Lynne Kiesling What are you doing at 10:10 AM EDT today? I’ll be prepping for a presentation I have to give this morning while I listen to the relaunch of my long-beloved WOXY. My recent paean to WOXY gave some indication of its importance and distinctiveness (or even, dare I say, uniqueness). Now it’s back. …
Lynne Kiesling I am sitting alone in my living room catching up on the day while I await the arrival of the KP Spouse so we can dine. I am indulging in a favorite alone pleasure: Virgin Radio UK on the spiffy music server (it’s too pop-y for the KP Spouse). Franz Ferdinand’s “Do You …
Lynne Kiesling Edmund Phelps has won this year’s Bank of Sweden Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Can’t argue with that, very important macro work that revealed the complexity of the interaction between inflation and unemployment. Tyler’s of course got the summary, and his take mirrors mine: But Phelps is not an economist who has influenced …
Lynne Kiesling This David Weigel article from the November issue of Reason made me very glad that I don’t live in Pennsylvania anymore (not that Illinois politics offers me any attractive choices either). The not-so-secret twist of Pennsylvania’s Senate race is that both candidates are trying to reshape their parties’ coalitions by tacking hard to …
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Michael Giberson I’m having trouble following the logic of the utility regulatory staff in Colorado on the issue of wind power, at least as described in the Denver Post article. Xcel Energy has a popular program through which they sell windpower at a premium to some of their customers — “more than 34,000 Colorado participants …
Michael Giberson Steven Pearlstein’s column in the business pages of today’s Washington Post takes note of Ticketmaster’s growing efforts to become the officially-sanctioned secondary market for an increasing number of teams, venues, and performers. As we have mentioned here before, active secondary markets for tickets can be a good thing for consumers as well as …
Lynne Kiesling In a recent Reason article, Shikha Dalmia writes an open letter to Vinod Khosla, entrepreneur and co-founder of Sun Microsystems. He’s now co-chair of a committee for the passage of Proposition 87 in California, which would create an oil extraction tax. Shikha strikes a lot of the same notes that I did in …
Lynne Kiesling Early last week I was attending the annual North American meetings of the US Association of Energy Economics. Some of the plenary speakers and papers presented focused on the need for technological innovation, particularly in technologies that will reduce the use of fossil fuels for transportation. Some people argued for the political process …
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Michael Giberson BBC News reports: Wholesale gas prices for immediate delivery turned negative on Tuesday as supplies surged in from the new Langeled pipeline from Norway. Britain’s gas storage capacity is 96% full so firms need to offload supplies. … After trading at an average of 26p a therm through September, the spot price for …
Michael Giberson Just released, the the U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force’s Final Report on the Implementation of the Task Force Recommendations. (PDF) At the present, I don’t find this announced on the U.S. Department of Energy website, but here is the Natural Resources Canada press release. Haven’t looked at the report yet, but I’m …
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