Let’s see … the house is totally overwhelming. Some of the walls on the 2nd floor and the living room ceiling had some seriously degraded plaster, so our main wall guys have had to spend a lot more time (and a lot more of our money) rescuing the plaster than we had forseen. But it’s …
I am in Charlottesville, attending the Institute for Humane Studies Social Change Workshop, where I will be speaking on Thursday on a couple of things from my current research. More on that later …
Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a great front-page article on morel mushroom hunters. It highlights one in particular, and gives a lot of insights into how these entrepreneurs make markets, and make markets work better. When he loaded his family into a beat-up white Chevy van and drove here in May from his …
I’m having a Stephen Bainbridge day … his Tech Central Station article from last week on the impending Supreme Court case over interstate wine shipment sums up the issues nicely. He notes the hypocrisy of the claim that the bans are meant to prevent underage drinking, when in fact it’s bald-faced rent seeking: It cannot …
I commend Stephen Bainbridge for his summer reading plan to reread the entire Jeeves-Wooster cycle. “Ring for Jeeves” is great, and I concur with his observations on it. Before the great flurry of packing boxes and shuffling around, I was reading some early Jeeves-Wooster stories out loud to my husband. Even without the British accent …
The timing cannot be a coincidence … in the wake of two different sets of audio tapes and transcripts from Enron that illustrate quite explicitly how venal their traders were, California’s Attorney General Bill Lockyer has chosen this week to express public outrage at a FERC order issued on May 12, over a month ago. …
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In the “simultaneity of the determination of crude oil prices and retail information” department, expectations of increased summer gas inventories in the US has reduced crude oil prices. Note that this price change comes on the expectation of information on inventories that will be released next week. This reminds me of one of my favorite …
Because of house and work I’ve missed much of the gas price hoopla over the past month. Others have been paying attention, though, and I recommend this post from Steve Verdon for its wealth of quantitative analysis and information. Retail gasoline prices react to crude oil prices in a “rocket and feathers” pattern: when crude …
This Wired article profiles <a href=”http://www.garageband.com”GarageBand.com: Musicians who want to share and promote their music on the Net have yet another tool to help them reach eager listeners. GarageBand.com — a site that both hosts independent music and uses a peer-review process to identify hot bands — is offering the Creative Commons Music Sharing License …
Stupid me, what’s my favorite sport? Hockey. What happened last night? Game 7. Who arranged the Harry Potter schedule? Me. Doh! But the highlights looked great. I was pulling for Tampa because I think they generally play a cleaner game than Calgary, and it’s great to have players like Dave Andreychuk hoist the Cup after …
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