Lynne Kiesling Welcome to those of you who found your way here via Brad DeLong’s very kind link to my earlier post linking to the Weiser-Atkinson “third way” paper. Some comments in response to the comments on Brad’s post: I am as skeptical of the FCC’s ability to engage in correct antitrust enforcement as anyone …
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Lynne Kiesling I am indulging myself this morning and staying home to watch Spain-Ukraine. My thoughts so far: -12 minutes in, Spain just scored off of a corner from a header by … you guessed it … Xabi Alonso! Yay! -Sergio Ramas is very visible and active for Spain -Spain’s using the offside trap to …
Lynne Kiesling In discussing the involvement of Russian politicians in economic decisionmaking in the natural gas industry, Tim Worstall says something that I think is key: I’d prefer that such a politician had nothing whatsoever to do with whether the gas kept flowing or not. With purely private companies you know that decisions are made …
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Lynne Kiesling Some random thoughts on the World Cup thus far: -I thought England’s performance in their Saturday win was lackluster, and I hope they are saving it for later. -But given that Trinidad and Tobago did so much better than expected against Sweden (and that was a fun game to watch!), England can’t phone …
Lynne Kiesling The attention paid to the “net neutrality” debate is reaching a crescendo. In addition to the posts here over the past month and the links contained therein, see these sources: The Wikipedia entry on net neutrality; a commenter asked earlier for a general overview, and this one’s OK Greg Mankiw’s entry on the …
Lynne Kiesling Congratulations to Levi Leipheimer on winning the Dauphiné Libéré race in Provence. This race is a great, grueling race through gorgeous parts of the south of France, ending in Grenoble. Leipheimer is one of the Americans to watch in the upcoming Tour.
Lynne Kiesling I just got in from the best run I’ve had in four years. Yes, seriously. 60 minutes, strong to the end, probably about six miles total. I’m totally jazzed. Some folks have very kindly asked how my triathlon training is going. Punch line: much better than last year. I credit one thing above …
Lynne Kiesling I will apologize in advance to Sturt for the fact that I am going to use his comment on my recent Australian wine post to illustrate a crucially important point about economic logic: It’s overstating it to suggest that the Australian winegrape industry exists purely because of subsidies. Winegrapes are an ag commodity …
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Lynne Kiesling Check out this very cool idea for reinventing capacitors with nanotubes to provide energy storage for portable devices. The capacitor, a 300-year-old technology for modulating current flow by storing small amounts of energy, stores energy via electrodes that separate a charge and thus maintain potential. But it can only store energy in proportion …
Lynne Kiesling Regular KP readers might have noticed my reticence to opine on the current net neutrality roilings (which is why I am grateful to Mike for picking up the slack). There’s a good reason for that: I don’t find either of the polemic, binary, extreme positions that are being argued and memorialized in legislative …
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