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The thinking must be that young people don't vote anyway and when they get old, they will like their parents.Common DreamsGOP in Danger of Losing Younger Generation of Voters Over Climate Policies: Report Eoin Higgins

[unable to retrieve full-text content]FoxConn, Valerie Bauerlein. Microsoft News “Six miles west of Lake Michigan in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin lies a cleared building site half again as big as Central Park and ready for Foxconn Technology Group’s $10 billion liquid-crystal-display factory. Contractors have bulldozed about 75 homes in Mount Pleasant and cleared hundreds of farmland acres. Crews are widening […]

"But how will we pay for it?" The bill for all the negative externality that has been socialized is coming due.TruthdigThe $70-Trillion Climate Bill Coming Our WayTim Radford / Climate News Network

I’ve written a blog post about what the recent federal budget means for Canada’s housing market. Points I make in the blog post include the following: -The budget contains several initiatives designed to make it easier for households of modest means to become homeowners. -Such initiatives are often framed as being win-win propositions, while their unintended consequences are rarely discussed. The link to the full blog post is here. Nick Falvo is a...

I’ve written a blog post about what the recent federal budget means for Canada’s housing market. Points I make in the blog post include the following: -The budget contains several initiatives designed to make it easier for households of modest means to become homeowners. -Such initiatives are often framed as being win-win propositions, while their unintended consequences are rarely discussed. The link to the full blog post is here. Enjoy and share:

The school children who have been protesting to stop climate change every Friday have understood a basic truth: They are being betrayed. By politicians. By business leaders. And by an entire generation of denialists. I would add "yet" to "the kids aren't nearly angry enough." It's coming. It took a long time for the growing rage about the Vietnam to surface in the media.Spiegel Online The Kids Aren't Nearly Angry EnoughA Commentary By Christian Stöcker

The concept of opportunity cost “The opportunity cost of anything of value is what you must give up so that you can have it.” is the central theme of my book Economics in Two Lessons,due out in the US on 19 April and hopefully in Australia soon after that. My central claim is that two lessons based on opportunity cost and their relationship to market prices provide a framework within which almost any problem in economic policy can usefully be considered.…So, I was impressed to see Bill...

(Dan here…lifted from Bondadd blog) by New Deal democrat Climate change is the detonation of the Population Bomb You know the drill … it’s Sunday so I speak my mind on things non-economic….. Way back in the days of the dinosaurs when I was a young teen, I concluded that there were really only two extinction level threats to humanity: 1. Nuclear war 2. Overpopulation (a/k/a “The Population Bomb”) As to the first, fortunately we have gone over 70 years...

But few are focusing on the real measurable — not what it will cost economically to address the problem, but what it will cost economically to not address the problem. "Cost economically" here means exactly and only what the people at Forbes and Bloomberg think it means — How does economic activity slow when atmospheric temperature rises? How are profits and wealth affected? This analysis looks at no other factors affecting the economy, such as the cost of recovery from super-storms. One...

Not MMT but worth reading. Robert Hockett is an advisor to AOC. ForbesGreen New Deal Funding: Remember Finance is a Public-Private Franchise, Not a Big Broker in the SkyRobert Hockett | Edward Cornell Professor of Law, Cornell University See also Bloomberg OpinionHow to Design a Green New Deal That Isn’t Over the Top Noah Smith