Lynne Kiesling Tim Worstall has a post about an Oxfam proposal to enhance the well-being of small coffee farmers. He links to and quotes an article as saying Oxfam stated coffee … processors should fund, along with rich-country governments, the … destruction of at least five million bags of coffee stocks, Tim then does some …
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Lynne Kiesling On Wednesday the General Accounting Office issued a report on prospects for meeting energy demand in the 21st century. From the abstract: America’s demand for energy has, in recent decades, outpaced its ability to supply energy. As a result, the country has witnessed rapid price increases and volatility in some markets, such as …
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Lynne Kiesling OPEC has just announced its intention to boost production by 2 percent in April, in response to which prices fell to below $55/barrel. See one of these many news stories for further details and analysis.
Lynne Kiesling Taking a quick break … found this lovely recipe for Carbonades Flamandes at Chocolate & Zucchini, a French foodie blog that I enjoy. Sounds just the thing for a late winter/early spring weekend dish. She even suggests making your own pain d’?pice instead of buying one. I can get a decent one here …
Lynne Kiesling My friend Knitress was right on both counts: Martha’s poncho was crocheted, and made from Lion Brand’s Homespun yarn. The Lion Brand website has a crochet pattern for it up now, and will have a knit one up soon. Sorry, Manolo! Personally, this design is too boho for my taste. But I can …
Lynne Kiesling Back home, enjoying the early morning alertness that comes with east-west-flying jet lag … one of the first places I went was Virginia Postrel’s new Forbes column on the Barry Schwartz & Company anti-choice literature. I’ve always found these anti-choice arguments unpersuasive; at worst you can argue that too much choice can increase …
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Lynne Kiesling Most people who like to observe human action and its inherent dynamism (in tension with some inherent stasism, too) seem to be fascinated by cities. I love cities ? their histories, their energy, their culture, their architecture (and yes, let?s admit it, their restaurants, and shopping). The various neighborhoods in east London are …
Lynne Kiesling Although I am only here for about 48 hours, I did want to try at least one of the many exciting restaurants in London. In fact, the March 2005 issue of Gourmet magazine proclaims London “the best place in the world to eat right now”, and gives a lot of suggestions to support …
Lynne Kiesling In our few hours of leisure time some of us got out to enjoy the lovely Warwickshire countryside, including a quick visit to Charlecote Park and Kenilworth Castle. We also grabbed a quick half-pint in the quaint (some would say twee) pub in the historic village of Kenilworth: That’s our host, Lincoln Allison, …
Lynne Kiesling Tom Lenard has a post on the PFF blog in response to my post the other day about S.498. Tom says One reason I like the Burr bill (and liked its predecessors that he introduced as a member of the House) is that it contains perhaps the only truly deregulatory measure – in …
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