An Op-Ed in the New York Times describes how the profit motive can be used to save endangered tigers. This idea is well-known among economists, but badly in need of publicity.
If activists and policy-makers can learn to work with markets rather than against them, we’ll have a bright future indeed.
Here it is: my new home as of September 16th.
Very Harry Potter, no?
The latest poll shows the race tightening:
Challenger Ned Lamont … held a lead of 51 percent to 45 percent over Lieberman among likely Democratic voters. The sampling error margin was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
The race has tightened in recent days, with Lamont’s lead cut from 13 points.
The prediction markets tell a very different [...]
I noticed some subtle differences between the New York Times and ABC News in their respective reporting on today’s protests in Iraq.
One version:
Waving Lebanese flags and posters of Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, the protesters chanted, “No, no, no, Israel, no, no, no, America,’’ challenged Americans to fight them in their neighborhoods, and called on Hezbollah to [...]
Protectionists never cease to amuse me. Take this article on the European Commission’s attempt make permanent their “emergency” import duties on foreign shoes for example:
The temporary system was introduced following allegations that shoes were being “dumped” – or sold for less than it cost to make them – by manufacturers eager to gain a share of [...]
Why the dollar might be on a path towards appreciation. I know it sounds crazy, but take a look. The reasoning is not so easy to dimiss, but I’m still not sure I buy it.
