Monday, October 7, 2013

Solar: a continuing update

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Brad Delong points us towards a great chart of the cost of solar energy .  The key quote: The price of solar photovoltaic cells has dropp...

The obvious and the obviously obvious

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This quote (cited by Andrew Gelman via a badly chosen URL), "The necessary conceit of the essayist must be that in writing down what i...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

Weekend blogging -- TV spies and war games

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I came across a Youtube channel dedicated to the late Sixties/early Seventies show Callan. In case you're not familiar with it, the show...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Other people get their allusions from classical literature; I use old Superbowl ads.

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Like a lot of people, I've always looked at Grover Norquist as both dangerous and untrustwworthy. Certainly the last peerson I'd exp...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Electronic currency

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It seems like Bitcoin is experiencing a bit of a set-back .  It is probably not that surprising that such a strong challenge to fiat currenc...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Amazing sentence of the day

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Wow, just wow : They analyzed the results of 305 randomized controlled trials involving 339,274 individuals and found no statistically de...

Orthogonality in political debates

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I think that I feel the most like an expat at times like this, when the American political elite are talking about the size of government . ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

A problem of measurement

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Trying to actually measure outcomes is a very tricky business when you are looking at things like educational outcomes.  It's harder whe...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

Charter schools

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Okay, this piece in Forbes about the money to be made in charter schools is really pointing out the potential hazards of these sorts of mov...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Weekend blogging -- the political cartoons of Dr. Seuss

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As TPM pointed out , Ted Cruz made an odd choice when he invoked Theodor Geisel, a lifelong liberal who served as a political cartoonist for...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Hunger, homelessness and the George Foreman Grill

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In the recent discussion of food stamps (see here , here , and here ), one of the recurring points was that the price of food available in ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Reactions to DeLong's piece on Global Warming

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I am sure that this section will be roundly ignored, but it was the most interesting to me :  Even half a generation ago, economists inter...

Netflix, the Emmys and the power of a happy narrative -- inevitable Motley Fool edition

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This is getting sad. As mentioned in a previous post , those journalists who cover either media or business or both have completely invest...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Why insurance is essential

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This post gets to the heart of the reason why I consider the "insurance" piece of health insurance to be the less important part ....
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Getting a handle on the paradox of hunger in a country of abundant cheap food

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Andrew Gelman has a good SNAP discussion going over at his blog. He also raises an interesting point about the implied statistical content ...