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Home > Regular Features > Monday Message Board Monday Message Board August 14th, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. Categories: Regular Features Tags: Notify me of follow-up comments by email.Notify me of new posts by...

Home > Boneheaded stupidity, World Events > Millennials are people, not clones Millennials are people, not clones August 11th, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments The Washington Post has an article on millennial attitudes to Trump, broken down by race/ethnicity. The results won’t surprise anybody who’s been paying even minimal attention. Other things equal, millennials are even more hostile to Trump than Americans...

Home > Environment > Alternatives to Adani Alternatives to Adani August 9th, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments It’s obvious to anyone who cares to look that the Adani rail-mine-port project is an environmental and economic disaster area, and that claims that it will generate thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in revenue are nonsense. But that’s little comfort to people in the region, facing high...

Home > Regular Features > Sandpit Sandpit August 7th, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments A new sandpit for long side discussions, conspiracy theories, idees fixes and so on. Categories: Regular Features Tags: Notify me of follow-up comments by email.Notify me of new posts by email. Alternatives to Adani Monday Message Board RSS...

Home > Regular Features > Monday Message Board Monday Message Board August 7th, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. Categories: Regular Features Tags: Notify me of follow-up comments by email.Notify me of new posts by...

Home > Regular Features > My latest regular email …. My latest regular email …. August 4th, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments … is over the fold. Contact me on [email protected] if you’d like to be added to the recipient list. Hi all, Another edition of my regular email. Also, I’d appreciate any compliments, brickbats, suggestions on things I should say more or less about and so on. [email protected] I’ve had a...

Home > Economics - General > Another appearance (updated) Another appearance (updated) August 2nd, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments I’ll be on Sky at 7pm tonight talking to Peter Switzer talking about Zombie Economics and my views on the Australian economy. Update There’s a link to the talk here Categories: Economics - General Tags: Notify me of follow-up comments by...

Home > Economics - General > Special bonus talk: Customs House tomorrow 8am Special bonus talk: Customs House tomorrow 8am August 2nd, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments Any Brisbane readers interested in my talk on toll roads have a special opportunity to hear it tomorrow morning at the Customs House, with breakfast starting at 8am. It’s the UQ School of Economics annual Colin Clark lecture, and the scheduled...

Home > Economics - General > The nuclear renaissance dies, forgotten and bankrupt The nuclear renaissance dies, forgotten and bankrupt August 2nd, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments Unless you were paying very close attention, you probably haven’t seen the news that construction of two Westinghouse AP-1000 nuclear reactors at the Virgil C. Summer plant in South Carolina has been abandoned, following the...