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What drives the price of gasoline (it is not just the currency)"

"US GDP
Rest-of-world GDP
Energy intensity of economic activity
Oil production capacity
Cost of production of marginal producer
Nominal interest rates
Inflation rates
Expected price of oil (itself a function of trends in the above factors)
Speculative activities of non-fundamentalist traders
Numeraire issues"

Honest Republicans

"Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) suggested Friday that he wouldn't have supported the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation"


Hoisted from Comments: Is Ron Paul Against the Emancipation Proclamation? - Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality with Both Hands:

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Toyota's Latest Struggles Bare Export Ills - WSJ.com

Toyota contemplating moving more production outside of Japan. Earthquake as a catalyst.

Toyota's Latest Struggles Bare Export Ills - WSJ.com

Saturday, May 07, 2011

- Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

How times change


"That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason."



The Osama bin Laden exception - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com:

Friday, May 06, 2011

The Slippery Slope of Justifying Torture

"As I tried to allude to in my post this morning, torture will always appear to “work” regardless of whether it in fact “works.” �We will attribute any success to it, and any failure to not enough of it. �And thus we will soon find that we are justifying it in all manner of situations."

The Slippery Slope of Justifying Torture — The League of Ordinary Gentlemen:


Tuesday, May 03, 2011