Lynne Kiesling My fellow Chicagoan and knitter and all around hip chick, Bonne Marie Burns, is fond of pointing out that there are times when you have to boss your knitting around. Sleeve shape not turning out the way you expected? Feeling like once you’ve started a project your knitting is controlling you and it’s …
Lynne Kiesling In today?s Wall Street Journal, Rebecca Smith writes about changes under way in California (sub. req.) that would enable the three investor-owned utilities to offer their customers sophisticated digital meters and pricing options. The initiative that Smith describes is the culmination of a joint PUC/Energy Commission effort over the past three years to …
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Lynne Kiesling Thanks to the guys over at 2 Blowhards for their recent link to my recent energy bill rant. Since it’s generating readers, here’s more! But not from me. Here’s one from Jonathan Adler over at The Commons, with links to other commentaries. One of his links suggests that the “peak oil” corpses are …
Lynne Kiesling I do say! So does this this nifty little news story from northeastern Ohio. The story points out the importance of being able to compare prices, and how that transparency leads to the process of prices heading toward the competitive equilibrium. Hat tip: Division of Labour.
Lynne Kiesling Obesity has been much in the news lately, with last month’s study that indicates prior CDC extreme overestimates of the negative effects of obesity. Economist Steven Levitt waggishly observed that the information made eating fatty foods cheaper. And on these very pages I mused about the French paradox. Today comes two interesting additions …
Lynne Kiesling Last week’s Economist had several articles on energy policy, including this lead article on US energy policy and the energy bill that passed the House. This article does a nice job of pointing out what’s obvious, but obviously can’t be reiterated often enough, because it persists: US energy policy is a deeply-meshed rat’s …
Lynne Kiesling Chris at Stumbling & Mumbling has written a very thought-provoking why he won’t be voting in the UK election on Thursday. His reason 1 resonates with the standard Median Voter Theorem that we all know and love: 1. It?s none of my business. The main parties are targeting the self-interest of median voters …
Lynne Kiesling On Saturday morning NPR had an interview with UCLA urban planning professor Donald Shoup. His new book, The High Cost of Free Parking, sounds like it’s a worthy read. He makes arguments along the lines that nothing is free (where have we heard that before?), and that the cost of providing for free …
Lynne Kiesling Will Wilkinson has all sorts of good stuff going on right now, including an interesting post about free will and determinism. But I, like Tyler Cowen, will pick up on his mention of his increasing dislike of Thomas Jefferson. I can totally sympathize with this. When I was in 5th grade or so …
Lynne Kiesling Last week the Capital Spectator had a good post about oil, in particular prices and the Valero/Premcor merger. Note that since his post oil futures have fallen to around $50/barrel from $54-55 earlier in the week; that’s a large drop. Most of the price decrease probably arises from geopolitical discussions and has nothing …
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