Lynne Kiesling I knew Grant McCracken would pick up on and analyze the new Australian travel marketing campaign. If you haven’t seen it, here it is. What’s good about the line “So where the bloody hell are you?” is that it captures what I take to be a peculiarly national endowment. Australians have so perfected …
Lynne Kiesling Will Wilkinson recently had a post on the creation of new knowledge by location. Very interesting (even with the caveat about interpreting data mentioned in the comments). I think this is one of the most important questions of political economy we have: what institutions are successful at creating an environment conducive to the …
Lynne Kiesling Following on from yesterday … today OPEC did hold their quotas steady, and US crude oil inventories surged: U.S. crude-oil inventories jumped 4.5 percent to 335.1 million in the four weeks ended March 3, leaving supplies at the highest since May 1999. Last week’s gain was the biggest since Oct. 29, 2004, the …
Lynne Kiesling If you are an undergraduate or graduate student in the UK, I encourage you to check out the Freedom Week seminar offered 10-14 July 2006. It sounds like it will be a great workshop!
Lynne Kiesling I’ve been tagged by Aeon, so here goes (below the fold) …
Lynne Kiesling Along the same lines, James Hamilton has a good discussion of CERA’s oil supply forecasts for 2005 and what we can learn from them. One of the themes I’ve seen in the discussions about tomorrow’s OPEC meeting is the expectation that inventories have been building, and that the high inventories will contribute to …
Lynne Kiesling Yes, I’m trying to channel Alan Greenspan here … OPEC ministers are meeting now, and are stating their commitment to stable oil prices and maintaining their oil supplies. It does raise the question of whether the extent to which their utterances move markets is grounded in fundamentals, or is more like the media …
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Lynne Kiesling The KP Dad and I played hooky over the weekend and spent a few days in London. One highlight was a delightful evening with Mr. and Mrs. Seat, down from Edinburgh for the weekend. 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of the first time I set foot in London; it also marks the first …
Lynne Kiesling An elementary school in London is exceedingly chuffed about its GBP23,000 worth of solar panels to power 77 light fixtures. I agree with Londonist that they might get better value for money if they put the kids on hamster wheels and harness that energy!
Lynne Kiesling Sometimes the juxtaposition of two items highlights important themes. Today the Wall Street Journal published an article (sub. req.) describing some state efforts to curb retail electricity rate increases. Typically, these efforts take the form of lobbying for political and legislative action to ?control? rates; no mention is made in the article of …
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