Young children paid $500 to set shop alight in Victoria’s tobacco and vape wars | The Guardian theguardian.com/australia-news…

The amended Stage 3 is bad policy. The original Stage 3 should have remained. We are overtaxed in this country.

Thread 🧵-- my latest for The American Conservative:

McKinsey & Company—the largest management consultancy in the world, the alumni of which include Pete Buttigieg and the geniuses who advised Purdue Pharma on how to “turbocharge” opioid sales—have published four studies since 2015 (“Diversity

University leadership is so often infantilizing that the simplest displays of maturity and seriousness are as impressive as they are rare.

Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element More is Less by Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka and Oliver Hart Free access available until 8 May.
cup.org/49PYJm6
#cambridgeelements #economics

For a universal primer on debunking anti-vaping bullshit, look no further than this masterful takedown of tobacco control submissions to Australia's Senate inquiry by the always-on Dr Colin Mendelsohn. Outstanding!
colinmendelsohn.com.au/senate-2/

Many anti-vaping submissions to the Senate Inquiry are flawed and misleading. They confuse correlation with causation, exaggerate risks, cherrypick data, draw false conclusions and rely on discredited sources

Here are some of the more egregious claims ⤵️
colinmendelsohn.com.au/senate-2/

You've probably heard market power is rising in the US. Everything is going to hell!

If you've wondering about some of the empirical evidence, this newsletter is for you 👇
economicforces.xyz/p/what-we-know…

London 'Blade Runners', showing off some of the (many hundreds) of traffic surveillance cameras they continue to destroy. They don't seem convinced by all the bollocks about 'climate change'.

Surprise! It seems 'the fix was in' for Albanese's huge $1bn splash of our taxes on a subsidised quantum computing fantasy. Secret bids, insider running & 'captain's picks'. All the horrors of 'commanding heights' socialism masquerading as industry policy::innovationaus.com/australia-inve…

April was packed with great articles. Here are my favorites: networklawreview.org/april-2024
Includes Daniel A. Crane, Assimakis Komninos, Thomas Wolf, Stanford HAI, Steven Levy, Harry Surden, Cass Sunstein, Robert Mahari, Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal, Ingrid, $in¢lair Davidson, Mario Leccese,

Rent Control Rhetoric. Comments on a lovely old essay by Friedman and Stigler.
grumpy-economist.com/p/rent-control…

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery.

Woot! My paper with Abigail Devereaux and Stu Kauffman, 'Creative evolution in economics,' has been published online at the Journal of Evolutionary Economics. It's open access, so download it immediately and start reading.
tinyurl.com/ahwnwymn

The spectacularly successful 'Blade Runners' continue to destroy traffic surveillance cameras in London (there to fight 'climate change'). Several hundreds have been wrecked. The local Green govt says this is 'greatly limiting' their ability to monitor our movements.

Eschif in Périgueux, France; was once a lookout for a toll bridge. It's an oak timber frame building with wattle & daub infill built in 1347 CE. Built that long ago and it's still standing and survived both World Wars.

Building was a lookout post that made it possible to guard

Friendly Reminder:

Ancient Towers of China :

They have been standing here for many centuries, but no one knows who built them and when. The towers in Sichuan province can easily compete with them for the title of most ancient skyscrapers: they are also very ancient, and their height is about 60

Humza Yousaf has resigned as First Minister of Scotland.

Here are his greatest achievements in office:

- He is the first SNP First Minister to not get arrested.

- He was the most reported person to Police Scotland for Hate Crimes.

Well. That escalated fast.