I realize that serious economics commentators do their beer blogging on Fridays, but I just got ’round to reading this in Friday’s Financial Times: Cold, refreshing, helps you forget – the charms of beer are pretty recession-proof. However, what was a lifestyle choice when consumers were flush with cash rapidly becomes an overpriced foreign beer …
Greg Mankiw reprises the argument for why you might consider not going out and voting: Anyone who has ever entered a polling booth can easily see why roll off occurs. You come ready to vote for your favorite candidate in some race you’ve been following closely, but then you face a whole list of races …
I completed the eagerly awaited annual non-partisan Fleck Yard Sign Survey today while Lissa and I took a long walk through the surrounding neighborhoods in search of lox, bread products and coffee. The talley: Obama 19 McCain 4 The results are in too late for Nate Silver to incorporate in today’s model runs, but they …
Breeders unite: [W]hat’s wrong with all the straight folk? Do you have something better do with with your Thursday night than all these gay people? I doubt it – I’m sure they’ve all got fabulous dinner parties to attend or those awesome bars to go on Castro St and I’m sure their tiny dogs need …
My friend Jim Belshaw, who writes a newspaper column and has long had a love-hate relationship with blogging, sent along an Atlantic essay by Andrew Sullivan about blogging. Sullivan was one of the first bloggers I read who deserved the label, as it has now come to be known. But before blogging was the thing …
Seen on a University of New Mexico blackboard last night in an empty classroom. Kinda tough to read, so I’ll transcribe: Matthew – We thought maybe the zombies wouldn’t be able to chase us up the stairs. They’re smarter than we thought. If you find this, we’re headed for Atlanta. Send the kids our love. …
Peak IP addresses. (Hubbert predicted this would happen. You see those techno-optimistists with their wild claims that IPV6 will fix this. I think we’re condemned to a dystopian future.)
WQ: Massive amounts of money flowed into the United States because the Bush administration produced absurd deficits through an utter lack of discipline and ill-advised tax cuts in a time of war. Then we asked foreign investors and governments to buy our debt to finance our lack of discipline. Thomas Friedman has made a convincing …
You’ll see a new link in the blogroll over on the right to Winthrop Quigley’s blog. Win’s a colleague at the Journal, a business writer who is very much part of my critical brain trust. His desk is the one I wander to first when I have a question about economics, but his range of …
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I’m intrigued to find that Inkstain is the number one hit for “does andys pawn shop have guitars in fairfield”.