We were sitting here last night, watching the USA-Nigeria game in the Women’s World Cup, in which Mia Hamm played brilliantly: Mia Hamm?s team mates have come to expect big games from her. But Thursday night?s performance in the USA?s 5-0 win over Nigeria was out of the ordinary even for the world?s all-time leader …
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Hal Varian’s Economic Scene column today is a very clear and succinct analysis of the dynamics underlying the current state of politics in California. His summary of the electricity crisis is pretty sound (although he does persist in calling what they did deregulation, which it was not). A highly recommended read.
With five games to go in the season, the Cubs are in first place in the NL Central. Who’d a thunk it? Back in June, when we didn’t fall prey to our usual “June swoon”, people started saying things like “if we can just stay in the running until September, then we have an easier …
For economics commentary from a British perspective, check out the new Adam Smith Institute blog (with thanks to William Sjostrom for the pointer).
Rick Mattoon of the Chicago Fed and I are the author’s of the Chicago Fed Letter, October issue, and the topic is natural gas policy and implications for the Upper Midwest region. Regular readers of TKP and Tech Central Station are familar with my analyses of natural gas policy, and this letter reiterates some of …
This BBC article describes a Shell oilfiled in Gabon where more wildlife congregates than in neighboring wildlife parks.
Kudos to Kevin Brancato at Truck and Barter for his terse explanation of the broken window fallacy. I remember after the Mississippi River flooding in 1993, Bruce Babbitt saying something like “well at least the silver lining is that the destruction will create lots of work.” I think I yelled loudly enough and long enough …
At the Volokh Conspiracy, Juan non-Volokh has a good set of posts on the economic and political dynamics underlying criticisms of the recent New Source Review changes, which I discussed in this post.
Future Pundit was full of all sorts of interesting news while I was gone, including this post on using bacteria to extract methane from coal (and a sidenote on carbon sequestration), and this post on new organic materials to make cheap solar panels. One remarkable thing to note in his discussion of the efficiency of …
10. Gorgeous weather — dry, sunny, overnight temps in the 50s, daytime temps in the 70s and 80s. 9. Gelato — ate some every day. The best quality and flavor combo we found was at a place in Florence called Vivoli, where we got the cioccolatta ricca (rich chocolate) and crema d’arancia (orange cream). We …
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