This is why oil will remain priced in US dollars
Browsing Category Energy and Green New Deal (or not)
Trump visits India. What would be great, good, bad or horrible. Cos media isn’t honest, I will be…
On February 24/25, 2020 President Trump will visit India. This could be an “India Reset”, diplomacy that reshapes geopolitics and finance, trade, defense. Or it may not.
Both are transactional leaders, both need a deal.
Because the media on both sides of the world will never accurately report the breadth of good news, I will give you the info so you can judge as the meeting concludes. I can, however rely on the media to reliably report whatever bad may result.
Greta anointed: “My deontological prescriptions don’t care about your consequences”
There is that person who thinks they understand the consequences of highly complex interventions on human societies by introspection alone. Not only do they think they understand the consequences of alternative policy choices, but they’re so confident that their understanding is right and that its truth is so obvious that the only explanation for disagreement is evil intentions.
The inefficient, odd Green New Deal, GDP growth and you
Climate change environmentalists often come bearing a Green New Deal.
The bundle presents itself most authoritatively in The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “scientific” recommendations”:
Carbon: Government intervention vs. the free market
Should we let the government pick winners and assemble cartels? Government isn’t very good at picking winners, losers are good at picking governments.
VAT tax. the Green New Deal, UBI and You
Like the guillotine, the VAT was first invented and implemented in France. VAT is a different taxing system, an additional burden, tacked unto every purchase the government decides is worthy of your punishment.If they deem books, then every book has a new cost.
VATs are collected at each stage of “production”, whereas retail sales taxes are collected only at the point of final sale.