Index to my blog comments -- Part 4
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Economic issues
Sweden, GNP, and net national welfare
Was capitalism to blame for the 2008 financial crisis?
House prices hurting Australia and nation's policies making it worse
Why does Australia pay McDonald's workers more?
Opening up Australia's empty North to settlement and farming
Why investors are leaving 90,000 Sydney homes EMPTY and thousands more in Melbourne
Olives from Spain and tomatoes from Italy: Why?
Principles, Personalities and free trade
Does a private school education justify the extra money that it costs in Australia?
"A tide of privatization"? A prejudice in search of some facts
"Food security" -- wotta lotta ...
"Divestment": The Green/Left is trying to put money into the hands of bloated capitalists
This food shortage BS never stops
Australian Report Predicts Global Coffee Shortage Will Get Worse
Equal pay for equal work? No tsank you! As Harry Lauder used to say
Agricultural subsidies are bad for your pocket but are they also bad for your health?
What caused the Industrial Revolution?
Some jargon and a triumph of capitalism
Are immigrants economically desirable?
Australia isn’t the only country caught in a housing bubble
Race, IQ and wealth: A preliminary reply to Unz
Your poverty is in your brain
Poverty and IQ again
Material success and social failure? The Wilkinson & Pickett work
Why no increase in living standards?
Is it wrong for Western firms to make agricultural investments in Third world countries?
Why is Northeast Asia poorer than the USA?
Vladimir Putin and the limits of Russia's industrial base
Why is Northeast Asia poorer than the USA? Is it a problem that some big companies pay little tax? A case for a turnover tax
The Greek situation: A workshy and parasitical nation finally hits the buffers
Negative gearing: The Left never learn
A cogent challege to minimum wage orthodoxy
Where has that inflation gone?
Major Douglas and the "Social Credit" cult
Are there costs which outweigh the benefits of free trade?
Will N.E. Asia eclipse Caucasians by the end of this century?
The U.S. Federal debt
My experience buying boots is the perfect example of why retail is declining
Minimum Wage hikes don't cost jobs (?)
Real estate lessons from Tokyo?
Does poverty cause suicide?
Herrnstein & Murray are still right -- and very relevant to the healthcare debate
You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot -- and Sooner Than You Think
Capitol Hill GOP Spending Like Obama Is Still President
Farm Subsidies and the Farm Bill: Truth vs. Fiction
The Australian Senate must not pass large company tax cuts: Oxfam
$119,050,900,000: Merchandise Trade Deficit With China Hit Record Through April. Implications
Can unemployment go lower?
The stupid Leftist dream of "affordable housing"
Money and interest: Depressed billionaires are good news
Where Keynes and the Keynesians get it wrong
Life on the dole: $40 a day
The retirement savings crisis sweeping the world
The Queensland government is to legislate every tenant's dream
Universal pension for all: Retirees call for tax and income reform
Why Australia is printing money
Taking Australia back: PM announces tough new measures to stop foreigners buying our land and assets
The surprising stock market
UN warns that 2021 could be catastrophic due to COVID-19 fallout and famine
Man who strained his back picking up company car keys will receive workers compensation
European Commission threatens Britain
How Australians could become mega-rich by investing in these companies
Doughnut economics
Why won’t governments fix housing affordability?
How the pandemic changed our population
Fear not: a bit of inflation is no bad thing
Ticking time bomb of inequality’ to put owning a home beyond the reach of Australians born today
Thousands of homes left empty despite critical rental shortage: Why?
Rent crisis: 87,000 properties ‘empty’, water’s on, no-one’s home
Brisbane to charge Airbnb hosts higher council rates to tackle housing availability
How Big Is the Marriage Tax? Now We Know
Face of Australia's rental crisis: Single mum-of-two breaks down as she opens up on being left homeless after her landlord evicted her and she was rejected from 300 properties
Home insurance dilemma
Why would anyone bother being a landlord these days?
Did the Reserve Bank's money printing cause inflation? The bank says it's complicated
Low-rent behaviour by greedy landlords is feeding the rental crisis
Aged care rules ‘to set off collapses’s
Blaming Australia’s rental crisis on immigrants doesn’t tell the real story
The social housing bandaid
Is the cost of living leap caused by excessive government spending?
Mandated wage rises for the low-paid?
Is the cost of living leap caused by excessive government spending?
Community upheaval as great Australian home ownership dream dies
Homelessness: An analysis
Biden’s Bloodbath: The $1 Trillion Trade Deficit With The World Has Never Been Worse
Education
Would a return to "Prussian" education be desirable?
Dumbed down modern education: The loss of our heritage has been enormous
Some reflections about education
Sustainability Gone Wild in colleges and universities
"Free" university education for the poor: Was that first brought to to Australia by a Leftist government?
Is this the ultimate dumbing down of education? Has educational success now become just a popularity contest?
No math gene: Learning mathematics just takes practice (??)
A nasty memory of bigoted Leftism among American academics
Deep dishonor in America's Leftist academe -- Duke U
Even heavily propagandized college students prefer their own race
The great credential race
Does a private school education justify the extra money that it costs in Australia?
Training dummies as teachers is not the way to get good teaching
School nurses in Queensland
Bad schools: Bright British pupils do 50% worse if they're poor
Stop turning schools into training centres
The black/white education gap in Massachusetts continues
Just ONE HOUR of TV or internet use each night can damage a child's High School exam results (??)
Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges
Can a good teacher be bad for you?
Rich eccentric takes on a racist university: Harvard and Ron Unz
Australia's cultural heritage: parents who despise education
Boston Latin needs more diversity?
Where there are fewer of them, kids do better in schools
Private school kids earn more, live in better suburbs and are happier on average, Australian analysis discovers
Pre-school to prevent delinquency?
"Safe Schools" is not a return to the Cold War (?)
The dilemma I faced when my daughter won a private school scholarship
Is educational discrimination ruining America?
Harvard's hatred of its clubs for male students
Harvard's hate of its all-male clubs, eliciting lawsuit threats
Ms Zuckerberg regrets: A "modern" view of the classics
A typical Leftist whine that ignores crucial facts
What Does a College Degree Get You?
Teacher quality
Taking a second look at the learn-to-code craze
How America Is Breaking Public Education (?)
Is a tax on rich universities likely to harm upward mobility?
Grandparents' education gives year 3 students huge boost
Dating app for people who went to private school slammed. A NEW app exclusively for people who attended a private school has been slammed as “elitist”, “classist” and “totally ridiculous”
School envy and State selective schools
UK: Oxbridge's lack of black students a 'staggering' failure, says universities minister
The true mission of the lawsuit against Harvard
Why are boys falling behind at school?
The Problem with Elite Education
Business management studies
Education is NOT the great leveller -- not in Britain, anyway
New push for children to start school at the age of three
Boston exploring new entrance test for exam schools
Schools to promote "Stolen generation" story
Save your money on private school – DNA will decide whether your child does well at school not quality of education, leading geneticist claims
New Boston schools superintendent says her focus is on racial equity
Boston: Neighboring schools, worlds apart
Shifty research on formal examinations at UNSW
The Case for Inclusion and Diversity in the Tech Sector
Sydney university abolishing its chair in Australian literature
"Diversity" is a snark
Children who start school later gain advantage, new study shows (?)
Dysfunctional black schools
Insane childcare costs
The Intellectual and Moral Decline in Academic Research
UK: Leading educationalist ANTHONY SELDON has a stark warning about the uncharted waters of home-schooling
Unifying the Country Starts with the Education System
Language cuts risk Australia's regional relationships -- or do they?
The triumph of the selective schools
Why academics hold Thatcher and Trump in such contempt
Dunce teachers to be weeded out with tough test
The Left-led destruction of standards in the schools
Battles Erupt as Elite Schools Make Race a big issue
Nursery teachers must teach toddlers about 'white privilege' so they can learn to 'develop anti-racist views', unions say
High School Lesson Plans Tell California Students They’re Inherently Privileged If Male, Cisgender, White, Christian
Australia: Analysis of national test results shows no difference in effectiveness between public, private schools
Many of the new working class are college-educated -- and they don't like it
School censorship by conservatives
The snobby dark side of Australia's universities: How a State school student was 'humiliated' so badly at a university Open Day he almost gave up his dream of becoming a doctor
Psychotic Harvard
Seven Australian universities in Times Higher Education top 100
Do teachers deserve higher pay?
Do historically black colleges disadvantage their students?
Inquiry calls for universal preschool for three-year-olds to be rolled out in SA from 2026
Bombshell study reveals why spanking should be banned
Harvard rejects brilliant Asians in favor of poorly qualified blacks
Leftism is fundamentally incompatible with what universities do
Drumgold: The rise and fall of the boy from Mt Druitt
Arts (humanities) degrees are not what they used to be
Liberal MPs urge caution on religious discrimination in schools
The SIT, a most remarkable institution
How to Get Better Teachers in America’s Schools
Selective school students were asked if they were satisfied with life. Then they were scored
Wealth really does improve health – and here's proof
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