Lynne Kiesling Is this a misguided attempt to protect intellectual property? TechDirt reports that the BBC is threatening knitters that are knitting Dr. Who characters with legal action See also the Boing Boing post on the same story, not only for Cory’s discussion, but also for the awesome picture of the knitted Ood! While I’m …
Michael Giberson The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is thinking about prediction markets and is inviting public comments on several questions as it attempts to sort out questions of public interest and appropriate regulatory treatment. (Now that I’ve mentioned that the CFTC is concerned with prediction markets, I’ll switch to the term the CFTC uses, …
Michael Giberson Chris Dillow at Stumbling and Mumbling considers the move of the UK Financial Services Authority to crack down on insider trading: The FSA is promising to crack down on insider dealing. No-one in the City feels the need to change his underpants. After all, what chance do public sector workers have of ever …
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Michael Giberson While Lynne was visiting Maryland in search of the perfect yarn score, I was in New Orleans for the Jazz and Heritage festival. I’ll share a photo or two once I have a chance to sort through them myself. In the meantime, I’ll share this article from the Monday morning Times-Picayune, which reveals …
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Lynne Kiesling In a post about how reducing your meat consumption can help you manage food costs, Megan McArdle has the best quote I’ve seen thus far about the food chain: Also, you may have noticed that meat is getting kind of pricey. Best bet is that it will go up before it goes down, …
Lynne Kiesling Long-time KP readers know that I am from Pittsburgh and I am a hockey fan. Newer readers may not realize that, because I don’t write as much about hockey here as I used to. In part that’s the disillusion and ennui that set in during and after the lockout. In part it’s been …
TV Technology, Economics, and My Rediscovered Love of Hockey Read More »
Lynne Kiesling I spent the weekend with two friends at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, the second largest sheep-based livestock and fiber festival in the U.S. It’s an overwhelming combination of county fair (complete with fair food), livestock show, livestock market, and fiber festival. It’s all about turning this into this And yes, I …
A Sheepy, Woolly Weekend, and Some Economics of It Read More »
Lynne Kiesling I handed out the Washington Post story on biofuels that Mike posted on Wednesday in one of my classes, and it was very timely, as they were presenting case studies of proposed biofuels investments. The one thing I went out of my way to point out to them was an appalling, shocking example …
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