it would likely raise over $300 million, nearly doubling parks’ total fee receipts. The po...
The Cultural Futurist (Rachel Haywire)

Cultural Futurist Salon III - Bohemian Banter: Event Info and Official Salon Link - Are you bold and unafraid or do you just want to banter?
Institute of Economic Affairs

Is Britain ready for Wol Kolade’s “big conversation” about the NHS? - Public satisfaction with the NHS has fallen to the lowest levels since records began in 1983, according to the latest … Continue reading "Is Britain read...
Butterpaper

Vault 2014: Gaza - cities under siege and under attack - Originally published in 2014. All eyes should be on Gaza at the moment, but understandably many are focused on unfolding events in the damp fields of Eas...
Grandmotherly Wisdom

Manifesting Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis - “You’re seeing a traffic jam, I’m seeing an abundance of cars”. I don’t normally pay much attention to billboards, but this one got me hooked. There’s no f...
Bawerk.net

Can Maduro Mayhem Last To 2017 - Are you curious about the future of the Maduro regime and wondering if the mayhem...
Liberty Scott

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion is a fundamentally low-grade, Orwellian anti-liberal project - Sunday Telegraph editor, and vehement classical liberal, Allister Heath, writes about the "DEI" movement, which has spread like a cancer around US univer...
from FEE

Why We're Not Supposed to Talk about Climate-Related Deaths - Disaster mortality seems to be a perfectly useful metric for understanding climate change—when the numbers tell the right story.
The Prophet of Causation

The Pain and the Passion - A Research Note on Ayn Rand and the Stoics
Don't Let It Go

Will the SAFE Act Protect You From Warrantless Surveillance? - This week, Senators Mike Lee, Dick Durbin and others proposed the SAFE Act, which the Senate Committee on the Judiciary describes as “Bipartisan legislatio...
Michael Newberry, Artist

Chapter 19, Dynamic Spaces: Two- and Three-Point Perspective - From my upcoming new edition of The Art Studio Companion 145 Maurits Cornelis Escher, Ascent and Descent, 1960. http://www.arthive.com. In this study, we e...
Reviews - 13th Floor

The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards (Silver Arrow) - The Black Crowes are back! Brothers Chris and Rich Robinson have buried the hatchet, put the pedal to the metal, and come up with their best album in yea...
The Kerrant

Wartime heroine was treasured - Helene (Mimi) Hotte Marple: B Amsterdam, February 3, 1912; m (1) 1937 Wim Hotte : (dec 1945) 1s, (2) 1966 Rex Marple; d Nelson, May 12, 2001. [Originally...
Notes On Liberty

Piece of music - A new bill, currently under public consultation, is poised to introduce quotas, yes, for music: Greek-Language Music Quota Bill Sparks Controversy (BalkanI...
Thoughts from 40° South

Reflections on October 7th - I have been intending to write down my thoughts on the massacre of Israelis by Hamas terrorists and Gaza civilians on October 7th, 2023, ever since it ha...
Fizzifood

Brie, pistachio & chilli stuffed chicken roulade - This high-protein, low-carb dish comprises just a single chicken breast. That being said, it’s a very light meal for two people – more of an entrée – so ...
Israel Institute of NZ

The enemy at the gates - It would be an understatement to say that the events of 7 October changed the focus of my life. While I’m not Jewish, I’ve been an increasingly passionate ...
Jack’s Substack

Electricity Cheapest in a Decade - NZ residential electricity most affordable in recent history
Better things are possible

Graduated Density Zoning, a condition for opting out of the Medium Density Residential Standards? - Last week, in a speech to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Minister for Housing and Infrastructure, Chris Bishop, noted that fixing our housing crisis i...
Too Clever By Half

And the winner is: PageList - [image: Athletic woman deadlifting a heavy weigh in a competition] michael b / flicker The PageList sidebar widget, and the older LinkList widget, each ...
The Fundy Post

Genesis -
Wright in Racine

Minerva’s 100th Birthday Bash - Photos © Mark Hertzberg Guest of honor: Minerva Montooth / Guests: 135 / Location: The Frank Lloyd Wright Visitors Center (formerly Riverview Terrace Resta...
Power + Market

In the Aftermath of the $355 Million Ruling Against Trump, Business Owners Are Even Less Safe than Before - By: Daniel Kowalski Willing buyer and willing seller. These five words form the very basis from which the system of capitalism is based on. You have someth...
round houses

island home - Sweet little cylindrical house on Koh Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand –
Johnny Grey Studios

The Next Generation of Cooks - Designing kitchens for the whole family
Samizdata

Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately - Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s...
A Politically Incorrect History of New Zealand

When was sovereignty properly established here? - So here's a quiz question for you: When did Britain legally acquire sovereignty over the New Zealand isles? (Supplementary questions: What IS soverei...
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
Open Borders: The Case

High-skilled hacks: the business of extraordinary ability - This post is part of my “high-skilled hacks” series, focused on immigration to the United States. The series explores various workarounds and caveats to im...
The Popehat Report

The Popehat Report Is Moving To Beehiiv - As I mentioned before, the Popehat Report is moving to Beehiiv, a different platform for blogs and newsletters. You can find it at www.popehat.com. The nex...
Law of Markets

An economic philosopher of the highest rank - He explains how capitalism, and only capitalism, can and does make us prosperous. Alas, he also shows how rare this perspective is by being so rare himself...
The Organon Architecture Blog

How to begin creating Organic Architecture ... - *'House for Betta,' 1988, by architect James Schildroth* *Organic architecture is not about assembling boxes and coating them with candy floss. For tha...
Patrick T. Brown, PhD

The Social Feedback Loop that Puts Blinders on Climate Science -
Michelle Kamhi

Where I’m Coming From - In today’s toxically polarized climate, individuals willing to engage openly in civil discourse with people they may disagree with are all too rare and m...
George Reisman's Blog

A 2024 Mid-Priced Automobile Sells for the Same $300 Price Paid for a Model T Ford in 1924 - It really does, if you can pay for it in *Gold* dollars. Based on the present price of gold bullion, of approximately $2,000 per ounce, a twenty-dollar U...
Precise Thinking

Finding the Benevolent Universe when the World is in a Pickle - by
Martini Mandate

Algorithms and traditions – a Christmas story - I met a Thai woman called Sugarplum on the rooftop bar of the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo. It was a completely random occurrence. We drank arrack cocktail...
Democracy Action

Is the government staying true to its promises? - In November 2023, National released the coalition agreements made with ACT and NZ First. The Coalition Government agrees to defend the principle that Ne...
M.M.E.F. News

MMEF Highlights to Close the Year & Opportunities for You in 2024 - *Kia Ora Koutou MMEF Supporters,* As the year draws gradually to a close, we'd love to update you on some of the recent MMEF highlights and a look ah...
Oh look it's a blog - Lorin Clarke

Won't somebody think of the children - I’ve been working with children lately. I have been astonished and astounded by how creative they are. It must be physiological. It’s just a fact that th...
Cranmer’s Substack

Team of Rivals: A CEO Approach to Government Leadership - Today the work begins.
Stu-Topia

Eminent Domain Is Inhumane - The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Published My Letter to the Editor Stuart K. Hayashi Back in the year 2006, Pablo Wegesend, Reid Ginoza, and I issued a warning...
Anti-Dismal

Thinking about the theory of production/the firm - J. B. Condliffe has pointed out that "[ ... ] economic activity and thoughts about it are as old a mankind'' (Condliffe 1974: 21) and this is certainl...
Fisheries – PERC

Free Markets and the Environment - A podcast exploring PERC's unique approach to conservation. The post Free Markets and the Environment appeared first on PERC.
Tross Publishing

A SERIOUS DISCONNECT - The tests of opinion on 14th October – the General Election in New Zealand and the “Voice” referendum in Australia – showed a serious disconnect between ...
positive check

New location - The EHES blog Positive Check has moved and can be found on the EHES website: *https://ehes.org/category/blog/*
Dominic Frisby

Exclusive Gold-Infused Comedy Show: Don't Miss Out - Laugh and learn about gold with Dominic Frisby! Extra London dates on Feb 14th and 15th. Get your tickets now. #ComedyGold
The Continental Telegraph

The BBC and terrorism - The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be… The post The BBC and terrorism appeared first on Continental ...
Splitting Headache

Meta Dreams—Somethings - Also, the recency bias of the internet, the death of search, and the most dangerous BigTech firm in the world.
Overthinking Everything

Why to explain things you already know - Explanations of things you already know help you fit your different understandings of the world together.
Pirate Wires

Dean Preston: San Francisco's Millionaire Marxist - the card carrying dsa sf politician also happens to be a millionaire who refuses to allow more housing in the city
Professor Werner

Washington’s “development economics” is actually designed to prevent development - Published in China by Guancha.cn newspaper on 7 September 2023 at: https://www.guancha.cn/Werner/2023_09_07_707650_3.shtml
Creative Deduction

What is fascism? - The word “fascism” is often used – and mis-used – to describe politicians and policies which are perceived to be somehow aligned with totalitarian ideas. B...
Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Free State | Documentary - Free State is a new libertarian documentary in the works. Per the film’s website, “The main focus is The Free State Project, a group of approximately 10,...
CEE – Econlib

Gross Output - Gross output (GO) is a relatively new macroeconomic statistic that measures total economic activity. Gross domestic product (GDP)—the other major measure...
Premise Check (Billy Beck)

"A Completely Different Conquest" - Watch now (2 mins) | Amsoc Will Be Different
New Ideal – Reason | Individualism | Capitalism

Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System - [image: Agustina Vergara Cid on the Immorality of the U.S. Immigration System] *Immigrants who “get in line” are punished for wanting to work.* The post A...
Comments on: Bert Kelly

By: Better to be popular than right « Economics.org.au - […] Bert Kelly […]
Cafe Hayek

Some Links - (Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the truth abou...
Origin Stories

Breaking Performance Addiction... - ... and wrapping up my first season of Origin Stories
The Great Recession Blog

It’s Crunch Time for The Daily Doom and Doom Time for The Great Recession Blog - The Great Recession Blog is officially done for good, and it remains to be seen if all my writing continues on TheDailyDoom.com. If my writing on economi...
Tribes – PERC

Supreme Court Misses Opportunity to Reduce Uncertainty in the Colorado River Basin - A lack of certainty in water rights inhibits the Navajo Nation's ability to build infrastructure, cultivate their land, improve water sanitation, and cap...
Stories by Rudi Edsall on Medium

Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? - Round 12 v Bulldogs — who needs a midfield anyway? I honestly did not see a way we could do this one. I was expecting an absolute massacre in the midfield ...
Alastair Cavendish: British Freedom

So They Smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven - Hot on the heels of the Theatre Royal in Stratford promoting a Black Out evening, a performance of the play Tambo and Bones which they...
The Gutter

Woden's Day Thing: 4/26/22 - All right already
The Market Urbanism Report Blog

Can Prospera Become A Startup City Blueprint? - The emergence of startup cities is a story we’ll cover extensively these next few years. Prospera of Honduras is a leading example.
Craig Biddle

On The Evil of Bringing Clarity about Objectivism to Young Minds - The post On The Evil of Bringing Clarity about Objectivism to Young Minds appeared first on Craig Biddle.
Energy – PERC

Conservatives Can Lead on Conservation and Climate Solutions - Supporting policies that leverage incentives and partnerships to protect our natural heritage should be a big part of our strategy to address environment...
Rational Optimist

Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people. - Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturda...
Matt Ridley - Blog RSS

Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people. - Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturda...
Search Results for “willey house stories” – Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Willey House Stories Part 22: Calling the Kettle Back—Chapter 7: Repatriation - In this seven-chapter subseries of the Willey House Stories, Steve Sikora reflects on Frank Lloyd Wright’s fireplaces, their purpose, and meaning—and the...
Points of Interest

Highlighting "The Parenting Handbook" - This fall, Montessorium was lucky to bring education writer Samantha Blaisdell onto our content team. Samantha is a former teacher, trained mechanical engi...
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Kathleen and Charles Moore Prepare to take their Fight Against Taxing Unrealized Gains to Supreme Court - In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new law was a reform of the federal tax code, but also included a provision called the Mandatory ...
StephenFranks.co.nz

Who’s calling the shots on co-governance? Lawyers or MPs? Will the Court of Appeal order disclosure? - On Wednesday 15 February the Court of Appeal will hear the arguments of two King’s Counsel, that the government should come clean on whether its lawyers ar...
Master Resource

‘Greenhushing’ Joins Greenwashing (woke firms in legal peril?) - “Fear among corporate firms of being called out on misleading and or exaggerated environmental and sustainability claims is growing as regulators clamp ...
Hunters and Anglers – PERC

Whose Land Is it Anyway? - A podcast about contentious access issues in the West. The post Whose Land Is it Anyway? appeared first on PERC.
Consulting by RPM || Free Advice Blog

Receipts for BMS Ep 254: Kark Marx Was Kind of a Big Deal - Here is the link to my podcast critique of Phil Magness’ promotion of his paper, co-authored with Michael Makovi, on Karl Marx. In this episode I allude to...
Knowledge Problem

Knowledge Problem archive 2002-2020 - This is the archive of the Knowledge Problem blog, all 4,690 posts. The search function will help you locate posts on the various topics Mike and I wrote a...
Cactus Kate

World Cup Wonderfulness - In Australia - I attended a World Cup final this weekend. No it was not the "team of $55m" wonderfulness final. It was a T20 cricket one. In Melbourne. England v P...
Coordination Problem

Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
Coordination Problem

Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
Bernard Darnton

Crab Nebula: the Real 4th of July Fireworks - On around the 4th of July 1054 a supernova exploded, creating the spectacular Crab Nebula. It was recorded by Chinese astronomers but was it also recorded ...
Mencken's Ghost

Announcement: New Substack Publication - I have started a new Substack Publication. Details:
Cities Matter

Auckland at a Turning Point 2: Marking Down the Labour Market - *Reality Bites* For some years I have been calling out the over-exuberant growth expectations behind Auckland’s planning. I have also argued that creat...
American Consequences

The Silver Linings of the April CPI Report - May 18, 2022 Despite persistent inflation, there are good investment opportunities ahead in several niche areas. The post The Silver Linings of the April...
Focus on Right and Wrong, Not Right and Left | SEPARATE!

Our Individual Rights Are Going Down The Bathtub Inflation Overflow Drain - I’ve recently tried to brush up on my inflation skills. Being young and ignorant the last time it seriously impacted ... Continue reading
A Lady on Fire

How to Lose - Anger is not the answer. I. Calibrating to Humanity The first company I ever started was with my partner who’s also a software engineer. We had spoken to a...
Organic Architecture + Design Archives

JOURNAL OA+D V10:N1 :: COMING SOON - $20.00 - JOURNAL OF ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN VOL. 10 / NO. 1 :: COMING SOON :: THE WORK OF MACKIE AND KAMRATH :: ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE IN TEXAS Essay by Katie P...
The 1014

Blog Number 7 - Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph. Insert main opening paragraph...
Julian Burnside

Witness J – Another Victim of National Security’s Tightening Grip? - Too few Australians know about the case of Witness J – not to be confused with the case against Witness K and Bernard Collaery, itself a disgraceful overre...
Drinks and Drinking

Where Have I Been? - Hello friends, I’m grateful and flattered that people continue to look at this blog, considering I’ve updated it once in the last four years. Thank you for...
Center for Industrial Progress

Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
Center for Industrial Progress

Holiday talking points, me vs. a catastrophist climate scientist - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Here’s what I’ve been up to that may be of interest. My top 6 talking points for conversations this holiday se...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
Armed and Dangerous

Sample post. - Checking to see if RSS works.
Catallaxy Files

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The Rational Capitalist

The Rat Cap Podcast: Episode 13 - The Rat Cap Podcast: The History of Slavery and the Western Heroes Who Abolished It (libsyn.com)Slavery has existed everywhere since the beginning of time....
No Minister

Die MSM, Die – Systemic Corruption - Die MSM, Die – Systemic Corruption
Mish Talk

The Psychology of QE is Far More Important Than the Amount of It - Let's discuss what QE really does vs the psychology of QE.
Check Your Premises

Two upcoming events. - There are two upcoming events that are likely to be of interest to Ayn Rand Society members. The first event—the one not put on by the ARS—is a panel at ...
'The Critic' Magazine

Senator Marco Rubio says business-as-usual with Beijing is “not an option” - In an exclusive interview with Kapil Komireddi, the US senator condemns the Communist Party of China as a "genocidal regime" which poses "the greatest thre...
Travel Secrets by Shar Lemond

No Highway by Nevil Shute – Book Review - *“Therefore, go forth, companion: when you find* *No Highway more, no track, all being blind,The way to go shall glimmer in the mind.* *Though you h...
Scott Holleran

Remember the Alamo - I first learned about the Alamo in earnest from the late John David Lewis. This Objectivist thinker and teacher demonstrated the central facts about the ba...
Comments on: Wind Turbine Noise: Real Impacts on Neighbors

By: Joshua - My home is about 4000 feet from a proposed 650 foot 5mw turbine and 7000 feet from another. Can you respond to what your recommended setbacks may be for th...
The Long Run

The launch of the new Economic History Society website – and the new home of the The Long Run blog - The Economic History Society is very happy to launch its new website as of November 2020. This site streamlines everything that the Society has to offer, i...
Urban – PERC

Fire Insurance Regs Hurt California Homeowners - The unintended consequences of California’s price restrictions on insurance rates leave insurers unable to cover losses after catastrophic wildfire damag...
Kiwi Gun Blog

More Evidence of Buyback Failure - The Kiwi Gun Blog has been gathering as much hard data as possible to prove what a disaster the gun buy back was. Here is a classic example – The wonderful...
Stories by MIT Legatum Center on Medium

Making the UN Global Goals A Reality: Why Trade, Enterprise & Weather Intelligence Matters - The UN General Assembly is this month marking 75 years since it came into being — 75 years of international cooperation, dialogue and work for developmen...
The Devil's Kitchen

NHS Fail Wail - I think that we can all agree that the UK's response to coronavirus has been somewhat lacking. In fact, many people asserted that our death rate was unique...
News - Democracy Action

Revealed: Auckland Council spends $129 million in six years on duplicated iwi consultation, targeted Māori spending - *A new briefing paper co-published by the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance and Democracy Action reveals that in just six years, Auckland Council spent at le...
John P. McCaskey

History of ‘Temperature’: Maturation of a Measurement Concept - This is the accepted manuscript for an article to be published by Taylor & Francis in Annals of Science. Accounts The post History of ‘Temperature’: Matu...
Quote Unquote

Waikato Times letter of the week #92 - From the edition of Saturday 22 August. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the *Waikato Times.* *Driver licen...
Joakim Book | Life of an Econ Student

Publications, June - Summer is here, and here's this month's breakdown. For more news about my publications, follow my work on Authory and on Twitter. *HumanProgress.org* -...
Center for the Legalization of Privacy

Barr and Wray are Coming For Your Apple Encryption - An extra I did earlier this week, after Tom Hall sent me the video of a press conference by Attorney … Continue reading →
Legalize Privacy

Barr and Wray are Coming For Your Apple Encryption - An extra I did earlier this week, after Tom Hall sent me the video of a press conference by Attorney … Continue reading →
Kuo's Gulch | Justice, Independence, Productivity, Honesty, Integrity, Pride, Rationality

Man and His Inherent Productivity - If there’s anything we have learnt from the Coronavirus pandemic, is that people are willing to submit themselves to authoritarianism for the sake of a fal...
Malthouse Blog

Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann - Staff Profiles in Courage: Ryan Mann There’s a new crew on deck at the mighty Malthouse. Old faces have left for new adventures, replaced by a new inter...
Coffee House

In Congo, the Church is doing the government’s business - Once I am sure there’s nothing going on I step inside letting the door thud shut The opening lines of…
1828 – Championing Freedom

How to improve the UK’s election debates - Gordon Brown expressed regret over enabling television debates in the UK. In their recent form, it is easy to see why: they are rarely insightful, overly r...
Inductive Quest

William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 6/Final Part) - Previous posts: William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 1) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Induction" (Part 2) William Whewell's "Discoverer's Ind...
Comments on: (Expensive) markets in everything

By: Zaphod Dentbrox III PHD - You guys are a bunch of suckers for hipster creatives at an ad agency,
sportreview.net.nz

Cricket world cup final FAQ - This content was lovingly emailed to general sporting masochists in EMERGENCY Sport Review newsletter #70 – join them and get this carry on every week at s...
A Force for Good | How economics, morality, and markets combine

New Blog Location; This Page is Now Defunct - Hello. A Force for Good as permanently relocated to my personal website: www.jonmmurphy.com. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. This website will...
Montessori Rocks

Encouraging Problem Solving - “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” –Maria Montessori This quote speaks volumes to what the end goal is in a Montessori ed...
Carl Menger Center for the Study of Money and Banking

Internationalization of the Yuan Continues Apace - To the unobservant, which includes most politicians, the United States remains a strong and resolute empire. Just witness the statements from Democratic ...
FDR Liberated

Stefan Molyneux and “My Sweet Bomb in the Brain” - I used to think that the worst thing about Stefan Molyneux (well, except for the racist/misogynist part) is that he doesn't seem to know a lot about scienc...
The Sand Pit

The value of value-added in schools - We’re developing New Zealand’s first contextualised value-added model to help evaluate New Zealand secondary schools on a variety of outcome measures. Joel...
EconTalk

Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Cows, Carbon Farming, and Climate Change - Journalist and author Moises Velasquez-Manoff talks about the role of dirt in fighting climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Velasquez-Manoff exp...
Oswald Bastable's Ranting

Are you mad?- oh wait... - Of course. You would have to be be barking mad to want to bring this rabble to NZ. But then socialists are mad by definition. It's not as if we don't have...
Planetizen

A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners - A New Green Thumb Tool for Planners James Brasuell Wed, 07/12/2017 - 09:00 Primary Image [image: Philadelphia Park] "A joint venture between The Nature Con...
For The New Intellectual

Surrealist Writers Union Goes on Strike -
makingnewzealand

The Argument for Stopping Urban Sprawl - It's true that only about 1 part in 125 of New Zealand's land area is covered over in sprawl, with much less than that being actually built on (much of the...
The Dim-Post

Half-formed thoughts of the day - I was thinking about the Women’s March on Washington, and the global nature of it, and also the global nature of the White Nationalist movement: Trump, Put...
The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog

Sherman Booth House For Sale - The Sherman Booth House in Glencoe, Illinois is for sale. The asking price is $1.9 million. The house is a late Prairie Style design, dating from 1915. T...
PrairieMod

Richard Neutra Pillow - *Vendor: *Printful *Type: *Pillow *Price: * 34.00 A simple way to dress up any sofa, chair, bed, or room with a pop of color and a bold double-sided gr...
Blog - Minkz

Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters, new work by Mina - [image: NewlyDrawnGirl.jpg] *Ichigo Ichie, Moment Hunters - new work by Mina opening 12 March, 5 - 8 pm* On a recent trip to Japan, Mina fell in love wit...
Affordable Auckland

Prices Only Going Up in Auckland - New figures showing Auckland’s median house price have reached a record high of $820,000 comes as no surprise to Affordable Auckland spokesman Stephen Berr...
Life Behind the IRon Drape

Signing off - My Last Blog Post | Nicky Hager; Heather Du Plessis-Allan; Deborah Hill-Cone; Giovanni Tiso - Individualism & the Tyranny of Each Other. - The secret of being a bore is to tell everything – Voltaire. When the last human who understands individualism passes, so will pass the entirety of h...
Tibor's space

Reflections on Modern Democracy - Democracy – but only when it goes your way! Tibor R. Machan Over the years of watching the democratic process I’ve noticed something important. People ten...
Politics without God

Should You Try to Be Morally Perfect? - Off-topic but perhaps of interest... Back in March 2012, I gave a lecture titled "Should You Try to Be Morally Perfect?" as part of the CU Boulder Philosop...
The PRODOS blog

Liz Cheney: Obama is uniquely dangerous president - Above video is set to start at 9 min 46 sec. Transcript Megyn Kelly: Do you think that President Obama is dangerous? Liz Cheney: Yes … I think there’s no q...
THE WEEKLY WRIGHT-UP

Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home. - *Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home.* *--*Matsuo Bashō, (Japanese poet, 1644-1694) from *Oku no Hosomichi* Jack Quinan and Sandra Q....
TheBubbleBubble.com - Warning About Post-2009 Economic Bubbles

Jesse Colombo’s Interview On The Doug McIntyre Show On 790 KABC - I had an interview with Doug McIntyre on 790 KABC today, and here is the audio file. I will also upload this to Youtube shortly. Jesse Colombo’s Interview ...
Te Papa

Vulgar cartoon offends everyone equally - A vulgar cartoon that ran in the Marlborough Express yesterday has caused enormous offense to absolutely everyone, including the cartoon’s artist, who has ...
Titanic Deck Chairs

Flexible Tactics, Integrated Strategy, Inflexible Purpose - While reading Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History by John David Lewis the other day, I came across something that I knew im...
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