New Catallaxy

  • Windwatching Sept 2023

    In case you were wondering SEPT 1 NEM Wind at 7.20am providing 3% of demand at Capacity Factor 11%. (CF is the % of installed capacity. 29% is the average.) SA the wind leading state, wind generating 4% of demand operating with CF 4. Victoria, wind providing 3% of demand with CF 4. NSW ,…

  • Open Thread Weekend 2 Sept 2023

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #81

    Feed the French. Kill the Germans. Well its been over a month since I lasted posted and I feel sufficiently refreshed and with time on my hand again to resume posting. So to start the ball rolling again I’ve selected a movie that has been requested by a number of Cats. Set during the World…

  • Wednesday, not the day, the girl …

    Tim Burton’s Wednesday, Cats – I was hugely sceptical until having realised the immensely talented adidas fan Miss Jenna Ortega had also appeared in various other televisual feasts I’d recently seen, most notably the second season of “You”. Spoiler Alerts, Cats … “Wednesday” may be among the last few gasps of Hollyweird greatness, which of…

  • Open Thread – Tues 29 Aug 2023

  • Kenny’s Voice for Simpletons

    I see that the Voice of distraction and misdirection was at it again in the Weekend Australian. Chris Kenny lays bare the No campaigns “Hateful Eight” scare tactics. I can’t cover them all. Here are the first three. I’m sure you can as easily knock down the other five. According to Kenny, it is a…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 26 Aug 2023

  • Getting them young / telling it like it is.

    One of the effects of the left’s long march through the institutions is the almost universal capture of young minds. Generally speaking, at least until the financial reality of life arrives – job, spouse, children and a mortgage – there they will remain. Consequently, the young and the left do not depict a normal distribution…

  • Economic miracle in Rwanda

    This is a remarkable story of economic success in Rwanda, three decades on from the genocidal Hutu-Tutsi conflict. Rwanda has become a rising nation. GDP per capita has nearly 8x’d while annual growth rates are often above 5%. It has formed a pro-business reputation, with relatively less taxes, regulations and corruption. Rwanda is ranked 38th…

  • The concept of “crowding out” and the dangers of untrammeled government spending (of OPM)

    Here we go, Cats, a return to the long overdue examination and discussion of matters economic. This will be the first of a semi-regular series of posts on key economic concepts that politicians, bureaucrats, academics and the braindead lamestream meeja (with some notable exceptions) are either unaware of, or incapable of comprehending. As someone who…

  3. GreyRanga November 24, 2024 9:04 pm The 7/11 ers were fantastic.As much as KD hates left-handers, he’s going to have to…

  5. “In the image of the heroic John Curtin, who apparently saved Australia” from a Japanese invasion, which he had been…

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