Lynne Kiesling One day last week, there was a large color IBM ad on the back page of the front section of the Wall Street Journal. This ad talked about the value to homes, businesses, and electricity companies of having plugs that could communicate information back to the electricity companies and network operators. They’ve run …
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Lynne Kiesling While I’m in England, Mr. Stumbling & Mumbling has a post on income inequality in 1987 and today. Punch line: no change; the progressiveness of direct taxation and the regressiveness of indirect taxation offset each other. But what caught my attention was how he led in to his discussion: Remember 1987? When Nigella’s …
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Lynne Kiesling Due to a sustained shortfall in rain, portions of Southeast England now face a drought order for the coming summer: England’s first drought order in a decade was imposed in the South East today as fears continued about a water crisis in parts of the UK. Sutton and East Surrey Water was granted …
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Lynne Kiesling Stephen Brown and Richard Alm of the Dallas Fed have an Economic Letter on the effects of economic freedom on oil supplies. It’s a very interesting read, with lots of insights. Having oil is one thing. Delivering it to a growing market is another. World economies differ greatly in their capacity to organize …
Lynne Kiesling Welcome to Peter Klein and Nicolai Foss, authors of Organizations and Markets. Looks to be a very interesting read; I have known Peter for a while and enjoyed his work. Peter has a post on market-based management today inspired by the WSJ profile of Charles Koch over the weekend, and citing the seminal …
This Popular Mechanics article on alternative fuels has a lot of good information. It doesn’t completely incorporate the economic costs of, for example, having to transport the ethanol to the point of consumption separate from the gasoline. But it does provide a very thorough analysis of the different fuel technologies that are currently under development. …
Lynne Kiesling Tim Worstall’s Tech Central Station column from yesterday brings together a lot of interesting observations on the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth report: By way of background, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the UN-sponsored organization looking into climate change on our behalves. We had the Third Report …
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Lynne Kiesling Catching up with my reading this morning, I see that Mr. Coyote seeks a big-government supporter as an intern to work on government compliance paperwork: … Frequent readers will know that much of my effort has not been business per se, but completing all the government waste paper needed to start a new …
Lynne Kiesling Speaking of ethanol and using the political process, Archer Daniels Midland third quarter profits rose by 29 percent: Archer Daniels Midland Co., one of the world’s largest agriculture processors, said Tuesday its fiscal third-quarter earnings rose 29 percent, driven by an increase in demand for processed oilseeds and corn byproducts such as ethanol. …
Lynne Kiesling Greg Mankiw recently posted about sugar quotas and ethanol, an interesting addendum to our discussion here last week where the ethanol tariff showed up in the comments. I also posted on protectionism and the sugar industry in the context of Splenda’s increasing market share in February 2005.
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