Lynne Kiesling Jonathan Pearce at Samizdata has a dandy little post on the London Olympics and some words of wisdom from Milton Friedman. I was also struck (but not surprised) earlier this week by the estimates that cost overruns for the 2012 Olympics would be substantial, to the tune of around 50 percent at £5 …
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Lynne Kiesling Glenn Reynolds is hosting a digital camera carnival, with further entries today or Friday. In August I replaced my 6-year-old Nikon CoolPix (2MP, with a nifty rotating lens for self-portraits) because it has huge refresh and latency problems. Not a big deal for holiday snaps (grin grin, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no …
Lynne Kiesling Happy Thanksgiving to one and all. We are safely ensconced at my mother’s in Columbus and will be running in the local 8K Turkey Trot tomorrow morning.
Michael Giberson Texas state agencies spend as much as $50 million a year too much for electricity because they haven’t taken the government’s own advice to shop around. … So the state’s Council on Competitive Government this year hired electricity consultant LPB Energy of Dallas to help agencies find lower rates. The council expects the …
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Lynne Kiesling For those of us interested in the economics of things like “mass customization”, the department store is a fascinating phenomenon. A retail business model originating in the late 19th century, the department store for decades epitomized elegance, convenience, ubiquity of options. Then in the 1990s the department store fell on hard times as …
Lynne Kiesling Milton Friedman passed away this morning at age 94. How many of us first learned about economics from the TV series and book Free to Choose? From monetary theory to drug legalization, his intellect was strong and clear, and his ideas have had a large influence in spreading economic and individual freedom. I …
Michael Giberson Repeal of the Depression-era Public Utilities Holding Company Act of 1935 was widely expected to produce a kind of merger mania, as antiquated restrictions were stripped away and true wheelin’ and dealin’ could begin. There were dire prognostications of the nation’s utilities growing into multi-state powerhouses and eventually rolling up into four or …
Michael Giberson Warren Meyer at Coyote Blog cites news from Colorado of a successful $1.4 million lawsuit against a grocery retailer that granted discounts on gasoline to consumers that spent over $100 on groceries. The suit was founded upon the state’s “Unfair Practices Act” and filed by, you guessed it, competitors of the discounting retailers.
Michael Giberson On Sunday, the Washington Post published a short piece by S.R. Sidarth, the political volunteer who was the object of George Allen’s “macaca” mocking. Allen’s remarks probably would have passed unnoticed, relatively speaking, but for Sidarth’s capturing them on video and the video later showing up on Youtube. That moment, more than any …
Lynne Kiesling Iain Murray has an oped in Monday’s Examiner about environmental concerns and building new electric power infrastructure: One key problem is the sheer difficulty in building new power plants in America today. Politically powerful green lobby groups object to the building of any new plant that does not use some form of renewable …
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