Michael Giberson Around my house, when we resort to the internet to answer questions like “What was the name of that movie last year with William H. Macy?” or “Who recorded ‘Oh Carolina’ before Shaggy did?”, we call it “consulting the Oracle.” Consulting the Oracle usually means Google, but for movie specific information I usually …
Michael Giberson The Washington Post reports an interesting story about efforts to restore electric power services in Iraq. The following paragraph caught my eye: Though Iraq has more power than it did before the war, Baghdad has suffered. The capital had a steady and sufficient flow of electricity under President Saddam Hussein, who supplied the …
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Lynne Kiesling Virginia Postrel had links late last week to a couple of stories that are near and dear to my soul, I mean, soles: women’s footwear. Now, as anyone who knows me personally knows, in my simplified Principles-of-Economics utility function, there are two goods: shoes and yarn. Sometimes it’s shoes and pizza, but usually …
A: Make a lot of graphs. A Post reporter discusses the economy with two economists from Washington-based think tanks, Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute and Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute. At one point Bernstein asks Hassett, ?You ever have your kid ask you what you do for a living? It?s much …
Michael Giberson Jerry Knight, business columnist for the Washington Post, reports on the other “Dutch Auction” IPO. While Google has had most of the press, New River Pharmaceuticals Inc. also went public this August via the open IPO. Knight reports that New River collected $33.6 million by selling 4.2 million shares. (Roughly 2% of the …
Lynne Kiesling Todd Zywicki’s return to private life includes an eight-part series of posts on the legal history of wine shipment regulation and interstate commerce in the U.S. over at The Volokh Conspiracy. As a public service, and to increase the probability of more people reading Todd’s wonderful and illuminating analysis, here are the links …
Lynne Kiesling You will note in the left margin that the final step of officialdom has occurred — Mike now has a KP email address. Kinda like the 21st century version of Steve Martin in “The Jerk” when he sees his name in the phone book … not that Mike isn’t someone unless he has …
Lynne Kiesling As if I don’t have enough regulatory reasons to want to bang my head against the wall … Iain Murray’s recent post over at The Commons about Pierce’s Disease, and how the EPA’s overbearing regulation of gene-spliced plants reduces the genetic resistance of the vines, is utterly appalling. This is a ridiculous regulation …
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Lynne Kiesling As I mentioned earlier, I have been thinking about status quo bias and policy change. So I was primed to be looking for things even when in leisure reading mode, apparently. I was cruising around and ended up at Sand in the Gears, where in a recent post Tony Woodlief points out two …
Lynne Kiesling I am enjoying the new Technology Liberation Front blog, with pithy comments from many notable technology and Internet analysts. Although I note a distinct absence of energy technology analysts in their realm , not that I’m biased or anything … And if you’re wondering at my title to this post, I refer you …
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