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Misery Ahead
Pretence of knowledge is a phrase coined by Friedrich Hayek to describe the psychological predilection of those who believe they know enough to plan a path to economic plenty and who inevitably produce economic and social misery. John Maynard Keynes a contemporary of Hayek illustrates the mindset. A few years after The Road to Serfdom…
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Projects Pending Approval
Please distribute to your network those sections which may be relevant. I note the lack of projects in NSW whilst awaiting change in approvals process, where 89 renewable projects are prospective. See https://infrastructurepipeline.org/search Regards, Bob King. QUICK SUMMARY OF WHAT IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS:- LOCATED or ADVISED THIS WEEK 2/2/24 VIC Waste to Energy 6/2/24 Pottinger…
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Priorities
For most of 2022, and until the great counter-offensive broke on the Russian defence lines of Zaporozhzhia on mid-2023, it seemed that the greatest priority of the Biden administration, and most of Congress, was promoting and resourcing Ukraine’s proxy war against Russia. The problems were mounting up even before the June-July catastrophe. The NATO countries…
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Teals cushy in cloud-cuckoo land, disappointing about those poor sods out of work in Kwinana
I read, more or less at the same time, material which emanated from two places whose fundamental laws of economics appear to be quite different. I’ll call them down-to-earth land and cloud-cuckoo land. In down-to-earth land, ASIC reported that 243 manufacturers and 1387 construction companies went into administration in the second half of 2023; an…
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Bob King’s roundup
WHAT IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS:- Please distribute relevant sections to your network Regards, Bob King. QUICK SUMMARY LOCATED or ADVISED THIS WEEK 18/1/24 Moonlight Range Wind, Central QLD 9/2/24 Forecasting Assumptions and Gencost 9/2/24 Draft legislation on climate-related financial disclosures 23/2/24 Offshore Storage 24/2/24 Punchs Creek Solar, Toowoomba 22/3/24 House of Reps, EV’s and Batteries PREVIOUSLY 15/1/24 Western Downs BESS QLD, $600m…
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Rafe’s Roundup
THE REGULAR RASCALS Quadrant The Energy Realists IPA Net Zero Aust Spectator Jo Nova Centre for Independent Studies Conservative Vagabond The Monarchists The Free Press Bettina Arndt Menzies Research Centre The Sydney Institute IPA Mannkal Taxpayers Alexandra Marshall ` Australian Inst for Progress The Conservative Party CPAC
- Open Thread – Mon 28 April 2025
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- Open Thread – Weekend 26 April 2025
- ANZAC Day Thread
- Open Thread – Thurs 24 April 2025
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