Lynne Kiesling Chris Carey’s work at Bailout Sleuth is supremely important for holding the federal government accountable for its decisions and actions with respect to their financial bailout plans. He’s carrying our water. Especially after yesterday’s change of federal strategy, much commented on elsewhere. I think Katharine Mangu-Ward sums it up pretty well at Reason …
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Lynne Kiesling [Yes, I am truly in real-world issue avoidance mode …] I love the occasional Wired articles on technology history, and this one is near and dear to my heart … on 11 November 1856, Henry Bessemer received a U.S. patent for his steel production technology. The article also gives appropriate credit to American …
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Lynne Kiesling Due in part to my trying to process everything that’s going on in the economy right now, and in part to my being in denial about some of it, my morning attention is drawn to this item: listening to your favorite music is good for your heart. In my case I suspected as …
Michael Giberson Jeffrey Ball at the WSJ’s Environmental Capital blog describes Xcel Energy’s first steps in bringing Vehicle-to-grid power into its SmartGridCity effort in Boulder, Colorado: So far, it’s pretty small potatoes, involving exactly one car and one plug. But boosters say it has the potential to revolutionize – and revitalize — our aging power …
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Lynne Kiesling Two excellent economists offer advice well worth considering to Senator Obama. Tyler Cowen’s New York Times column stresses the importance of restoring confidence initially. Tyler makes a persuasive argument, although he does not offer any specific suggestions on how to do so; my fear is that the primary tactic will be to go …
Lynne Kiesling Several commentaries over the past few days have discussed the intersection of an Obama administration and entrepreneurship. One that does so directly is Bret Swanson’s opinion piece in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, which casts President-elect Obama as an entrepreneur himself. Importantly, and correctly in my opinion, Swanson highlights the emergent, bottom-up nature of …
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Lynne Kiesling The folks at reason do us a service, albeit a sobering and disturbing one, by tallying up all of the bailout promises as of Friday. The total to date: Rough total: $2,063,800,000,000 That’s a little over $6,800 for every man, woman, and child, or just under $15,000 for each of America’s 140 million …
Michael Giberson The post title is drawn from the conclusion of Roland Horne’s essay, “The future of petroleum — and of petroleum education.” The essay runs through a peak oil explanation – citing advocates and critics of the concept – and offers a sort of mild endorsement of peak oil theories. However, Horne suggests that …
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Michael Giberson Recently Southwestern Public Service (SPS), a local utility affiliated with Xcel Energy, issued two RFPs seeking wind power and dispatchable power resources. Among the language in both RFPs, an assertion that in evaluating the proposals “SPS seeks to diversify and minimize the development risk in its selected portfolio.” But, ideally, they should aim …
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Michael Giberson “Both voting and not voting are motivated by the thought that you are better than other people.” — Tyler Cowen Or maybe you’d prefer to have Gordon Tullock’s views on voting: Here is a link to a short video called “Voting Schmoting“. [HT to Frederic Sautet.]
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