Andrew Norton points to this Herald Sun article about a man who was sued by his mistress of 20 years and she won a payout of $100,000 when their relationship ended. Andrew doesn’t like it.
This encourages adultery and gold-diggers, at significant emotional and financial risk to the first [...]
Something in the China-America relationship has to give
THESE stories are increasingly troubling:China denounced new U.S. anti-dumping duties on steel pipes as protectionist on Friday and opened an investigation into imports of U.S.-made automobiles, about a week before President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive for a visit. Beijing [...]
Here's a fascinating talk by Peter Klein on the relationship between Man, Economy, State, and teh interwebs, given in 1998 to Mises Institute supporters. It's especially interesting in light of some of the incredible changes in technology and policy we've seen in the last decade or so.
' [...]When your city spreads out, so does your paunch – at least according to new work from the NBER stable. Their IV strategy seems credible, suggesting that the relationship is probably causal.
Effects of Urban Sprawl on Obesity (unstable ungated, stable gated)
Zhenxiang Zhao and Robert Kaestner
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When your city spreads out, so does your paunch – at least according to new work from the NBER stable. Their IV strategy seems credible, suggesting that the relationship is probably causal.
Effects of Urban Sprawl on Obesity (unstable ungated, stable gated)
Zhenxiang Zhao and Robert Kaestner
[...]
. . . but this is getting ridiculous. Just about one week's worth of miscellaneous browsing and I hit upon five different discussions:
"Why Ayn Rand is Hot Again: The unconservative Ayn Rand and her relationship to the American right".
It's a risky thing to do
PAUL KRUGMAN'S latest column, on China's management of the renminbi-dollar relationship, is kind of inflammatory. He writes:Although there has been a lot of doomsaying about the falling dollar, that decline is actually both natural and desirable. America needs a weaker dollar to help [...]
As Australia records the biggest annual percentage decline in Australian dollar export prices since comparable data began in 1974, Stephen Green predicts ‘enormous’ Chinese demand for Australian iron ore next year.
I discuss the relationship between Australian export prices and volumes in this article.
[...]Measuring efficiency is a difficult business. As AHRQ, “In most cases, individuals and firms will define efficiency as a relationship between what it costs them and what service or outcome they receive, rather than as a trait inherent in the provider.”
Further, efficiency can be measured as either production efficiency [...]
Bernanke talks nothing about monetary policy and keeps his speech focused on Asia and our trade relationship with them. His bottom line, the US needs to save more, Asia needs to consume more and this would rebalance trade imbalances. Of course with US interest rates at zero, savings in the [...]
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My short piece on Williamsonian transaction cost economics and its relationship to the Austrian approach is up on Mises.org.
Posted in - Klein -, Austrian Economics, New Institutional Economics, Theory of the Firm [...] Joe Brancatelli finds a wonderful inverse relationship when it comes to ancillary airline fees:
Here's an indisputable fact: During the second quarter of the year, the nation's largest airlines collected $669.5 million worth of baggage fees from the nation's hapless passengers. That's an attention-grabbing 275 percent increase from the second [...]
(This is my first post at Core economics, cross-posted with ClubTroppo)
There has been much talk in the last 12 months about the relationship between macro-economic theory and explanations of the current recession. Krugman essentially dismissed most current macro theory as being delusional about the workings of major recessions. His [...]
From Grasscutting, fertilizer, and healthcare:
My simple relationship with Jeff is, I believe, the healthcare model of the future. You manage your own cholesterol issues, your own basic thyroid issues, supplement and monitor your vitamin D levels, use diet to suit your needs, order blood tests when necessary, even obtain [...]
Das: “self-regulation bears the same relationship to regulation that self importance does to importance” — Kedrosky
“You can quickly see why deer would do well to exit West Virginia and move, say, to Hawaii” — Kedrosky
Allen Stanford, prison brawler — Business Insider
That Zoellick speech in full — [...]
The text of my opinion piece in today’s AFR on the MAp buyout of Macquarie’s management rights in MAp is below.
Is the MAp board paying too much to end its relationship with Macquarie Bank? The independent board of Macquarie Airports (MAp) is recommending to its security holders that MAp pay [...]
A Baltimore startup with less than 5 employees, WhoGlue, is suing Facebook for patent infringement, based on a patent it previously--unsuccessfully--tried to unload at a patent auction. The patent, no. 7,246,164, is for a "Distributed personal relationship information management system and method". In essence, they claim that Facebook [...]
