Michael Giberson If you are already a rock star and can’t imagine doing anything else, then “money for nothing and your chicks for free” may be a reasonable characterization of your situation. On the other hand, if you’re a teenage boy picking up a guitar and hoping to attain wealth and women, you should consider …
Lynne Kiesling Imagine my delight upon perusing the Volokh Conspiracy earlier this week to find that Kenneth Anderson is a fellow early music fan! Not only that, but he also appreciates and plays the cello, my favorite non-percussion instrument. I listen to a lot of Baroque music, which of course means that I listen to …
Lynne Kiesling My thanks to Arnold Kling for the link to this October Forbes article from Robert Crandall and Clifford Winston remarking on financial regulation. They point out, correctly, that the re-examination and soul searching about macroeconomics in which we are currently engaged overlooks the great insights and policy successes that microeconomics-based deregulation have brought …
Michael Giberson Okay, so my title above is a little over dramatic, but the essence of the title remains. Previously, lacking high quality interval data on retail consumption, ERCOT has been allocating charges to retail energy suppliers based on load profiles – not exactly guesses, more like informed guesses. As distribution utilities in the competitive …
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Michael Giberson “Twitter marks an advance in freedom,” or at least so says Peder Zane in his column at the Raliegh News & Observer. I wouldn’t know, since I still don’t drink from the fountain of tweets. Only, I happened to notice at the end of an essay by Amartya Sen in the New York …
Lynne Kiesling I just participated in distributed information newsmaking history, and it’s really, really cool. A little background: I’ve been on Twitter for a few months, initially as a way to talk with a couple of friends. But then I found Team Slipstream and Lance Armstrong on Twitter, and from there just kept adding cyclists …
Lynne Kiesling James Surowiecki’s Financial Page column in the new New Yorker is an interesting muse on uncertainty. Or, more precisely, on volatility, because his focus is on fluctuations in stock prices, oil prices, other commodity prices, and currency valuations over the past couple of months, and on trying to discern the underlying causes of …
Michael Giberson Platts is reporting that the Maryland Public Service Commission is considering hiring an outside law firm to evaluate whether there is sufficient evidence of a lack of competitiveness in PJM’s power markets to bring a case before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. [Maryland PSC chairman Steven] Larsen told Platts his agency believes that …
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Lynne Kiesling How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor is an article in the May/June 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs by Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer. It’s a well-written, thorough analysis of the widespread effects of government policies favoring biofuels. Their focus is international, discussing EU initiatives on biodiesel as well as Brazil’s experience with cane-based …
Michael Giberson As Lynne noted a few days back, we share a love for soccer. In addition to Man City, she roots for her home team, the Chicago Fire. I have the honor of being a fan of my own home team, DC United. As the MLS season starts this weekend, it is a natural …
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