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Lomborg: "The green pseudo-revolution"

Bjorn Lomborg the Danish statistican with a habit of upsetting environmentalists has written a Guardian opinion piece.This article links to a number of previous posts I have made o..

http://globalisation-and-the-environment.blogspot.com/

Not All News Is Bad

Already, you can see that the political constellation is lining up in a way that is more friendly to the cause of liberty. The Democrats are up to their old tricks, which are trans..

http://blog.mises.org/blog/

A Bottom-Up Bailout Rather Than Trickle-Down

Hank Paulson has just about burned through $300 billion, and it's not clear what the public has got out of it. Perhaps things would be worse without the bailout but they're certain..

http://robertreich.blogspot.com/

Misguided Bets On The Yield Curve

Bloomberg is reporting U.S. Long-Term Treasuries Advance as Consumer Prices Plummet.Treasuries maturing in 10 years or more, the most sensitive to inflation expectations, rose afte..

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/

Video on gas price oddities before the hurricane and after: Is it a real concern or price gouging?

Very strange examples of price volatility due to Hurricane IKE:1. All three grades the same price.2. One station is 60 cents lower than the gas station across the street, trying to..

http://qualitytw.blogspot.com/

America’s Most Effective Weapon Against the Rich

Inheritance is a civil right and not a natural right. Way back in 1898, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to take property by devise or descent is the creature of the law and ..

http://www.amateureconomists.com/blogs/

What do we know about infrastructure spending?

Recently, there’s been a great deal of discussion about developing, legislating, and implementing a second fiscal stimulus. One of the prominent components mentioned in the recen..

http://macroblog.typepad.com/macroblog/

The Progress of the Financial Crisis in One Picture: Mortgages, Flight to Safety, Credit Lock

Markus Brunnermeier provides an excellent summary graph of the financial crisis, told in "spreads".Figure 3 from Brunnermeier (2008): Interest Rate Spreads. The top panel shows..

http://www.econbrowser.com/

Fear of appreciation: Asian exchange rate asymmetry

Victor Pontines, Ramkishen S. Rajan, 19 November 2008Why are emerging Asian economies accumulating massive foreign exchange reserve stocks? Much research has focused on precautiona..

http://www.voxeu.org/

Why I Don't Approve of My Congressman:

Polls routinely show that most Americans give very low approval ratings to Congress as a whole, but give much higher ratings to their own representatives. Count me among the.....

http://volokh.com/

The Future of Data Analysis

Introduction A few days ago I was trying to explain the benefits of the Bayesian approach to a physicist who didn't care about the religion of truth and inference but primarily abo..

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/mlm/

Two tensions in modern American sport

1) Athletics vs. academics on campusThe allocation of time spent by student-athletes between sport and study is a long running source of tension on America's campuses. This rathe..

http://www.thesportseconomist.com/

The Right To Win

Among the many new "rights" being conjured out of thin air, a new one seems to be a "right" to win. Americans have long had the right to put their candidates and their ideas to a ..

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/archive.shtml

First Grade Assignment

Two years ago when Eldest was in first grade here in southern Minnesota, here was one of his homework assignments. I guess I should be happy one of the responses wasn't "sharing h..

http://www.marketpowerblog.com/

Fear of appreciation: Asian exchange rate asymmetry

Victor Pontines, Ramkishen S. Rajan, 19 November 2008Why are emerging Asian economies accumulating massive foreign exchange reserve stocks? Much research has focused on precautiona..

http://www.voxeu.eu/

When did the UK’s national debt hit record levels?

Michael Blastland explains:1946,1947,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,19..

http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/

Sergeant, Tocqueville & democracy

John Sergeant’s performance on Strictly Come Dancing has reminded me of Alexis de Tocqueville. Despite having the elegance of a spastic in a magnet factory (c. Gene Hunt), viewer..

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/

International finance and economic growth

The Commission on Growth and Development has put out a nice survey by Maury Obstfeld of the impact of international finance on growth in developing countries. Here is the first par..

http://rodrik.typepad.com/
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