Guns don't kill people...what does?
The Economist just released a little mini-report on gun ownership rates in various countries. So I decided to put those numbers together wi...
A glimpse into the mind of Mr. Noah
Excerpted from a recent email exchange, some rants of mine about where the liberal movement needs to go: In the last few years I've hear...
Tip from taxi driver Noah - Sell wheat!
Steven Pearstein at the Washington Post takes a point of view that surprisingly few econ bloggers or reporters have taken - that the huge ru...
Vote for us, only $1.9 trillion in deficit spending!
Matt Yglesias and Brendan Nyhan are angry at the NYT for drawing a false equivalence between John McCain's plans to increase the debt...
The bling-poverty connection - a quick follow-up
I was thinking about my last post, and about the "bling-poverty connection." Like I said before, it's usually very hard for ec...
Bling = poverty
Very interesting blog post in the Economist today, about how minorities in America spend way too much on conspicuous consumption: Erik Hurs...
Cold logic about global warming
More and more voices are joining the chorus demanding action against global warming. Curiously, these voices are much louder in the rich wo...
That's what they're there for
Mike Boyer, writing in FP Passport, resents Coca-Cola's communist-chic appeal to Chinese customers. He bitterly recalls the sense of We...
General equilibrium, anyone?
Paul Krugman doesn't think commodity prices are coming down . They did after the big spike in the '70s, but this time, he says, the ...
Blogging hiatus until the end of finals
And if I complete all these final projects, this will be my last season of finals...ever! Look for more posts after the 23rd...
Not quite back to the caves
America and the rise of Asia
Here's a very interesting (and long) survey article in the New Yorker surveying the flurry of recent books about the rise of Asia. Far...
Handy English / Bad English pocket dictionary
Here's an interesting story about how the new Chinese labor law is affecting factories: The law -- designed to combat forced labor, wit...
Obama's "bitter" gaffe
Obama's gaffe about "bitter" Pennsylvania residents turning to "God or guns": Does it actually indicate anything ba...
Unpleasant choices for China
Time to combine my two recent blogging obsessions into a single subject - China and the resource crash! NPR has a story that echoes a growi...
Thorium sure is spiffy!
Reading more and more about peak oil and EROEI (during my study breaks), I've become more and more pessimistic about our civilization...
What do we do about China?
In response to my latest anti-China screed , commenter Jollygreen asks: How do we go about getting China to do anything? It seems like they...
Triumph of the Wheat
The situation in Afghanistan has been deteriorating for a long time now, partly because the Taliban are still supported by elements within P...
Freedom costs a buck-oh-five, oh yeah...
Via Yglesias , here's a Weekly Standard article bashing China : [P]rosperity, while a great public good, is a meager substitute for the...
I'm right I'm right I'm right I'm right I'm right
Via Ezra Klein , a blog post in the Economist that has the exact same explanation as I do for why Krugman gets on Obama's case so much...
Some light economics
I really really really don't like the Chinese government.
How technological progress works
Matt Yglesias takes a look at some predictions from 1968 about what life would be like in 2008, and finds them wanting . Tyler Cowen notes ...
Oh no
Work
So, I have 18 days left in my semester, and in that time I have - by my quick-and-dirty estimate - 115 hours of work to do. That's only ...
