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I’m still way behind on my “real work” so blogging will be sparse this week… But here are some links: * Gold keeps chugging. * Speaking of gold prices, Robert Wenzel reproduces a great speech by GATA’s Chris Powell. Powell’s tone is great; he acknowledges that people think GATA is a bunch of black-helicopter kooks, […]

Glenn Greenwald Defends Republicans

GG is awesome. After Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, and of course conservative pundits rolled their eyes, some Democratic honchos actually accused the critics of “siding with the Taliban” etc. (Naturally enough, the Taliban and others who are being targeted with Darth death drones don’t want to give Barack a high-five on his pacifism.) […]

Hope We Can Believe In?

The first sentence of a CNBC article: “Bank failures are going to continue at a fairly strong rate but taxpayers hopefully won’t be asked to foot the bill, FDIC Chair Sheila Bair told CNBC.”

Free Advice

Sometimes on this blog I literally give you free advice. Today’s bit of wisdom: Just because you turn off the switch for your garbage disposal, doesn’t mean the blades stop turning. I didn’t draw blood or anything, but I wish I’d paid more attention to the rotational inertia lecture in my high school physics class.

Scary CBO Chart

You know those CBO projections getting bounced around, saying the debt as a share of GDP is supposed to double in the next ten years? Well, things don’t exactly turn around after that. (That’s one of the reasons that Krugman’s “Why worry?” posts on the deficit projections are misleading. He does show that it wasn’t […]

"A Cherry-Picker’s Guide to Temperature Trends"

Assuming his numbers are right, Chip Knappenberger has posted the single best piece summarizing the recent global temperature trends that I have ever read. It really is a tour de force. Chip takes on both sides, accusing a RealClimate guy and Richard Lindzen of cherry picking to bolster their claims. Here’s Chip’s overall message: What […]

Airport Lounges

I am blogging from an Admirals’ Club in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. (I’m actually writing the post late Sunday night, but I’m delaying it so as not to detract from the main Sunday post.) I have two items: First, if you travel a lot but are too much of a cheapskate to sign up for […]

Science vs. Religion: Doug Casey Edition

I clicked on this recent LRC article because–as an academic in the front lines of the climate change debate–I am particularly sensitive when fans of the free market dismiss global warming as “a hoax.” That phrase could mean many different things: (1) The best science tells us that human activities are increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) […]