Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Climate Change
Freaked Out Over SuperFreakonomics, by Bret Stephens
“Global warming might be solved with a helium balloon and a few miles of garden hose …Part of the genius of Marxism, and a reason for its enduring appeal, is that it fed man’s [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Catastrophes
One year after Hurricane Ike, from the Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” blogsite
Boston Globe: “One year after Hurricane Ike tore across the gulf coast of Texas, residents paused on Sunday to observe the anniversary of the costliest natural disaster in Texas history. [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic):
Economics and the Financial Crisis
Dissecting the so-called Multiplier I: Taking The White House at its Word, by Casey Mulligan
University of Chicago economics professor Casey Mulligan calculates that the cost per job year for the jobs that the Obama administration claims [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Economics
Positive, Normative, and … ?, by Donald Marron The Least Surprising Correlation of All Time, by Greg Mankiw
Global Warming
Technology Can Fight Global Warming, by Bjorn Lomborg Wall Street Journal: “Marine cloud whitening, and other ideas.”
Health Care Reform
A Strategy to Save Obamacare, But at [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Catastrophes
Nations Focus On Disaster Planning WSJ: “Two major earthquakes in Asia refocused attention on incomplete efforts to improve emergency planning after a tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in 2004.”
Economics
Wonky Talk about Carbon Taxes, by Greg Mankiw My favorite econblogger provides a succinct explanation [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Catastrophes
Typhoon Morakot, from The Big Picture
Health Care
A new paper on life expectancy, by Tyler Cowen Fishy statements about health care reform, by Keith Hennessey Prevention, Health Costs, and Value, by Donald Marron
Finance
University of Chicago finance professor Eugene Fama on Market Efficiency in a Volatile [...]
Today marks 64 years since the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the United States (the U.S. dropped a second atom bomb on Nagasaki, Japan just three days later). The Boston Globe has a remarkable photoessay about Hiroshima available on its “The Big Picture” website.
For what it’s worth, I am one of four people (along with Jeff Holland, Liongate Capital Management founder, John W. Howton Rockbrook Capital founder, and John C. Bogle, founder and former CEO of the Vanguard) interviewed in “Finance to the Rescue”, an article that appears in the Fall 2005 issue of Baylor Business Review. My [...]
The White House posted the transcript of President Bush’s speech today to the United Nations. Of particular significance is the President’s announcement concerning the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza (see http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050914.html for the complete transcript): “As we strengthen our commitments to fighting malaria and AIDS, we must also remain on the offensive against new [...]
Here is a collection of readings that I have been wading through (pardon the pun) in order to try to gain some perspectives on the tragedy that we see unfolding in the Gulf Coast generally and in New Orleans in particular: 1. Katrina, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and Terrorism, by Richard Posner, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago. 2. [...]
