Lynne Kiesling I’ve found a new read that I really enjoy, Fey Accompli. A wry play on words. She’s a very eloquent writer on a variety of topics that are of great interest to me, and she takes a very dynamic, forward looking approach. I’ll take one example: Monday’s post on Stella McCartney’s new line …
Lynne Kiesling On Monday Stumbling and Mumbling had a post on truckers in the UK complaining about high fuel prices. I really like his suggestion: instead of whingeing and bleating for a political solution, why does their trade association not offer price insurance? The fact is, though, that high oil prices are a danger that …
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Lynne Kiesling Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal had an interesting front-page article (subscription required) by Rebecca Smith on TXU, the legacy Texas utility that is following unconventional utility strategies in its approach to Texas’s restructured retail electricity market. Smith’s article focuses extensively on TXU’s changes to its customer disconnection policies. TXU follows a 26-day late payment …
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Lynne Kiesling One of the most fascinating phenomena to be analyzed using industrial organization is the clustering of competing retailers. Ask yourself: why do Oriental rug stores all cluster in the same block? And what about car dealers? Don’t you want to be farther away from your competitors? Enter Harold Hotelling, who developed a simple …
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Lynne Kiesling Today Tech Central Station has an article from Amity Shlaes, an author whose writing I enjoy, on the selection of Paul Wolfowitz and John Bolton for the World Bank and UN, respectively. Her comments are consistent with my observations, although she does not point out that one thing that’s at stake is the …
Lynne Kiesling On Sunday Radley Balko had a disturbing, if not surprising, note about possible regulation of cable and satellite channels. He quotes a column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: A U.S. Senate bill authorizing government censorship of cable and satellite TV channels references children 44 times and the First Amendment not at all. His post …
Lynne Kiesling As you would expect in a large city, Manhattan has a fair number of good yarn stores: Purl in Soho, The Yarn Co. on Broadway at 82nd St., String on Madison Avenue at 78th St., Downtown Yarns on Avenue A, Knitting 321 on E. 75th St., Gotta Knit! on 6th Avenue, etc. A …
Lynne Kiesling Ed Reid tried to post the following comment on my post below regarding the GAO’s report on energy demand in the 21st century: I am concerned about the implications of “providing clear and consistent signals to energy markets”, as opposed to allowing free communication of clear signals among market participants. The US energy …
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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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