Jed Clampett and the rest of The Beverly Hillbillies might have made their fortunes on black gold… Texas tea… but, even with recent price spikes, crude oil is still cheaper today than it was in 1861 (though nowhere near the astonishingly low prices of the mid-60s). When we think of
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John Hammond Professor of Crop Science Yiorgos Gadanakis Associate Professor of Agricultural Business Management University of Reading Welcome to this special report on the food industry, the fourth instalment in our series on where the global economy is heading in 2023. It follows recent articles on inflation, energy and the
Sri Lanka was something of a poster child for the WEF’s warmed-over green socialism. Naturally, the entire country went tits-up faster even than Venezuela. You might think this would cause the WEF to be somewhat chastened. But that’s to reckon without the single-minded fanaticism of globo-soc. Instead, the
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, TV and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
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Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Not so long ago, when the dollar was “as good as gold” and so were many other currencies, economists spoke of paper money that wasn’t connected to a precious metal as “irredeemable,” “inconvertible,” “unbacked” or “fiat.” None of those adjectives were complimentary. The world
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
The Doctor Last night I enjoyed a great film about a team of magicians who pulled off global bank robberies as part of their act. They were so far ahead in their planning that the FBI and Interpol were left fumbling around, clueless. I can think of no better description
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Periodically, following an accident, we read of someone falling into a coma then coming out of it a year or so later. Imagine such a Rip Van Winkle situation now with someone who say fell into a coma in mid 2020 and waking today. When
One of the unfortunate realities of 2022 has been rampant inflation and its effect on the ability to make ends meet for so many folk. Even I am rather glad my New Hope Coal dividend arrived last month (God I love fossil fuels!) for me to live on for a
Timing is everything in comedy — and in politics, too. There’s never a good time for a government to belt its most productive sector with what I call “puffy pants taxes”*. But there are definitely worse times to do so. Such as when said sector is on the brink of
There is a marvellous line in the movie Wall Street where Gordon Gekko is referring to fund managers and says, “They are sheep – and sheep get slaughtered”. But in much the same way as the mainstream media follows a specific narrative and ignores alternative opinions, so the financial community portrays
Donovan Clarke, CEO of Toitu te Waiora (I didn’t know either, so click here) used his work credit card for perks during a work trip to Australia in August. The cost to taxpayers was over $6000. Clarke was attending a Council of Ambulance Authorities (CAA) conference. The New Zealand
As I recently wrote, Europe’s idiotic infatuation with ludicrous “green energy” policies is leading it down the primrose path of destruction. Energy supplies are collapsing, right in the middle of the sort of winter the Climate Cult assured us would never happen again, and the continent stands on the
