Tim McMahon

Work by editor and author, Tim McMahon, has been featured in Bloomberg, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Forbes, Washington Post, Drudge Report, The Atlantic, Business Insider, American Thinker, Lew Rockwell, Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, Oakland Press, Free Republic, Education World, Realty Trac, Reason, Coin News, and Council for Economic Education.

Electricity Production Capacity Changes in 2019

Renewable Energy Trends in 2019

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According to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2019 will be a good year for renewables. A whopping 46% of new electricity production will come from Wind power and 18% will come from Solar Photovoltaic power with the remaining increase coming from clean burning Natural Gas for a total increase in generating capacity of 24 gigawatts (GW). On the other hand, 8 gigawatts (GW) of electrical generating capacity will be retired this year 53% of that will be coal fired, 27% natural gas and 18% will be nuclear powered plants.

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Freedom in the 50 states

How Free is Your State?

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Unlike many countries the United States is not “monolithic”. Freedom varies widely from state to state primarily because each state is the master of its own destiny. Although the Federal Government has been trying to exert more control, each state is still able to create their own laws, taxes and regulations. Each year since 2000 the CATO Institute has published its evaluation of the relative freedom of each state based on a variety of criteria including Fiscal Policy (30.4%), Regulatory Policy (34%), and  Personal Freedom (34.1%). Of course, each of these major categories is made up of a variety of sub-categories.

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Why Graphene hasn't taken over the world

Why Graphene Hasn’t Taken Over the World- Yet

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Graphene burst into the general consciousness in 2010, when the Nobel Prize committee brought its discovery to the attention of the world with its almost sci-fi inspired properties. Graphene is the strongest material ever tested, efficiently conducts heat and electricity, can be levitated by neodymium magnets and is nearly transparent. Graphene is a form of carbon that is so thin it is actually just a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. Since it is only a single atom thick it is considered two-dimensional rather than three dimensional.

Scientists had theorized about graphene for years, and although it had been unintentionally produced in small quantities for centuries it was not mass produced. It was originally observed via electron microscopes in 1962, but it was studied only while supported on a metal surface.

Then in 2004, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov  were able to isolate and further study it at the University of Manchester. This work resulted in them  winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the material graphene.”

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Opec- New Cartel

New Oil Cartel Threatening OPEC

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When reports emerged that India and China are in talks about forming an oil buyers’ club, OPEC was probably too busy with its upcoming June 22 meeting to concern itself with that dangerous alliance. Now, it may be time for it to start worrying.

“The timing is right. The boom in U.S. oil and gas production gives us greater leverage against OPEC,” the Times of India quoted an Indian official as saying last month after the formal start of said talks. The two countries, after all, account for a combined 17 percent of global oil consumption and they are the ones that would be the hardest hit if prices rise as a result of OPEC’s actions.

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Don’t Count Your North Korean Chickens Before They’re Hatched

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A few weeks ago, I was telling a few thousand of my “closest friends” on Facebook that you can’t count your North Korean chickens before they hatch. North Korea has a long history of provoking the West with Nuclear threats then backing down in exchange for “concessions” and a “Treaty”. Typically this means a cash bribe from the West in exchange for a worthless promise from North Korea.  After a while the Treaty gets broken and the cycle repeats itself.  

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Telecommuting

Work From Home Trends To Expect In 2018

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Working from home is more popular than ever as a new report has found that the number of remote or telecommuting workers has increased by 115% in a decade. As remote working gives employees more flexibility and allows them to have work-life balance, it appears that there is no shortage in remote job listings in fields such as real estate, mortgage, and accounting as they continue to grow every year. This year, the number of telecommuting workers is expected to increase with new trends in remote work on the horizon.

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UK Inflation 2017

Brexit and House Prices – What’s going on?

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The impact of the Brexit decision has been much debated, with many economists stating that the UK economy would be harmed by a decision to leave, whether that’s through a loss of cheap labour that powers the fruit picking industry or the restriction of movement for those in the Square Mile. Unfortunately, one of the biggest challenges with determining how the economy is performing is the ‘lag’ between the economic data being collected and the data being analysed and reported on. Take GDP growth for instance, which usually reports on the performance of the past three months. The financial markets on the other hand, often have an almost immediate reaction to political crisis’, and indeed fluctuations in Sterling have certainly occurred since the Brexit vote. But the financial markets don’t always accurately reflect the state of a national economy.

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Europe by Heritage-Language

Catalan: Independence or Revolution?

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On October 1st, the Catalonian region of Spain held a referendum similar to “Brexit” on whether they should leave Spain or not. But unlike Brexit and the vote in Scotland the results weren’t even close. In the vote in Scotland to split from England, the vote was close but narrowly voted to stay. In addition, prior to the Scottish vote Britain had given permission for the vote to occur in effect opening the door to the possibility. This was not the case in Catalonia where the Spanish Parliament is rabidly opposed to secession.

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