The Twice Lucky Country
The other day I was having a coffee with an old friend, and we pondered, among many other, usually more cheerful topics, about the state of politics today. “Isn’t it …
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Red stars in their eyes
Irony is still not dead, despite never-ending attempts on its life – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to slag off capitalism at an event to which tickets cost between US$1325 and $1650: …
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The price to pay for slavery
In a further sign of the Democratic Party’s drift to the left, two presidential contenders, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, have now expressed support for a policy that until now …
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$22,000,000,000,000 and (no one’s) counting
No one gives a shit anymore; after all, what’s another trillion between bipartisan friends? The national debt surpassed $22 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, a milestone that experts …
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Farewell to Carbs
In 19 years’ time, Germany will have no more coal mines and coal power plants, bringing to an end hundreds of years of successful history powering first the German Industrial …
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Getting free money makes people happy
Hot on the heels of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal, which includes a call for “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work” (or included, since AOC is now …
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Green Deal, Gone Girl
Ben Shapiro twitted yesterday that he is “increasingly convinced Trump created AOC in a laboratory to provide a comic foil.” Whether or not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was created by Trump in …
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Davos’ false dichotomies
I’m a globalist, you are a globalist, everyone’s a globalist (the term I don’t particularly rate, since like “neo-conservative” in the last decade, it has become a little more than …
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Do Australians have more fun?
Bari Weiss, one of the few sane, non-left people allowed to write op-eds for “The New York Times”, has just come back from Australia and penned this interesting perspective on …
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20 Best Books I’ve Read in 2018
Happy New Year to The Daily Chrenk readers. If 2018 sucked for you, as it did for many people I know, keep marching on, onward and upward; if it was …
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Three reasons the Liberal Party is heading for the slaughter
Try as I might I can’t imagine any possible, even unlikely, scenario where the Coalition government in Canberra manages to get returned in the widely expected May 2019 general election. To …
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The economics of the unicorn money
You could probably stop reading after the oxymoron “Bernie Sanders’ economic adviser”, but if you are as tolerant of differing viewpoints as TDC do read on: The radical idea of …
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Drain the swamp, lock her up, build the wall… and break them up
In case Donald Trump needs more of an agenda post-midterms, here’s a helpful suggestion from Glenn Reynolds: I’ve just finished reading Columbia Law professor Tim Wu’s new book on antitrust, …
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Capitalism is a sin
Two weeks ago, two of the world’s biggest leftist celebrities, Michael Moore and Pope Francis, met briefly at the Vatican, at the latter’s weekly general audience. At the time, I …
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Welcome to the middle class, world
While the media has been obsessing about Judge Kavanaugh and whatever President Trump’s latest rude tweet was, Brookings reports on an epoch-making event we’ve all missed: Something of enormous global …
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Till debt do us apart
I feel like the voice crying in the wilderness. I have been writing about government debt, both in the United States and in Australia, for a long time because I …
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Congratulations Poland, you’ve made it!
It’s been a rather rough three centuries for this formerly largest and one of the most powerful countries in Europe. During its golden age, Poland – or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth …
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Not getting Uber rich
Just as I am sceptical of the social claims of tech boosters, I prefer to take my breathless futurism with a grain of salt. Yes, new technology can be disruptive, …
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Public sector workers’ paradise
How many people are employed in Australia by all three levels of government? If you have answered “too many”, you are correct. If you have answered “almost 2 million”, you’re …
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Who’s got the best life?
Over the weekend I come across an article published by the Foundation for Economic Education two years ago, titled “Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer than Most of the United …
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