Lynne Kiesling Randy Barnett reminds us that January 19 was the bicentennial of Lysander Spooner’s birth. His post has pictures, and cake, and useful links to background on Spooner for those of you not familiar with him. He was a stalwart in the early American republic. I love that his tombstone reads “Champion of Liberty”. …
Lynne Kiesling Ugh … so the KP host lost a disk, which is why we’ve been unreachable for the past few hours … Through the miracle of the RSS feed I was able to reconstruct the three posts from this morning, since the last backup, but I was unable to reconstruct the three comments on …
Michael Giberson The team working on the auction design for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has released their final report. The design group is top-notch and the report itself looks pretty good at first glance. What really stood out on my first look at the report, however, was the 50+ page annotated bibliography on …
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Michael Giberson Last Friday, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sent subpoenas to five power generating companies seeking to find out if the companies had properly disclosed financial risks associated with proposed new coal-fired power plants. All five of the letters accompanying the subpoenas are available from the NYAG’s website. Here is the opening paragraph …
Michael Giberson Rebecca Smith has an article on demand response in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal with all the surprise of “dog bites man” headline: “Incentives Prove Powerful.” Reporters don’t generally write headlines, so I guess she’s not to blame. (Oh, I get it, it is supposed to be a clever play on words. You see, …
Michael Giberson Would perfectly internalizing motor vehicle externalities make the economy less efficient? Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren of the Cato Institute make that claim in a paper advocating the repeal of federal and state gasoline taxes. The paper has picked up a couple of high profile econoblogging mentions – from Tyler Cowen, Greg …
Lynne Kiesling I am off today to the 2007 ISNIE meetings in Reykjavik, Iceland. The program looks great, and I am looking forward to presenting my paper on retail choice and end-use technology in electric power. I am also looking forward to seeing good friends, visiting Iceland, and maybe buying some Icelandic Lopi wool … …
Michael Giberson The U.S. interstate natural gas pipeline system may not be particularly exciting, but it is vital to the energy industry and that means vital to energy consumers. Need help getting started understanding this mostly invisible infrastructure? EnerPub has produced a thorough introduction. The U.S. natural gas pipeline network is a highly integrated transmission …
Michael Giberson If you, like J. Bradford DeLong, are wondering “what the hell they are doing that is worth that kind of money,” then Bookstaber’s book can help. One point of Bookstaber’s argument is to illustrate the problems with the term “hedge fund.” While “hedging” has a particular meaning, and “fund”, too, is well defined, …
Michael Giberson Stephen Dubner at the Freakonomics blog thinks the big thoughts: “If only God had had corporate sponsorship in the book of Genesis, when the world is created. Can you imagine the loot He could have landed for the naming rights of every animal, mineral, and vegetable?” This message brought to you by the …
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