My New Book! Don’t Diet: Research Nutrition
Okay, I don’t really have a new book. I’ve never tried a formal diet (mostly I research and speak on the economics of public policy debate topics). But like most people I have experience...
Author: Gregory Rehmke
End the Pandemic With Fat, Fasting, Feasting!
Just three weeks! Experts advise to wear masks, social distance, maybe return to lock down and then the virus could vanish and pandemic end. Maybe so, but epidemiologists, politicians, and bloggers disagree. With new...
Reducing U.S. Military Commitments
The Stoa debate league has chosen its 2020-21 policy debate topic: Resolved: The USFG should considerably decrease its military commitments. US military commitments around the world (Montgomery Herald, July 9, 2018) reviews the scope...
The Distant Metabolic Gift vs. Low-Fat Federal Dietary Guidelines
[Revised from original May 16th post] Mostly stuck in the pandemic, curious about Covid-19, social distancing, and lockdowns, plus regulation of testing, masks, and treatments. Best maybe not to watch evening news (better described...
Talks on Stoa Labor and Penal Reform Topics
Overview presentations with notes on two of the Stoa policy topics. Stoa 2020 Penal Reform Topic Stoa2020: Federal Labor Law Reform
Stoa Policy: Military Commitments, Labor Reform, Penal Reform
Stoa league has Policy and LD topic choice with analysis: Spring Vote 2020. 1. Preliminary notes and links, first on foreign policy: Can this new think tank clean up America’s flabby foreign policy? (The...
More on E.U. Immigration, Development, Humanitarian Aid
Economics of NCFCA topics playlist are posted. These are early versions of presentations I would give at Economic Thinking workshops, and overheads are drawn from past similar debate topics. Below are more recent videos...
NCFCA Topics: E.U. Migration, Development, Humanitarian Aid
The NCFCA debate league announced three topic choices for the coming school year:1) The European Union should substantially reform its immigration policy.2) The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its development assistance to...
Energy Battles: From Chickens, Pigs, Cows, Fish to Wind, Solar, Hydro, Gas, Coal, Nuclear Competition
Energy is big business, and so is food for human energy. Students can gain insights into energy policy and politics by looking at the competing supply ecosystems of the food industry. Ranchers, pig farmers,...
Fiat Money Inflation in France
From the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise of National Socialism in Germany past inflations have wrecked civilizations (see Commanding Heights segment on German hyperinflation). Current inflation disasters include Venezuela and Zimbabwe....