I guess this gets back to the question of whether this is a temporary crisis like the 70s, or the beginning of the end of abundant oil. And, I...
Actually I read the Financial Times and the Economist. I wonder where that puts me in the culture wars ideological spectrum. Can I borrow your...
Reducto ad absurdum, all taxes should be replaced by markets for social services applied to the transactions that invoke the externality. For...
I tried to roll over my QM/QG position today. I was able to close the August contracts but I got an error message opening the September contract....
We were talking about taxation. Do you consider consumption taxes to be price fixing? I don't. FWIW I agree that government price fixing (which...
1% of value? Shit, I'm renting at 0.28% of value. I agree, rents are completely out of whack. Martin
<i>hmmm.... they say oil is an inelastic good.....</i> Very inelastic in the short run, but quite elastic in the long run. People don't stop...
Sorry EQ... I thought you meant the DVI 1.0 specs. I wasn't paying enough attention. It's astonishing to see a new card today which can't do at...
Kubilai - sorry, I didn't notice your response to my post. Here's my thoughts. Yes. I couldn't agree more. I agree. However, the way you...
Modern video cards support much higher resolutions, at least 1600x1200, over a single DVI link. It isn't part of the standard, but as long as the...
Look, I'd be the first to agree that oil futures have gotten a bit ahead of themselves. But if you want to argue that $20 of the price of oil is...
Arbitrageurs replicate shares of the ETF throughout the trading day and then trade creation units at the close in order to zero out their...
Well, you were wrong before and you're wrong now. AMEX datafeed contains NAV estimates (Intraday Indicative Values) that are updated every 15...
I second the recommendation of the Ikea Jerker desk. It's a clone of the AnthroBench (www.anthro.com), which is undeniably better, but costs 5...
The airline industry as a whole has failed to make a cumulative profit over its entire history. Martin
Another worrying fact about China. Most of Chinese youth grew up in one child families. I don't mean to insult anyone but an entire generation of...
Efficient markets mean different things to different people. There are at least three different forms of the efficient market hypothesis. Also,...
That's not actually true. The free market does a lot of things very well, but attaching the correct economic value a shared and limited resource...
Wrong! OPEC increased production by 2.5mbpd in December '97 just as Asian demand was getting clobbered. It was a mistake they haven't quickly...
All you people who think GOOG is the next MSFT... even if you're right, it's not going to make you rich. MSFT has 3 times the market cap of GOOG....
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