Subsidies
Whatever James Delingpole,
Regardless China,
Subsidies, subsidies, subsidies.
(Source: judithcurry.com)
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Use Adjectives
INTEGRITY ™, about excessive regulation and irrational fear
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Anger, confrontation and provocation
Jonathan Green, suggesting that this is the foundation of the populist business model.
Climate Change, energy security, and economic stability are inextricably linked, says the Pentagon.
A Show of Hands
[W]ith a tax, the price is set not by the market, but by the legislators’ personal beliefs about the costs, which of course people disagree on.
Since there is no such thing as an unregulated market, there are always taxes. If we follow Nullius’ argument, the price is never set by the market, and can therefore never be as “objective” as his claim would presume preferable.
Some hands are more visible than others.
(Source: collide-a-scape.com)
The Last Reader
I used the word “fear” for a reason.
Again with a commendable forthrightness.
Fears always have a reason, unless they don’t.
I fear using the word “fear” always have a reason, even by chance. For instance, in an old podcast from her delightful The Signal, the suave Laurie Brown is telling this story about Julian Barnes, who, in Nothing to be Afraid Of, is tempted to speak to his very last reader:
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Hayek told Fisher to set up what he called a “scholarly institute” that would operate as a dealer in second-hand ideas. It’s sole aim should be to persuade journalists and opinion-formers that state planning was leading to a totalitarian nightmare, and that the only way to rescue Britain was by bringing back the free market. If they did this successfully - that would put pressure on the politicians, and Fisher would change the course of history.
Adam Curtis, in his wonderful reportage on the birth of contemporary think tanks
