Lynne Kiesling On Tuesday, which Ray Gifford has named VOIP State Freedom Day, the FCC issued a ruling (press release) that precludes state public utility commissions from regulating VOIP: The Federal Communications Commission declared today that a type of Internet telephony service offered by Vonage Holdings Corp. called DigitalVoice is not subject to traditional state …
Lynne Kiesling Over at Truck and Barter, Kevin has a post on Wal-Mart’s next victims now that they’ve stomped all over the large toy store model. One of the next victims that Forbes names is retail gasoline. Retail gasoline is a natural extension of the Wal-Mart business model. Sourcing the product through a distributed supply …
Lynne Kiesling So I got two submissions for the Ohio voting outcome homework assignment: one from my virtuoso former student David Stone (and I can only, maybe, take epsilon credit for his virtuosity), and one from Ian Cook at Truck and Barter. Both got to where I expected, but took different routes to get there. …
Michael Giberson As any college student can tell you, the halls of academe are filled with half-truths and superstition masquerading as wisdom. No, I?m not talking about liberal bias among the professoriat. I?m talking about the student-to-student guidance about which foods, drinks, and other substances one should eat, drink or otherwise ingest in the attempt …
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Lynne Kiesling Over at Marginal Revolution, Alex reminds us of Tyler’s 12 economic policy recommendations for a second Bush term. I agree with Alex that they are all good ideas. One quibble, though: in point 5 Tyler says we should strengthen our commitment to science, by which he is referring to medical science. But one …
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Michael Giberson Bush won? That’s odd. The Redskins lost their last home game prior to the presidential election, which since 1936 has been followed by a victory for the non-incumbent?s party. (See REDSKIN HOME GAME ELECTION PREDICTOR) The TV announcers covering Sunday?s Redskins-Packers game mentioned this tidbit of trivia many times during the game. I …
Lynne Kiesling I hope Megan McArdle’s right, and that Jim DeMint’s replacement of Fritz Holling brings a much-need dose of free-trade into Congress. Actually, how do you think these results affect the probability of the textile protectionism that I mentioned on Sunday?
Lynne Kiesling OK, those of you with more time than I have today, here’s a homework assignment: take Ohio’s data on the number of provisional ballots received, and use Ohio’s county-by-county breakdown of votes from yesterday to estimate the final vote count if all provisional ballots are valid and if yesterday’s vote count is taken …
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Lynne Kiesling OK, so I’m a week behind the ChicagoBoyz, but hey! I’m the one with the bona fide shoe fetish! Manolo’s Shoe Blog is a great find, and find it I did via a Technorati cosmos crawl to see what new folks out there were linking to Knowledge Problem. This is hilarious. And if …
Michael Giberson The headline for Jerry Knight’s column today in the business section of the Washington Post reads “Got the Flu? Blame the Free Market.” Writers are not always responsible for their headlines, but the headline clearly reflects what Knight writes. If you get sick this winter, he writes, call it the “free market flu.” …
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