Skype spamming: Bleg
Skype spamming seems to be on the up and up. I had about six people yesterday telling me they wanted me to add them to...
And the winner is . . .
A while ago I blegged in search of a new smart phone. Well disposed to Android I thought I'd buy Samsung Gallaxy II S which...
Symbolic Climate Policies, part II: why exempt coal exports?
(cross-posted at Core-econ) Whilst it is fairly clear that the current climate change policies of Australia and other countries will do next to nothing to...
Politics of economic reform
Now that my days of writing and blogging are over, I am spending my time reading books. I have almost finished reading John Howard’s book...
‘He-said-she-said’: this is serious – Krugman
Krugman again: Think about what’s happening right now. We have a crisis in which the right is making insane demands, while the president and Democrats...
Fair trade or no trade? Economic illiteracy alive and well in our think tanks
The right wing think tanks have been having a ball denouncing dreadful things like fiscal stimuli which saved a good hundred thousand odd jobs in...
Waking up and smelling the crazy
From the Atlantic Monthly. Paul Keating's line comes to mind. "Where do you people get off?"