http://econoclectic.powerblogs.com/ Eclectic views on economics, policy, sports, etc. en-us 2008-07-25T23:07+00:00 http://econoclectic.powerblogs.com/posts/1214079648.shtml This is not a joke (unlike the e-mail that claims to be a picture of water on Mars).... EclectEcon 2008-07-04T05:07+00:00 http://econoclectic.powerblogs.com/posts/1195181751.shtml A consistent theme running through the famous article, "The Problem of Social Cost" by Ronald Coase is that it is not always efficient to charge a tax on some activity... EclectEcon 2007-11-19T06:11+00:00 http://econoclectic.powerblogs.com/posts/1192143077.shtml Yesterday, Jack sent me this from the Financial Post. It is a scathing attack on "An Inconvenient Truth" and the British School System's attempts to indoctrinate children using Al Gore's... EclectEcon 2007-10-12T05:10+00:00 http://econoclectic.powerblogs.com/posts/1186962394.shtml That's the phrase used by Mark Steyn in yesterday's column, in which he points out that NASA's reported data about temperatures in the US have been revised downward for the... EclectEcon 2007-08-13T05:08+00:00 http://econoclectic.powerblogs.com/posts/1170507553.shtml Scoop, an anonymous politico, sent me the following suggestion:... EclectEcon 2007-02-06T17:02+00:00 http://econoclectic.powerblogs.com/posts/1169492778.shtml Jack sent me this article, which roughly suggests maybe 5 billion years until the earth is swallowed up by the sun. Maybe.... EclectEcon 2007-01-27T17:01+00:00 http://econoclectic.powerblogs.com/posts/1169502863.shtml I have had this fantasy all winter that I would not have to snowblow at all this winter. It has been quite warm here, and we missed the horrendous snow storm... EclectEcon 2007-01-25T17:01+00:00 http://econoclectic.powerblogs.com/posts/1133466762.shtml In "The Winds of Crisis" [Nat'l Post, Nov. 29, FP Comment, p64 ($), h/t to Jack], Terence Corcoran writes about the meeting taking place in Montreal about global warming:... John Palmer 2005-12-01T19:12+00:00