Economic issues
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
Education
Some reflections about education
Does Australia have poor quality teachers?
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
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