The Unserious Case for CO2 Taxation Domestically and at the Border (Zycher in 2017 for today) • Watts Up With That?
The CLC proposal is poor conceptually and deeply unserious.
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The CLC proposal is poor conceptually and deeply unserious.
People are perfectly free to invest their wealth to help achieve political goals, but investment managers should not be induced to do so ostensibly on their behalf.
<p><span>Thank you, Ben [Zycher], and thanks to the American Enterprise Institute for the opportunity to be part of today’s event. Before I begin, I must remind you that my views are my own and not necessarily those of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or my fellow Commissioners. As an SEC Commissioner, I appreciate hearing about people’s views of the SEC, even negative ones. Recently, for example, an email came in saying, “I can’t remember when the SEC was held in such LOW ESTEEM. . . . I honestly believe the...
Yup, it's Earth Day today. (Also Lenin's birthday, but I am sure it is just a coincidence.) I know you can't contain your excitement. But try. As always, today is a good day to check in with Mark Perry's list of 18 predictions made on the first Earth Day in 1970 that have all proven spectacularly wrong. My favorite: Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970,
The only thing that could have made President Biden's State of the Union speech worse is if he had droned on and on about climate change. In fact, as Ben Zycher notes, Biden barely mentioned the subject: the word 'climate' was only mentioned twice. True, his two mentions were absurd, such as this one: Second — cut energy costs for families an average of $500 a year by combatting climate