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GORES OF THE FINANCIAL WORLD
Australian National University economics lecturer Alex Robson:
It is a well-documented scientific fact that wherever Al Gore turns up to give a speech on global warming, temperatures suddenly plummet to record lows. Leftist economics professors are the Al Gores of the financial world: whenever they petition governments and make predictions about the horrendous economic effects of reducing budget deficits, the opposite happens.
Excellent column. Read on. Meanwhile, the mere mention of Gore has sent Sydney temperatures plunging to 17.4 degrees, about eight below the average December maximum.
Say what you will about Al. He may be the most boring man at the party, but you never run out of ice.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 11 at 11:53 PM • permalinkHmmm, I thought a Weather God would look a lot cooler.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 12 at 12:19 AM • permalinkI’m Mr. White Christmas, I’m Mr. Snow
I’m Mr. Icicle, I’m Mr. 10 Below
Friends call me Goremeister
Whenever I yap
All over the map
You’re driving through crap!He’s Mr. White Christmas, he’s Mr. Snow
He’s Mr. Icicle, he’s Mr. 10 Below
Friends call me Goremeister
Whenever I yak
It’s an icy attack
Tim’s keeping track!I never wanna know a day that’s over 40 degrees
I’d rather have it 30, 20, 10, 5 and let it freeze!The iceman cometh - break out the polar bears.
Posted by surfmaster on 2006 12 12 at 12:33 AM • permalinkMore about Gore and Gore-related cooling (although from a liberal Canadian source, busy blowing the enviros):
http://tinyurl.com/ycjot3Posted by andycanuck on 2006 12 12 at 12:43 AM • permalinkCorrection Tim. At 3.40 pm the temperature had risen to a balmy 17.6°C. Note the C designation - it stands for Celsius.
Posted by Piss Mohammed on 2006 12 12 at 12:58 AM • permalinkRobson is really referring to the old argument between Keynesians and Friedmanites which in a very real way parallels and reflects the arguments between the right and left today. One of the salient features of the Keynesians is that they command the “heights” of academia as does the left. It makes sense since Keynes assumes fundamentally that the government is the right instrument to regulate the economy while Friedman fundamentally thought they should stay the hell out of it. Sort of like the GW debate as well when you think about it.
Robson sounds unusually sensible for an academic. But I suppose every family has its black sheep.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 12 12 at 01:14 AM • permalinkUsually, it’s the lefty academic economists who generate such excrement. But you don’t hear marketplace economists making such comments. One group actually figured out how the economy works and are making loads of cash and the other group who should have been “kept down” a grade instead got “kept back” at the academy.
#13 - Friedman actually thought that Keynes was a brilliant economist but was just plain wrong and time has shown Friedman to be correct. The best proof of this comes from the example of Estonia. I remember seeing a list of people from history that Friedman would invite to dinner. Top of the list was Adam Smith (of course), I’ve forgotten 2nd (might have been von Mises) and Keynes was 3rd.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2006 12 12 at 02:00 AM • permalinkOnly slightly O/T, in the very same paper today at page 3 was an article claiming new evidence that our best and brightest, by which I gather the author meant female academics, were strongly reluctant to breed.
Oddly, they seemed to think there was some problem with that.
Other than it may not now be necessary I would have thought there were pretty strong arguments in that demographic for enforced sterilisation, Chinese style. Fortunately though, it seems the market is sorting that one out too, if the availability of willing mating material is any reliable guide. Hail those market forces.
Posted by lex luthor on 2006 12 12 at 02:08 AM • permalinkLeft wingers should never advise on economics. Right wingers should never advise on the creation of giant puppet heads. Both are out of their relative fields of experience.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 12 at 02:16 AM • permalink“It is a well-documented scientific fact that wherever Al Gore turns up to give a speech on global warming, temperatures suddenly plummet…”
...and gorges suddenly rise.
We Globalwarmupatologists call it “The Gore-Gorge Effect”.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 12 at 02:18 AM • permalinkO/T but New Zealand sheep should be pleased
Hmm.. but wrt to GoreBot, maybe not so O/T after all?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 12 at 02:36 AM • permalinkWhy don’t New Zealander’s take their girlfriends to the rugby?
They’re afraid they’ll jump the fence and eat the grass.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 12 at 02:39 AM • permalinkGlobal warming…global warming? Oh, yes, I remember that. Didn’t it turn into climate change after the millenium bug didn’t happen? Or was it Al Bore that did that? It’s so hard to recall these things because we’ve had so many family travails recently. Last week our pet budgie escaped from its cage and was eaten by a wind turbine, then one of the cats ... well, let’s say cats and the neighbour’s solar water heater aren’t good together, but the cat survived. The neighbour is upset at the prospect of cold showers. And TODAY…15C at noon, a fortnight from the summer solstice, it seems to be true: global warmening is causing climate change.
The cat is snuggled up under a blanket. The neighbour is shivering.
Damn, he’s going to be unpopular on campus.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 12 12 at 04:04 AM • permalinkMore O/T and definitely NOT SAFE for work or for anyone wishing to have clear and perceptive brain function for the next 72 hours. ONLY view if you have prepared your brain suitably with at least half a bottle of scotch, a 44 gallon drum of Sumerian Mead and/or a full course of hallucinagenic drugs.
You have been warned (but who now, can resist).
I bring you, the most flattering aspect of Australia’s own social critic, the one, the only, Germs Greer!
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 12 at 06:01 AM • permalinkAlex used to have one of the most entertaining blogs around (see here), but he abandoned it several years ago. This article is very much par for the course: well argued, provocative, and putting lefties in their place with logical economic thinking.
I do rather wish I’d followed your instructions, SCD.
Who’s got the eye bleach? Forget it, I’ll just bang my head against the wall until I pass out.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 12 12 at 07:52 AM • permalinkPerhaps in one should change the spelling of the word economist, to say the appropriate, economissed.
As to AL-Gore, nice gig he has…this Gorebal Warmering stuff. Making more money than he was as a U.S. Senator. My guess is, he didn’t put enough cold cash in his freezer, as some of ours seem to have a want to do, AND certainly more than had the ‘hanging chads’, hung his way. Yes, I know being the President of the U.S., at least for AL, would have been a power trip, BUT then AL doesn’t like power, kills the Earth you know.
Although one would think (bad to do, of course) his families stock holdings in Occidental Petroleum, would lubricate his way to riches and he’d shut his fucking mouth.
He is SO big around the world, that for instance our Weather Channel(R-circled) now has a program devoted to Gorebal Warmering, headed by the ugliest, scrawniest, lady I’ve ever seen. I mean why tell us what the weather will be today, when as a Meteorologist, one can tell us with utmost accuracy, what the next meteor will do?
I mean she is so god damn ugly, she’d scare buzzards off a shit wagon.
Al Gore, on the other hand, should be sent to the planet Mars to begin terraforming for human habitation.
Venus. Venus is too hot, Mars is too cold. Sending Gore to Mars would just make things worse for Mars.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 12 12 at 09:20 AM • permalink
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17.4??? Perhaps we should be expecting a white Christmas.