Month: June 2009

global warming

Faking global warming

I have often mentioned before that the those impressive graphs of rising surface temperatures are faked, as if everyone knew, and everyone agreed, inadvertently imitating the mock consensus style of the warmists, without giving a citation.  Here is the article that exposed the fakery for the US weather stations The method is simple:  The raw …

economics

The universal government white paper:

In short, the white paper tells us: Politicians are of course entirely lily white and innocent, except that the other party allowed bad people in the private sector to do bad things. Some regulatory agencies failed to do enough. Solving the problem requires more power to the government. Those regulatory agencies that failed the worst, will get the largest increase in money and power.

economics

Inflation looms

The bond market does not tell us what the smart money people think inflation will be. It tells us what those among the smart money people who do not expect very high levels of inflation think inflation will be.

In addition to an on budget deficit of ten percent or so, there is also a much larger off budget deficit, in the form of an ever growing pile of government guarantees, which there is no will to restrain. Put the two deficits together, crisis looms.

Trees do not grow to the sky. That which cannot continue, must stop

politics

Creating the next crisis:

In a free market, financiers who take stupid risks lose money, and cease to be financiers.  The core of the Obama Bush interventions is to ensure that financiers who take stupid risks continue in business and continue in charge of other people’s money. In the Washington Post, Obama’s chief financial advisers explain their program: In …

economics

Internet Gold alive and well

Like Napster they demonstrated that the business model was viable, and also demonstrated that as soon as you started transferring serious money the US government would come after you. As a result, there are a lot of replacements for e-gold, which the US government will find hard to shut down

global warming

Global warming swindle.

Every so often you see these graphs supposedly showing how the world has warmed during the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries, supposedly based on surface temperatures. Steve McIntyre is launching a freedom of information request to find out what, if anything, these graphs are based on, and, of course, they are refusing.