Economic Thinking Posts on Debate Topics
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 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,...
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....
The post below Twelve Monkeys: One CDC, was featured June 1, 2007 on Victor Niederhoffer’s Daily Speculations. Twelve years have passed since 2007, bringing astonishing progress, especially for the world’s poorest families. Matt Ridley...
An earlier post on fossil fuel and renewable energy subsidies (End Ethanol/Biofuel and Fossil Fuel Subsidies) noted not taxing CO2 emissions from fossil fuel energy has been called a multi-trillion dollar fossil fuel subsidy....
My 2018 MasterResource article Environmental Accounting and Green Subsidies: The Biofuels Mistake (December 4. 2018), was written for a World Schools motion calling for “environmental cost accounting.” For this year’s federal energy policy topic,...
Maybe it sounds crazy for families to generate their own electricity. Why not just rely on the local electric utility monopoly for power? Well, for one thing, monopolies (single providers) tend to have higher...
New Economic Thinking Monetary Facebook page for the Stoa banking, finance, monetary policy topic.
Here is new Facebook page for sharing energy notes and links: Economic Thinking Energy.
Energy is the master resource. Energy can draw water from the sea and pump it up mountains. Sending water down mountains to deep valley deserts generates energy and take the salt out along the...