Betting on Peak Oil
…for inflation to be in 2005 dollars). The bet was designed in the spirit of the famous bet between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich, which the economist Simon won when…
…for inflation to be in 2005 dollars). The bet was designed in the spirit of the famous bet between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich, which the economist Simon won when…
…I predict that the world will watch French cities light up in youth unrest in 2009, 2010 at the latest … 2011 for sure. I have been traveling to the…
…with a very low exemption in 2011). President-elect Obama will quickly push to abolish the repeal and instead freeze the exemption at $7 million for a couple, with a marginal…
…offset the recession. A significant part of the spending will not begin until 2010 and 2011 when most economists believe we will be into the next recovery. With unemployment rates…
In the spirit of its Big Mac Index, The Economist rolled out its Global Debt Clock, which features a running global-public-debt tally. It also provides specific data for different countries,…
…the business of football and we encourage them to step up and take responsibility with this in mind. Q. In the following Economist article, the author shows a graph of…
…have passed along all $100 million to his or her heirs. But, with a scheduled resumption of the tax in 2011, such heirs would have surrendered more than $40 million…
…new policy “provides an incentive for individuals to agree to help each other.” The policy will be widely publicized and will take effect in January 2011. (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…be published in the July issue of the journal American Antiquity. The archaeology team also is finishing a book manuscript for University of Oklahoma Press to be released in 2011….
…too loaded with talent.? If LeBron won a championship in 2011 as a Laker, it wouldn’t be clear that he was the but-for cause.? I predict that he goes to…
…2011, and 70% of the workforces of the government,” says Zhang Yujing of the Beijing Federation of Trade Unions. “We want all state-owned enterprise workers to have restarted this routine…
…Martian-looking innovations. The players-who were, in an attention-getting wrinkle, mostly top junior stars eligible for the 2011 draft-road-tested everything from two-on-two overtime to shallower nets to having the second referee…
…efforts failed, but considerable evidence suggests that whatever success they’ve achieved has been conspicuously countered by a national waistband seemingly guided by the imperatives of Manifest Destiny. 68 percent of…
The Economist reports that the city of Shanghai has been auctioning car license plates. The average auction price has recently been $6,900, truly remarkable considering average family income in China,…
…a JaMarcus Russell). Am I missing a representative for future players? –Schantz A. I sound like an economist when I say this, but why would you blame the players for…
…in 2011. Currently, participants are fined $25 if they fail to follow the schedule in any given week, but Gym-Pact’s founders are still refining their model. “Zhang and [Geoff] Oberhofer…
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…2011 (my ultrasound was in 2005). Later in the article, the surgical cost is given: “Hospitals charge $5,000 to $6,000 for a needle biopsy, and double that for an open?[surgical]…
A local resident holds pictures he found in the tsunami-damaged city of Rikuzentakata, in Iwate prefecture on March 22, 2011. (Photo: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images) From a loss-of-life standpoint, the Japanese…
Photo: Hemera Red Sox Nation came into the 2011 season confident they had a winner. Adding the bats of Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez made Boston the off-season champs in…
…the longest hours, who shops the most, to who is most trusting of others. The annual report, titled “Society at a Glance 2011 – OECD Social Indicators,” is chock-full with…
…a fortune. Maybe. Someone actually yelled “Stop the Presses” in 2011. The real reason machines and the internet won’t replace secretaries. Space shuttle launch delay has a big price tag….
Photo: iStockphoto There’s a growing sentiment among economists that GDP is a poor measure of a country’s well-being. (See our recent podcast on the topic; also, the research of Joseph…
…us and wonder how in 2011 we can still be unsure of such basic sexual facts when we’ve built particle accelerators the size of a small city and landed a…
…2011, p. 5 of the optics supplement). The article touted laser-based “green technologies,” including their use in reducing carbon-dioxide emissions: Volvo’s Johnny Larson says it is possible to shave a…
…secretive behaviors have already become harder to hide. A person in the year 2011 who visits a strip club, cheats on his spouse, evades taxes, or murders someone can surely…
…About 7,000 people who could benefit from an organ transplant will die in 2011. Most of those who will die are patients on the transplant wait list. The patients who…
Photo: Saad.Akhtar A recent study by a team of economists at Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies argues that the current economic recovery is the worst since World War…
…for war-related purposes would decline over a five-year period to an average of 180,000 in 2011, 130,000 in 2012,100,000 in 2013, 65,000 in 2014, and 45,000 in 2015 and there-after….
…2011 in Los Angeles, California. The bridge is being demolished as part of a $1 billion project to add carpool lanes and make other improvements along the 405 freeway from…