Retail gasoline prices have been falling for the past month, due both to decreased demand in the post-Labor Day driving world and to increased supply. This AP story summarizes the results of the most recent Lundberg Survey, taken every two weeks throughout the year.
The Forbes 400 issue a couple of weeks back had an interesting Richard Karlgaard article entitled “Where To Get Rich”. In it he compares different cities in the US according to their abilities to attract, and keep, smart residents: Best place to make a future FORBES 400 fortune? Start with this proposition: The most valuable …
OK, getting the archives all here was a bit more torturous than I expected, but it’s done. New content is next …
1. Public Choice: Politics Without Romance, an article by James Buchanan, the Nobel laureate public choice theorist, in Policy magazine. 2. A very cool post Umair Haque on double moral hazard, risk, and the recording industry. Link courtesy of Carnival of the Capitalists. OK, now I’m going to go nurse my headache of disappointment with …
I am still feeling molto dolorosa, so have not much to say that sparkles with any wit or originality, but want to point out some good content on rent-seeking, a pet topic of mine for many, many reasons (hey, when you work on a regulated industry, rent seeking is a familiar bedfellow). Sunday’s Carnival of …
Been putting the final touches on some changes around here, as well as starting to grade midterms, and trying in vain to buy a house for the third time in two years. So today is a very unhappy day. Sorry for the ether silence. Please note also the new email address listed here, which is …
Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal had an interesting little article on Congressional progress on the energy bill (subscription required). Not surprisingly, ethanol is playing a large role in the horse trading: The big winner in last-minute wrangling over the 800-page measure, which is estimated to cost taxpayers about $18 billion in tax incentives, appears to be …
Will be out of town for a few days, attending the US Association of Energy Economics meetings in Mexico City and giving a paper. Don’t know the wireless/hotel situation, so will have to be loosey-goosey about the postings. Back Wednesday.
Yesterday was a self-imposed deadline for Republican-led resolution of House-Senate conflicts over the impending energy bill. I’m shocked, shocked to say that they missed the deadline. Note the areas where they claim to have gotten agreement: The talks have been dominated by Republicans who have the votes to fashion the bill largely to their liking, …
Tyler Cowen has been making some very interesting posts over at Marginal Revolution (Alex Tabarrok has too, but I’m not going to say anything about them here, now!). I particularly thank and curse him for the reference to this normblog greatest jazz albums poll (although with RIAA Radar, I am loathe to buy many of …
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