The Chinese Communist Party has been in power for 75 years. How much longer can it retain its grip?
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Why the Left always fails on public policy
The key to effective public policy is to understand incentives. Incentives are not particularly well understood. That explains why most public policy is bad policy.
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They say that to a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. When it comes to the retirement incomes sector in Australia, the equivalent mindset seems to sit within the head of Jeremy Cooper.
Continue readingReasons to be cheerful
About a year ago, I wrote a piece about the tectonic plate equivalents driving modern society: NATO expansion eastward, decay of western civilisation and Chinese communism.
Continue readingAny Greens paying attention?
To ask is to answer. Of course they’re not.
Rich energy hobbyist carpetbaggers
A prominent national journalist recently published an opinion piece about the crazy state of the Australian energy market. In it he referred to the small number of individuals that are trying to use political power to enrich themselves as “rich energy hobbyist carpetbaggers”.
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