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$35 Trillion — and Counting
"Interest payments on the debt alone surpass the budgets of many major federal agencies combined. At this point, federal debt service costs amount to approximately $900 billion, which is 17 percent of total federal…
Hurricanes and Other Evil Winds
"Extreme headlines fit a generally understood narrative and are far more likely to be absorbed by the public. This selective attention pushes a bias toward extremism in climate reporting that significantly inflames the…
Ruminations on Income Inequality
"Many of today’s low-income workers will be tomorrow’s middle-income workers; and many of these workers will be among the country’s highest-income earners sometime in the future." ~Donald J. Boudreaux
Janet Yellen calls for $78,000,000,000,000 to tackle climate change
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said during a speech in Belem, Brazil, on Saturday that the price tag for a global transition to a low-carbon economy amounts to $78 trillion in financing through 2050. Yellen said that in…
Harris’ ‘Equal Outcomes’ Is Dangerous To Your Rights
By Rick Manning “There’s an attack right now on diversity, equity, and inclusion… where supposed, so-called extreme leaders are suggesting it’s a bad thing to care about and pay attention to inequities, to say DEI is a bad…
Poll: Trump still leads Harris nationally by four points after dumping Biden
By Robert Romano Two steps forward, one step back. That might be the reaction of some Democratic leaders following President Joe Biden being deposed by his own party in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris, now the…
Don Ritter: The Green New Deal may decide the election — in the Republicans’ favor
Embed from Getty Images Sen. John Fetterman has indicated that energy would not be in the forefront of Pennsylvanians’ voting decisions this year, but he may not be accounting for its relation to inflation.
Why the ‘Green Economy’ Is Suddenly in Retreat—in Europe, America, and on Wall Street
"Green parties and environmentalists have had success largely by getting people to focus on the desired effect of their policies (saving people from climate change) and to ignore the costs of their policies." ~Jon Miltimore
Labor Isn’t Value
"The labor theory of value is wrong. Just because you worked hard at something doesn’t mean you have produced anything worthwhile." ~Art Carden
The more renewables Australia added the more expensive electricity got
If Australia gets any more free/cheap energy, we’ll go broke. The Australian Energy Regulator has the data on electricity pricing and possibly a budget of $20 million a year but hasn’t yet updated with the last quarter, so I…
