News Sources
Recently, Eszter at Crooked Timber asked where people go in the morning for news. I start at Google News, then Yahoo Financial News, then The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. Then it’s off into the energy trades for me …
Recently, Eszter at Crooked Timber asked where people go in the morning for news. I start at Google News, then Yahoo Financial News, then The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. Then it’s off into the energy trades for me …
Last week the California Assembly passed new piece of electricity legislation, AB2006. The bill is meant to break the regulatory limbo in which the California electricity industry has been for the past three years. It contains the usual compromises to make it politically palatable, but also happens to contain some substance that would introduce a …
Here at the Admiral’s Club, read the paper on the train here … the front page article on what American retailers can learn from British retailers (subscription required) is very interesting. It only obliquely refers to one challenge facing American department stores, particularly in large cities — lots of people, women especially, can buy similar …
I’m off later this morning to a Liberty Fund conference on the works of Armen Alchian. Posting as possible. But heck, I’ll be in Santa Monica, right near the beach. Nothing personal, but …
Here’s an interesting story about Netflix, complete with an inane quote from “choice paralyzes us” Barry Schwartz. I love Netflix. What Schwartz and the other choice nannies in the world fail to appreciate is that having this choice, while increasing my options, makes my life so much more relaxed and my entertainment options so much …
While I’m blathering on about The Atlantic, I recommend Christopher Hitchens’s review of a new edition of Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. I have not always liked Hitchens’s writing style, which sometimes has veered into too much pompous asperity for my taste. But I love his long-format book reviews like this one. I …
The April issue of Wired had a nice little interview with economist phenom Steven Levitt.
So I was in Mexico last week, conveniently enough while Mike was posting our blackout report commentaries, speaking at a conference sponsored by the Mexican Congress on electricity industry reform. Mexico’s industry is state-owned, and is a substantial drag on the coffers of the Treaasury, which has amassed a large debt with the electric company’s …
Not surprisingly, I am really enjoying Russ Roberts’ and Don Boudreaux’s Cafe Hayek. Take, for example, Don Boudreaux’s recent post on Kerry’s reinvocation of the misery index, a 70s concept that should have, like Seals & Crofts and Hall & Oates, stayed in the 70s: One of my most powerful memories of the 1970s is …
The curse is gone. No, not the goat or black cat curse on the Cubs (for all we know that’s still there!) — the KP house-buying curse. In the past two years we’ve tried 3 times to buy a house: 1. 1924 Chicago bungalow, beautifully renovated, 2 blocks from current location. Got a contract. Inspection: …