While I’m blathering on about The Atlantic, I recommend Christopher Hitchens’s review of a new edition of Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. I have not always liked Hitchens’s writing style, which sometimes has veered into too much pompous asperity for my taste. But I love his long-format book reviews like this one. I …
The April issue of Wired had a nice little interview with economist phenom Steven Levitt.
The curse is gone. No, not the goat or black cat curse on the Cubs (for all we know that’s still there!) — the KP house-buying curse. In the past two years we’ve tried 3 times to buy a house: 1. 1924 Chicago bungalow, beautifully renovated, 2 blocks from current location. Got a contract. Inspection: …
Now, your Carnival of the Capitalists … (note: next week’s host is Venturpreneur). Send your posts to capitalists-at-elhide-dot-com. Given that we’ve just survived April 15, and given that it felt to me like I’d been beaten about the head and shoulders, I thought we’d have a flurry of tax day posts. But only one person, …
While Lynne and I (in a previous guest post) have been quick to note that, adjusted for inflation, gasoline prices are not at record high levels, it is the case that current gasoline prices are high by historical standards. In a letter-to-the-editor published in Sunday’s Washington Post, reader Robert Speir said: The April 4 editorial …
One of the little joys of life is Anu Garg’s A Word A Day. You can have a new vocabulary word, usually in a weekly theme, arrive in your inbox daily. What a treat. Today’s word is one of my favorites: chuffed (chuft) adjective Pleased; satisfied. [From English dialect chuff (pleased, puffed, swollen with pride).] …
Carnival of the Capitalists is up over at my neighbor The Chicago Report. Although Mike, I’m your Chicago neighbor … I especially recommend Michael Williams’s post on why natural resource depletion doomsayers get it wrong (here’s a hint: when prices go up, signaling scarcity, people use less and look for other ways to do things), …
A series by Mike Giberson and Lynne Kiesling The government’s final report on the blackout has arrived on the doorstep of the nation’s electricity consumers just 7+ months after August 14. Doesn’t it strike you as a little early for a post-blackout baby boom? But there they are, 46 brand new, little recommendations: cute as …
This is a fascinating wine. For people not familiar with Cinsault (and most aren’t, because it’s usually used as a blending grape), the mouthfeel is pretty much like a silky, not too smoky, Pinot Noir. Cinsault is primarily blended with Grenache in the Tavel region of the Rhone to make a beautiful, dusty-dry rose. It’s …
Today may be a busy day, although I have some rumblings in the cerebrum that are interesting in expectation. So in the interim I heartily recommend to you these thought-provoking and informative posts: *Ben Muse riffing on Robert Shiller’s book about the productivity enhancements from the 19th-century IT revolution *Craig Newmark’s comments on price discrimination …
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