New Catallaxy

  • Prideland

    I have often wondered what it must have been like for ordinary people in Russia, China, Germany, Cambodia, Korea, Iran, and other countries, to wake up and realise they were living in a country that had been overtaken by a sinister, fringe, and radical political ideology. Did they think the political madness would pass and…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #58

    A nation awaits its . . . Downfall (Der Untergang) released in 2004 and brilliantly directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, vividly recounts the last days of Hitler’s Nazi Germany in Berlin. This has been filmed numerous times before but none have come remotely close to matching this films depiction of the utter collapse and moral bankruptcy…

  • Money is the root of all inflation

    Had a blog on Quadrant Online on inflation. Basically gazumped by the Voice. So I thought I would share a slightly condensed version. Who knows some people might still be interested in economics, what with the Voice, climate change, transgenderism, and what not going on. There’s lots of talk about Philip Lowe’s tenure at the…

  • Open Thread – Tues 14 Feb 2023

    Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, Rembrandt, 1656

  • Looking at RE through the wrong end of the telescope

    Parallel universes and the revised energy story. According to the official narrative we are accelerating the move from dirty fossil power to clean and green power from sun and wind. That is the story in the developed nations of the west. In the other universe described by Mark Mills, we have gone as far as…

  • Meme of the Day #65

    h/t: Jung

  • Barbarians in smart suits and uniforms

    Impact of lockdown on babies This is a disturbing account of the way babies were denied normal human contacts during lockdown. Of course they were not the only ones, it is just another chapter in the ghastly story. Civilisation has a thin crust that normally restrains tendencies to barbarism until it gives way in times…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 11 Feb 2023

    The Shipwreck on Northern sea, Ivan Aivazovski, 1875

  • Saving the planet with solar panels?

    You have got to be joking. INCREDIBLY ENERGY INTENSIVE TECHNOLOGY How do we make things?

  • Weekend Reading #12

    Over at Ius & Iustitium, Anon, an attorney with federal and state executive experience, discusses the Iron Law of Tolerance as a zero-sum game. To wit, whatever is to be tolerated by law, the converse will be prosecuted. At The Federalist, Katy Faust discusses the good and rights of the children in the circumstance of…

  1. Perfect analogy JC. Don’t forget to look after yourself also. When we are confronted with a major fright like yours,…

  3. Thanks all. The worst thing about this is that it resembles something like a locomotive coming at you at 5…

  5. The big supermarkets here operate on around 5% or so margin. I think it could be even less, but it’s…

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