Robert Sweeney

Interested in economics, politics, etc. Views mine. Likes are mostly bookmarks.

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

@XEnergyIreland What are his wild assumptions?

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

Interesting when the right reveal their hand among themselves and why they are relatively fine with if not supportive of wokeism.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Tyler Cowen: “In retrospect, wokeism, for all its problems, was a relatively harmless way of distracting activists and keeping them busy with wars over words—a less-bad allocation of social energies than what we are now seeing.”

Pronouns are less harmful than socialism.

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

@Keyes https://t.co/zsaB9n24rT

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

@Keyes Finally:

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

@Keyes

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

@eoinmauricedaly Where can I find the original Eurostat report?

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

@pietergaricano European workers have long been better protected but protection has declined w/t time (e.g. Hartz). Has there been a structural change so its more important now? Or is it tech specific? Not as if the UK is a tech hub either.

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

@SCP_Hughes Re timing, in Ireland at least planning, planning regulations weren't implemented during housing bubble years but post-bubble it was. Also, population growth doesn't explain why metros are more expensive to build in common law countries.

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

@renewablesmiffy What are you basing that on - European offshore wind cheaper than nuclear? LCOE?

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.

The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

@terrorobe @SiemDeCleyn @JomauxJulien Is there any further analysis to substantiate that?

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

@youngsiward @danobrien20 What's the data source for this - is it publicly available?

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

@ciarannugent @blackrock0778 So he's dividing by total population instead of adult population? And because a greater share of Irish population are children, that lowers the Irish numbers?

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

I've noticed a tendency among the US left which (rightly IMO) views much urban planning as a resource transfer from from renters to middle and upper middle class asset owners. This is largely absent from left debate here and, it seems, in the UK.

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

"land-use regulations that unduly empower existing homeowners to veto construction at the expense of would-be first-time buyers is a predistributive policy that shouldn’t be ceded to the developer-friendly YIMBY crowd."
https://t.co/YugRdsKP0x

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

Awful, class-baiting headline. The 'spiralling' of welfare spending 'from €19.9 billion in 2015 to €27 billion' means spending fell from 11.8% to 8.4% of national income.
https://t.co/2osmiIE09K

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

@ciarannugent @nwl88444048 We don't do them regularly to ascertain trends. The last general crime survey was 2019, I understand.

[Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82]

@ciarannugent @nwl88444048 Reported crime stats (as opposed to crime surveys) are more or less informative of actual crime over an extended period (depending on crime type), but year-on-year changes tell us very little, absent a survey.