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Paul Joskow: What electric power regulatory reforms are need? A Federal Power Act of 2009

Further to my previous posts , excerpted below are the recommendations that Paul Joskow (energy expert, MIT economist and current president of the Alfred P Sloan Foundationn) recently made in a speech at the National Press Club : What is to be done? We...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Feb 8 2009

Filed under: climate change, power, deregulation, Kiesling, Joskow

The Conservative Conundrum

Interesting news this week with various outlets reporting that President Obama may not be able to function in a press conference without a teleprompter. It makes me wonder exactly how much information he’s being fed, and what he actually knows....

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Thu, Mar 12 2009

Filed under: Obama, Liberal, Conservative, nepotism, Bureaucracy, Limbaugh, Palin, Republican, democrat, Wayne Parker, Gingrich

The Fragile Welfare State

It's strike season here in Finland, unions are throwing their weight around and a peculiar situation is brewing in the healthcare sector. Healthcare services here are mainly provided by the state and municipals. The nurses are demanding a 24% pay...

Posted to libertas by Libertas est Veritas on Wed, Oct 17 2007

"Legal" Immigration

This is the continuation, or expansion, of this small item , that I posted earlier on this 'blog. In that post, I asked what benefit is provided by the legal immigration process to those of us already living in the good old US of A. I'd like to...

Posted to Ronorama by Ronorama on Fri, Dec 28 2007

The Pseudo-economics of Protectionism

Lately it seems that it has become fashionable on both the Left and Right to bemoan the evils of the trade deficit; however, this penchant for protectionism is founded upon a general lack of knowledge when it comes to economics. Let's examine a few...

Posted to Veritas by zsignal on Sat, Dec 1 2007

Filed under: trade, free trade, protectionism, trade deficit

Two Fallacies (Or Three?)

In discussing and debating economic and political issues, there are some rather ridiculous fallacies that are commonly manifested in public discourse. These fallacies are not directed at the content of one's ideas so much as the character of those...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Thu, Dec 6 2007

Filed under: Ethics, Subjective Value, Aesthetics, Personal Freedom, Means and Ends

Anarchism and Atheism, Theism and Statism

Anarchism and atheism are both defined in negative terms. As general paradimes they do not actually advocate any particular belief or system of organization. They represent the lack of a belief. Atheism is a lack of belief in deities and religions, while...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Fri, Dec 28 2007

Filed under: Anarchism, Ethics, Religion, Atheism

Voluntary action on climate change: Wall Street's new "Carbon Principles"

Voluntary action on climate change continues to grow. I'm not sure who noticed besides power project sponsors, financiers and regulators, but last week (on February 4) Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley , three of the world’s leading financial...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Feb 14 2008

Filed under: climate, Carbon Principles, voluntary

A View from the Trenches, March 5th, 2012: "Another lesson in the law of unintended consequences"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: March 5 2012 Let’s start by confirming that we remain long-term bullish of gold, near-term neutral of stocks (and long-term bearish of stocks), bullish of corporate credit risk, neutral of sovereign...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Mar 5 2012

The Decline of Morality in the West

I believe in objective secular morality, founded on reason and universalism. I think a common mistake is the idea that if we ditch religion, we must fall back on moral relativity. Then the religious people feed on this and get to accuse secular people...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Dec 22 2007

Filed under: Objectivism, Ethics, Universality, Determinism, Collectivism, Altruism, Religion

[Update] Mind Games/Luboš Motl: how an absence of functioning markets means that I'm right, but you're a delusional, neurotic "zealot"

[Update below] My last piece (on Bret Stephen 's straight-faced but ridiculous dismissal in the WSJ of all concerns about climate change as a "sick-souled religion" and a "nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jul 6 2008

Filed under: markets, AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Bret Stephens, preferences, Lubos Motl

Putting The NAP In Its Proper Context

I contend that the non-aggression principle is not a contextless axoim and it requires a specific definition of the difference between genuine self-defense and the initiation of violence. There is a grave problem that thin libertarianism and plumb-line...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sun, Jan 18 2009

Filed under: Objectivism, Non-Aggression Axoim, Ethics, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Vulgar Libertarianism

La conquista de los Estados Unidos por España

Por William Graham Sumner. (Publicado el 15 de diciembre de 2006) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/2398 . [Este discurso se pronunció por primera vez en la Sociedad Phi Beta...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Mar 29 2011

Filed under: William Graham Sumner, guerra, España, imperalismo

A Resonable Solution For the Problem We Have

The popular figure for the ‘bail out’ plan is $750 billion. This doesn’t include a proposed multi-billion dollar bailout of the auto industry. Bank failure, it is said, is the root cause of our economic woes. Lack of access to credit...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Thu, Dec 18 2008

More from Gene Callahan: do perceptions of "moral truths" make them objectively real, apart from those who perceive them (instead of evolved hard-wiring to cooperate)?

It has come to my attention that Gene Callahan has responded to my remarks regarding "objective moral truths" that I noted here . Rather than continuing the long threadjack of an unrelated post by Bob Murphy (on climate change science), I copy...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Sep 29 2009

Filed under: evolution, Callahan, Murphy, objective moral order, sociobiology