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What’s Behind China’s Big Traffic Jam
– September 3, 2010
"The world press has been fixated on the "Beijing" traffic jam that lasted for nearly two weeks. There is a potential lesson here for the United States, which is that if traffic is allowed to far exceed roadway capacity, unprecedented traffic jams can occur."
The Housing Bubble: The Economists Should Have Known
– August 27, 2010
"It is truly astonishing to watch how determined the economics orthodoxy is to defend its inexcusable, economy-wrecking performance in the run up to the financial crisis. Most people who preside over disasters, say from a boating accident or the failure of a venture, spend considerable amounts of time in review of what happened and self-recrimination. Yet policy-making economists have not only seemed constitutionally unable to recognize that their programs resulted in widespread damage, but to add insult to injury, they insist that they really didn’t do anything wrong."
Vancouver: Moving to the Suburbs
– August 23, 2010
"Canadians are not listening to "their betters" any more than Americans. US Census data indicates a continuing strong migration of people from the central cities and strong migration to the suburbs, despite heroic efforts on the part of the media and others to mask the reality."
Greenpeace's Carbon Footprint Takes Wing
– August 11, 2010
A recent publicity stunt by Greenpeace in Calgary only reveals the duplicity of this organization which flies activists around the world and fails to realize where the energy they use comes from.
The Need to Expand Personal Mobility
– August 1, 2010
"Reinventing the Automobile conveys a strong message that improved personal mobility is necessary and desirable."
Why the Great Plains are Great Once Again
– July 19, 2010
"The cities of the plains—from Dallas in the south through Omaha, Des Moines, and north to Fargo—have enjoyed strong job growth and in-migration from the rest of the country."
Toward Creating Sustainable Transit
– July 12, 2010
"Introducing competition and competitive contracting into a system now dominated by union and operating monopolies, combined with a shift in reliance from rail to buses, would go a long way toward curbing costs and increasing productivity."
'Poverty' Calls For Precision
– June 18, 2010
"Any program or initiative must have a clearly defined problem it intends to solve. Anything less risks squandering scarce resources, including those of people's time, interests and energy."
A People's Tax Cut
– May 27, 2010
Corporate tax cuts are in fact a pro-people policy, because the world is not divided between people and businesses. Businesses are made of people. Businesses are people. The choice is rather between pro-growth and anti-growth policies.
Understanding Profits
– April 22, 2010
"Water services should meet the cost of the capital they employ (that is to say, make normal profits), just like other utilities such as electricity and gas. If they don’t, capital will be misallocated because it could produce more social value in other uses."
Bringing Light, Health And Prosperity to Africa
– April 8, 2010
“Telling Africans they can’t have electricity and economic development – except what can be generated with wind turbines or solar panels – is misguided at best and immoral at worst,” Cudjoe declares.
Atlanta: Ground Zero for the American Dream
– February 20, 2010
"Our 6th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey found Atlanta to be the second most affordable metropolitan area with more than 1,000,000 residents and the 17th most affordable metropolitan area out of 272 markets in six nations. Portland ranked 180th."
When Welfarism Takes Over, Disaster Will Follow
– February 17, 2010
"The misery of Aboriginal Australia is a testament to the social disaster that results when the welfare state colonises responsibilities that are best held by individuals, families and local communities."
Climate conference organizers asked for trouble in Copenhagen
– January 8, 2010
"While activists had finally succeeded in getting most politicians to sing from the same song sheet – the Earth supposedly stands on the brink of a man-made climate catastrophe, leaders recited one after another at the United Nations climate conference in December – environmental groups have totally failed to convince governments to take actions that are even remotely commensurate with the alleged threat. "
Taking the Wind Out of Energy
– January 5, 2010
"Fiscal spending on green energy has created a financial deficit in the power industry as a whole, forcing the government to cut back 30 percent of handouts to the solar energy producers. Thousands of jobs have been lost—part of the country’s painful 19 percent unemployment rate. "
Climate Skeptic: We are Winning the Science Battle
– December 31, 2009
The scientists implicated in Climategate have misused peer review and pressured journal editors to prevent publication of research that questions their research. They have taken control of the IPCC process and they have smeared opponents personally, rather than critiquing the research.
North Hides Nefarious Aims Under Green Cloak
– December 20, 2009
"Environmental groups from rich countries have for years waged a campaign against those in poor countries who want to harness their natural resources for economic growth."
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Evidence
– December 18, 2009
"Instead of solid, reproducible scientific evidence, the bandito scientists offered hypotheses, speculation, assumptions, assertions, “hockey stick” graphs, computer models and worst-case scenarios – purporting to demonstrate that CO2 causes planetary warming … and the warming will be cataclysmic."
Living Better than the Kids
– December 8, 2009
The World Economic Forum's International Competitiveness Report ranks Australia's banks as 3rd most sound out of 133 nations. However, Australia has a serious housing affordability problem.
Cleaning Out The Climate Science Cesspool
– December 7, 2009
Worst of all, newly released emails from leading crisis-promoting scientists have exposed a cesspool of intimidation, duplicity and fraud. This is a serious crisis, because their views, data and models are central to reports by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the proposed Copenhagen treaty, and US cap-tax-and-trade bills, polar bear “protection” schemes and EPA “endangerment” findings. |











