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By Yoram|2021-05-19T01:15:27-06:00August 16th, 2010|Blog|0 Comments
  • Air-Conditioners That Run When Nobody’s Home
  • Investing Made Easy — If Only. About efficient market hypothesis.
  • China Passes Japan as Second-Largest Economy
  • Free Parking Comes at a Price
  • In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming. For ENVIR 100?
  • Cleared, and Pondering the Value of 27 Years. See also In the Rearview Mirror, Oklahoma and Death Row.
  • Tax revenue down; state could see broad budget cuts later this year
  • Income tax initiative would bring in $11.6 billion over 5 years: “The income tax initiative, I-1098, would bring in more than twice as much money as proponents have said…”
  • The Point of No Return. Iran. Yikes. See also Will Israel Bomb Iran?
  • Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe
  • . Ah, the Onion.

  • “A wise passage”, from Greg Mankiw, quoting Paul Seabright: “Politicians are in charge of the modern economy in much the same way as a sailor is in charge of a small boat in a storm. The consequences of their losing control completely may be catastrophic (as civil war and hyperinflation in parts of the former Soviet empire have recently reminded us), but even while they keep afloat, their influence over the course of events is tiny in comparison with that of the storm around them. We who are their passengers may focus our hopes and fears upon them, and express profound gratitude toward them if we reach harbor safely, but that is chiefly because it seems pointless to thank the storm. (p. 25)”
  • Bill McKibben says to get mad: We’re hot as hell and we’re not going to take it any more
  • Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover: “While Portugal’s experience shows that rapid progress is achievable, it also highlights the price of such a transition. Portuguese households have long paid about twice what Americans pay for electricity, and prices have risen 15 percent in the last five years, probably partly because of the renewable energy program, the International Energy Agency says.” For ENVIR 100?
  • No Wheat Shortage, but Prices May Rise
  • The Scales Fall: Is there any hope for our overfished oceans? by Elizabeth Kolbert.
  • Why Poor Countries Are Poor by Tim Harford
  • The Sketchpad: Personal Finance on a Napkin

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