R-Squared Energy Blog: A Solar Thought Experiment

How many solar panels to produce all US electricity needs?
About 50 square miles.

R-Squared Energy Blog: A Solar Thought Experiment

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Sam Graham-Felsen's Blog: Senator Obama Addresses Wesleyan University Graduates

It’s because you have an obligation to yourself. Because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation. Because thinking only about yourself, fulfilling your immediate wants and needs, betrays a poverty of ambition. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential and discover the role you’ll play in writing the next great chapter in America’s story




Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Sam Graham-Felsen's Blog: Senator Obama Addresses Wesleyan University Graduates

"Economics: Which Way for Obama?" (Behavioral Economics Edition)

naked capitalism: "Economics: Which Way for Obama?" (Behavioral Economics Edition)

Classics

Greg Mankiw's Blog: Oh, yeah, that should work

Business Advice

WallStreetJackass: Lauder Address at Wharton.

Peak Oil

The Big Picture | Crude Oil = $132; Peak Oil ?

Marginal Revolution: My favorite things Japan, cinema edition

Marginal Revolution: My favorite things Japan, cinema edition

So, you want things to be fair?

Greg Mankiw's Blog: So, you want things to be fair?

Did Larry Summers Concede to the "Forces of Darkness"?

Larry Summers defends his view that globalization can depress the wages of US workers and that the government should aid those workers.


Economist's View: Did Larry Summers Concede to the "Forces of Darkness"?

Allocating the benefits from trade

There are clear benefits to trade. The argument is all about how to allocate those benefits.

Economist's View: "The Canary in the Mine?"

Justification of Fund of Fund fees

allaboutalpha.com: AllAboutAlpha.com

New York Fed Chief Tim Geithner - Executive Articles - Portfolio.com

New York Fed Chief Tim Geithner - Executive Articles - Portfolio.com

On Inequality.

Sources of inequality.

Economist's View: "Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey"

Churchill on Democracy, Should we reconsider

Remind me again why democracy is better than any other form of government?

Obsidian Wings: They Read The Onion And Thought It Was A How-To Manual

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Rejecting the Policy that Won the Cold War

We need another "X".

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Rejecting the Policy that Won the Cold War

The U. S. Electric Grid: Will It Be Our Undoing?

Everyone knows that we have a problem with new sources of energy. They are less aware about problems of storage and distribution.

The Oil Drum | The U. S. Electric Grid: Will It Be Our Undoing?

Calculated Risk: BofA to Walk Away from Countrywide?

Calculated Risk: BofA to Walk Away from Countrywide?

Larry Summer's is Rethinking Globalisation"

By rethinking I mean thinking about how to deal with the sections of America that are the short term losers. Those areas need more investment in infrastructure, education and job retraining. But at the same time the people there need to understand that they are part of regional, national and global competition.

Economist's View: "A Strategy to Promote Healthy Globalisation"

What reforms are Needed?

Are we in the "eye of the storm" of the credit crisis?
What level of reforms of the system are needed: less leverage and more transparency.

naked capitalism: Why Such Timid Financial Reform Proposals? (Alan Blinder Edition)

McCain. More Dangerous than Bush

The Militarist | The American Prospect