A very long overdue closing of the browser tabs brings these worthies:
- There's now a big solar plant running in South Taranaki. Remember: this is the ETS and the electricity market working. The electricity market doesn't care about the source of the power; it pays the going rate. The ETS increases the cost of thermal and especially increases the cost of coal. This plant's from Todd Energy.
- If I'm reading this right, we could have a free trade agreement with India if we had more liberal immigration settings. That sounds like win-win, post-Covid. Unfortunately, political pressure in India leans against free trade unless it also helps make migration easier, and the current New Zealand government hates migrants and migration.
- Alcohol & Drug use, crime, and a proposal for Victoria building on both RAND's 24/7 study and New Zealand's Drug & Alcohol courts.
- Hungary's communist revolution didn't much affect intergenerational mobility. Greg Clark and co-authors look at surnames there 1949-2017 and find social mobility under communism was about the same as social mobility post-communism. 18th Century nobles families still do well. Romani do poorly under both. Did you know that Nicolas Sarkozy's Hungarian minor-nobility origins is indicated by the y at the end of his name?
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