Anand, Topalov and me
Troppodillians will want to know - OK, some will want to know that the chess world championship is currently underway. Topalov, swashbuckling, highly strung, nasty piece...
Productivity Commission backs world’s most draconian cigarette packaging regulation.
Here's my article for yesterday's Crikey. The media inform us that the Rudd Government is adopting the world's most draconian cigarette packaging regulation and requiring...
A General Theory of History – A bleg
Doctor Labyrinth, like most people who read a great deal and who have too much time on their hands, had become convinced that our civilization...
Information: low hanging reform fruit
My article for yesterday's Crikey! It's been clear for a long while that we've picked a lot of the low hanging fruit available in traditional...
A bit of information gets out there – life gets a little bit better (and skinnier)
From the NBER Digest: Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants, Bryan Bollinger, Phillip Leslie, and Alan Sorensen "Mandatory calorie posting influenced consumer behavior at Starbucks in New York...
Bob Geldof to talk to mortgage broking convention
And why not? I wonder what his golf handicap is.
Who are the latte sippers? Attempts at authenticity
Political commentary and pseudo demography speaks of a class called the latte sippers. This is a class of noisy, isolated, out of touch and elitist...