500 square miles is a lot of land. The South Australians are still rankled over losing it. Particularly because they lost it to Victoria. It all began nearly 200 years ago with a clock error. Victoria is too big!
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Strange times
Is this really news? To whom?
The race to dump net zero
It’s hard to keep up, sometimes. A decade or so ago, it was hard to keep up with the new paradigm, the “this time it’s different” mantra that to most sensible people reignited painful memories of the previous time it was different.
Continue readingDigging up stuff and selling it
I like investing in businesses that are simple and profitable, provided that I can buy my share in the business at an attractive price.
Continue readingInflation Bulletin
Did anyone see the headline this week regarding Producers Prices?
Continue readingThe sunny side of the street
I have three related pieces to share today that will remind us that normal people are sensible. By normal, I mean people other than politicians and the associated grifters that try to use political power to extract unearned money.
Continue readingWhat is going on in China?
The Chinese Communist Party has been in power for 75 years. How much longer can it retain its grip?
Continue readingWhy 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.
Continue readingYet another license?
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.
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