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Category: economics

Today's Misc.

That’s nice, but where’s all that hydrogen going to come from? Your cousin Howard might be right after all.

Today's Misc.

The Nobel in economics has been awarded. Mechanism design is one of those areas that I like to keep a close eye one. ML and optimization both intersect MD in really neat ways. In MD, you get to study things like why we haven’t had a third party contender for president, and in so doing [...]

Today's Soapbox

Maybe James Cayne can auction off a celebrity round in hopes of getting back some of the $1.6 billion Bear Stearns lost recently. Bear has certainly come along way since PSD (poor, smart, and determined to get rich) was the watchphrase. I watched Maxed Out recently. I realized while watching it that I just can’t [...]

It's Electric!

So I watched Who Killed the Electric Car? last night. Of course, one can only assume “plug in” hybrids will eventually fill the same niche as electric cars. Plug-in, that is, until you realize that to buy the batteries necessary to run an electric car, you have to go to Texaco shell company. Hmm. And [...]