That’s the question we are posing in On Line Opinion’s May feature, and a recent news item might make it more newsworthy than I at first thought.

A 2010 paper by Harvard economists Reinhart and Rogoff was thought to show that growth suffers when a country has debt in excess […] Continue Reading…

Thank heavens there isn’t any climate change, at least any that humans are causing. Or maybe just any that the elite media in the US considers worthy of their reporting.

Recently both the New York Times and the Washington Post have cut back their environmental reporting and blogging. This article […] Continue Reading…

As I write this, the second suspect has been taken into custody. Obama says they will learn why. Not that any explanation can possibly make sense or be forgiven. If intolerance of murder and mayhem makes ME a barbarian, then someone has their sense of irony tangled up in […] Continue Reading…

The chances of Julia Gillard winning in September are probably about 15% – better than many of use would think. That is if results in Australian elections are in any way similar to US elections.

I’ve taken my odds from a table in The Signal and the Noise by Nate […] Continue Reading…

When I was in my early 20s I disapproved of most things that Margaret Thatcher did. Now I approve. What has changed?

Well, apart from a huge increase in experience on my part, what she did proved its worth. She took the UK from being an economic and social basket […] Continue Reading…

I thought some readers might be interested in this link spam proposition from Omnibuzz Media and my response. We are getting an increasing number of these sorts of propositions, which suggests that they must be having some success somewhere, but operators like this are best avoided. While the money […] Continue Reading…

You’d expect me to be happy that Gary Gray has been made the minister responsible for climate change, but what was the PM thinking?

I’m happy because Gary Gray is a fully-fledged climate skeptic, and there should be more of us in positions of influence.

According to Business Spectator, in 1999 […] Continue Reading…

In a week when Julia Gillard declared her intention to play the gender card by telling parliament “Misogynist Tony is back”, and her intention to lift journalistic standards who do you think she would call first to discuss her re-election as Labor leader?

Leading female anchor Leigh Sales? Or a […] Continue Reading…

Could Australia have prospered post-GFC by ignoring the fashionable economic nostrums. While the chief retailers of high economic couture here in Australia urge us to abandon producing things for service industries (or worse green industries), Joel Kotkin points out that the opposite strategy has prospered best in recent years.
Something […] Continue Reading…