Navarro is an Anderson Valley/Mendocino winemaker, lovely, carefully made wines. Their Gewurztraminer is to die for. This Pinot Noir has a sprightly little zip on the tongue and a smokiness that is reminiscent of a young Burgundy, perhaps a Morgon. Apples in the foretaste, toasty/dusty in the middle, berries and slight carbonation in the aftertaste, …
The Wall Street Journal is chock full of goodies this morning. I recommend special attention to Thomas Sowell’s commentary on economic literacy (subscription required). His focus is on the value that academic economists provide when they explain economic relationships to the public: Some years ago, the distinguished international-trade economist Jagdish Bhagwati was visiting Cornell University, …
In a comment to a post on clean coal technologies, Robert Prather has a concise statement of what I think makes the most sense for dealing with emissions from old power plants: When the clean air act was put into place it was assumed that a lot of older plants would shut down so they …
I came home Sunday to find that my husband had bought and opened a bottle of Sterling Vintner’s Collection Central Coast Cabernet Sauvignon 2001. So it had started to oxidize when we finished the bottle Sunday night with pork medallions in a black cherry cognac sauce, haricots verts, and crusty bread. I believe this is …
Friday at the Mercatus Chief of Staff Retreat, Hernando DeSoto spoke on the work that they are doing in Egypt. Hernando DeSoto founded the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Peru, successfully fighting the Maoist Shining Path guerillas in Peru. DeSoto laid out the economic and philosophical argument for why law, liberty and democracy are …
One of the rituals in which I engage every four years is in mid-January or so, when I can no longer abide the media hoopla over primaries and the election. Almost like clockwork, a day will come in January when I am listening to NPR and I reach a breaking point. I say ?that?s it?, …
It’s not very often that two of my favorite things in the world converge quite so unexpectedly as in this column from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about seeing Girl With A Pearl Earring, a “chick flick” on Valentine’s Day. Take this, for example: I’ve seen Firth brood in “Pride and Prejudice,” in “Bridget Jones’ Diary” and …
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So I’m at a conference here in Philadelphia with Tyler Cowen, and I told him after dinner that I was going up to my room to bed, no computer, just a phone call home. But then I got sucked in …
Here’s an article on the complex interaction of factors that have led to a recent rise in gasoline prices in California. It’s a lot of the usual — planned and unplanned maintenance, the seasonal fuel switchover, etc.
I agree with Alex at Marginal Revolution that Stock and Watson is an extremely good econometrics textbook. I don’t teach econometrics, but I do supervise senior theses that frequently require my consulting with students about their analyses, and Stock and Watson is very good. This is not surprising; I learned time-series econometrics from Mark Watson …
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