I Was So Right About Beckham!
Lynne Kiesling He is going to the LA Galaxy, just like I said yesterday. I knew it!
January 2007
Frank Self-Knowledge From A Chicago Politician
Lynne Kiesling The big story in Chicago for the past few days has been the FBI storming of Alderman Arenda Troutman’s office to arrest her on bribery charges. Chicago politics always has some aspect of theater to it, and this instance is no exception. But what is exceptional is her frank honesty: Troutman, 49, was …
David Beckham to Mls?
Lynne Kiesling BBC Sport reports that David Beckham will not renew his contract at Real Madrid. What probability do you assign to his playing in the MLS next season? I assign a very high probability. Several European stars have ended their careers in the MLS (I think of it as a combination of level of …
NYT on Electricity: Metering and Asymmetric Information in Retail Markets
Lynne Kiesling Monday’s front-page article on electricity metering and pricing by David Cay Johnston highlights two important developments in modernizing electricity policy. One overarching theme in the article is that markets cannot function up to their potential when buyers and sellers face systematic asymmetric information. In the case of electricity, retail customers do not see …
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What I Did over Christmas Vacation
Lynne Kiesling Woman does not live by economics alone (although sometimes I come pretty close!). I made this sweater: This is the popular Rogue hoodie, which lots of folks have been knitting over the past two years. I started this in October, and finished it on New Year’s Day. Yes, it was a lot of …
Austan Goolsbee on Energy Independence
Lynne Kiesling Because of the web site trauma here and the AEA meetings I am late to the party, but Austan Goolsbee’s NYT Economic Scene column from Thursday is a worthy read. He makes a point that I’ve made here several times: over the past 50 years we have increasingly gotten more bang for the …
Tri-Shark 2007
Lynne Kiesling I signed up for my first planned trathlon of 2007 today: Tri Shark Sprint Triathlon, 2 June 2007. Off-season training is going well, although I’ve been a bit lacking in motivation during the past two weeks. One of the Christmas presents in the KP house was a “killer headwind” attachment to our bike …
Housecleaning Complete, For Now
Lynne Kiesling OK, two hours I didn’t have, spent re-posting three weeks of lost posts … at least it was over the holidays, so we were on light volume! Many comments were lost, for which I apologize. Two things made it possible for me to recover from my idiocy (I thought I had backed up …
… And We’re Back!
Lynne Kiesling Hi there. How are you? I’m fine. I hope you had a good holiday. We had a slight crisis here over the past few days, because on New Year’s Day I tried to clean up the MT installation here, with disastrous consequences. I’ve had to ask the hosting company to restore from backup, …