Lynne Kiesling Along the same theme from yesterday that other people are writing very sensible things about the folly of our current federal government policies, I draw your attention to Pete Leeson’s excellent op-ed in Friday’s Washington Times. His theme: business failures are a valuable and important part of economic processes, and when we stifle …
Lynne Kiesling Playing with color schemes today … some folks weren’t happy with the light text color of some of the text in the old color scheme, so I’m playing around with alternatives today. If you have a strong opinion about this simple blue-and-green, which keeps the blue-and-green that have been the KP hallmark since …
Michael Giberson Last week I attended the Gulf Coast Power Association‘s spring conference. Very good time. More comments later this week after I have time to catch up. Just a note today on the pre-conference power plant tour featuring the Tenaska Frontier Generating Plant in Shiro, Texas (about 50 north of Houston). The 830-MW combined-cycle …
Lynne Kiesling Some things catching my attention this morning: 1. The Kauffman Foundation’s Keith Mays reports on his time at the SXSW Interactive conference via Tim Kane at Kauffman’s Growthology blog. SXSW isn’t just a music festival; it’s a focal event for film and for digerati as well. In part he analyzes the role of …
Michael Giberson The Kauffman Foundation offers a video of Tyler Cowen talking about blogging economics and other topics. Cowen wraps up with comments on current economic conditions in the United States: If there is one point I could get through about the mess we’re in, it’s that even if you think that the government needs …
Lynne Kiesling Five years ago I wrote this post reviewing the Preston Vineyards 2002 Cinsault, and in it I said that we would drink our second bottle of it with a nice spring lamb stew, a navarin d’agneau, or navarin printanier as Julia Child styles it in my go-to Mastering the Art of French Cooking. …
Lynne Kiesling In today’s Forbes.com, Sramana Mitra has a column discussing the role of universities and taxpayer funding in innovation that contributes to economic growth. She is a thoughtful and insightful commentator, and I recommend the article, despite having a couple of disagreements with her argument. I do think she overstates the case against innovation …
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Lynne Kiesling Last week was our spring break, and the KP Spouse and I were in Colorado all week. I spent the entire week off-grid — no computer, no Internet, zip zilch nada, nothing but snow and books and music (and, toward the end of the week, basketball for the KP Spouse and our friend …
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