New Catallaxy

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…

Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, Rembrandt, 1656

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…

h/t: Jung

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…

The Shipwreck on Northern sea, Ivan Aivazovski, 1875

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

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…

Spy balloons over Barbados in 2016! Not quite a Chinese Spy Balloon (hereafter CSB), but a very good illustration of the principles involved in this kind of spying. It’s a product of the Google Loon project, development of which commenced in 2011 as a cheap alternative to satellites to provide worldwide internet connectivity by using…