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- The Mystery of Sudden AccelerationPublished: March 12, 2010Source: Marginal RevolutionHere is Ted Frank on the Toyota sudden acceleration problem. The Los Angeles Times recently did a story detailing all of the NHTSA reports of Toyota “sudden acceleration” fatalities, and, though the Ti...
- Ernst and Young Is in Trouble as WellPublished: March 12, 2010From the FT, quoting the Lehman report: ‘Repo 105’ accounting in focus: The Examiner concludes that there are colorable claims that Ernst Young did not meet professional standards either in investigati...
- My Testimony Re: Citizens United & Corporate GovernancePublished: March 12, 2010Source: TRUTH ON THE MARKETEarlier this year the Supreme Court affirmed the free speech rights of corporations by way of the Citizens United case. President Obama then chided the Court in a rare face-to-face attack during his state of...
- US school prom axed as lesbian student asks to bring girlfriendPublished: March 11, 2010A student at a high school in Mississippi says the school board cancelled her school's prom rather than let her attend it with her lesbian girlfriend
- Elderfield Speech on Financial RegulationPublished: March 11, 2010Source: The Irish EconomyThe Central Bank’s new Head of Financial Regulation, Matthew Elderfield, delivered his first public speech today at the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants (text here.). The speech is an impressive stat...
- Cork – beach riding under threatPublished: March 11, 2010Source: stabletostable.comNew bye-law proposals from Cork County Council will have major repercussions for horse riders who use the county’s beaches . There is an online facility at www.westcorktoday.com where members of the publi...
- The Coming Greek Debt BubblePublished: March 11, 2010Source: The Baseline ScenarioBy Peter Boone and Simon Johnson Bubbles are back as a topic of serious discussion, as they were before the financial crisis. The questions are: (1) can you spot bubbles, (2) can policymakers do anything to d...
- Markets in everything, eight unconventional ways to be buriedPublished: March 11, 2010Source: Marginal RevolutionMy favorite is number seven: Pencils made from the carbon of human cremains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash - a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind. Each pencil is foil stampe...
- PhotoPublished: March 8, 2010Source: Yimmys Yayo™
- The Dangers of Too Much DataPublished: March 8, 2010Source: FreakonomicsWondering whether aspirin will protect your heart or cause internal bleeding? Or whether you should kick your coffee habit or embrace it? It's often hard to make sense of the conflicting advice that comes out o...
- Macro Wars...Published: March 9, 2010Karl Smith: Macro Wars: Solow vs. Lucas: Re: Adam: I don’t think that Solow, in particular, has ever tried to come to grips with any of these issues except by making jokes ~Bob Lucas...
- Grenada is expensivePublished: March 9, 2010Source: Marginal RevolutionA lot of islands are expensive but here it is pronounced. Western shopping mall goods are not bought by many people in the core population, so the market consists mainly of low-elasticity demanders, namel...
- How Google Does Business...Published: March 8, 2010Source: Geary Behavioural Economics Blog1. "What could be more baffling than a capitalist corporation that gives away its best services, doesn't set the prices for the ads that support it, and turns away customers because their ads don't measure up t...
- Use of GM food biotechnology continues to grow across globe; Well-fed Europeans remain resistantPublished: March 7, 2010Last Tuesday, the European Commission approved the cultivation of genetically-modified (GM) potatoes but well-fed environmentalists and some European ministers slammed the move. Despite more than a decade of us...
- Swiss reject animal lawyer planPublished: March 7, 2010The Swiss vote by a large majority against a proposal to give animals the constitutional right to be represented in court.
- National Geographic's Top 10 Photos of 2009Published: March 6, 2010Source: The Online PhotographerTomorrow, in many markets in the United States—and later in the week in other markets—Public Broadcasting will air National Geographic Magazines Top 10 Photos of the Year. You can see JPEGs of the ten pictu...
- The Real Roots of the CrisisPublished: February 24, 2010Source: Umair HaqueRemember Superman's slogan? Let me remind you. "Truth, Justice, and The American Way." Corny, sure. But doesn't it get you a little bit? It sounds funnily evocative right now: a reminder of something deeper, so...
- Test your moral intuitions, Kunming editionPublished: March 4, 2010Source: Marginal RevolutionThis was a truly strange article, not only for its content but also for its odd shifts in tone. It seems that in China there is a theme park of dwarfs who perform for tourists; this reader felt he had stepp...
- Israeli military 'unfriends' soldier after Facebook leakPublished: March 4, 2010The Israeli military cancels a raid on a Palestinian village after one of its soldiers posted details of the operation on Facebook.
- Why Europe should reject a new Glass-Steagall ActPublished: March 4, 2010Source: VoxEU.org: Recent ArticlesHans-Werner Sinn, 4 March 2010A return of the Glass-Steagall Act has been suggested by US policymakers and commentators as a way to reduce risk in financial markets. This column argues that the legacy of separa...
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