Michael Giberson In the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Jim Fuquay reports that energy consumption is down sharply: Less gasoline. Less jet fuel. Less crude oil. Less natural gas. Less electricity. At the end of 2008, Americans were getting downright stingy with their energy use. Between wildly volatile energy prices and a deepening recession, Americans are curtailing …
Lynne Kiesling OK, I’ve migrated over domain hosting for KP and email to a combination of WordPress and Google Apps … so all of the legacy www.knowledgeproblem.com addressing, RSS feeds, and Google ranking should be intact! Yay. And thanks to Adam from Market Urbanism for his prompting on this item. BUT it may take a …
Lynne Kiesling While you are at the Chicago Tribune editorial page reading the local media commentary on our [sarcasm]humble and noble public servant Governor Blagoevich[/sarcasm], take a look at the sales tax calendar: Here’s the story: our Cook County government is allegedly full of a lot of the types of patronage politics that we’ve been …
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Lynne Kiesling Hi folks: comments are not posting, for some strange reason. They are showing up as published on the MT dashboard, but do not show up on the posts. If you have commented in the last 24 hours, your comments are still here, and Mike and I appreciate the conversation. I know a couple …
Lynne Kiesling Two excellent economists offer advice well worth considering to Senator Obama. Tyler Cowen’s New York Times column stresses the importance of restoring confidence initially. Tyler makes a persuasive argument, although he does not offer any specific suggestions on how to do so; my fear is that the primary tactic will be to go …
Lynne Kiesling Is this a misguided attempt to protect intellectual property? TechDirt reports that the BBC is threatening knitters that are knitting Dr. Who characters with legal action See also the Boing Boing post on the same story, not only for Cory’s discussion, but also for the awesome picture of the knitted Ood! While I’m …
Michael Giberson Tyler Cowen picks the market consensus over book-writing pundits: Either the current market estimate of inflation is the best estimate available, or you know that it is wrong and you will be a very rich man. I find the former scenario more plausible. Cowen is commenting on the Kevin Phillips book, Bad Money, …
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Michael Giberson The American Enterprise Institute conference on the Texas electricity restructuring effort organized by Lynne with Andrew Kleit, is now available on video for your viewing pleasure. Point your browser to the conference details page at AEI’s website and click on the video link listed under “Event Materials” in the upper right corner.
Lynne Kiesling Hmmmmm … well, for some reason comments aren’t working, so I’ll be disabling them temporarily while I finish the Movable Type 4.0 migration. My apologies!
Lynne Kiesling Over the weekend I upgraded to Movable Type 4.0, and this new design is a way-station in the migration to a fully redesigned KP. The entry interface is great, but there are still several kinks to work out on the design front. I’ve also kept a page with all of the links that …
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