Coco notes Sandhill cranes in a field destined to become a subdivision, and fights back bile: Sandhill cranes on a field that will soon be chopped up for sale because: you can’t do agriculture on land worth that much. I note the economic disincentives standing in the cranes’ way (the externality of a public good …
Commodities like copper are one of the best global macroeconomic indicators, and we’ve got copper in New Mexico. My colleague Rene Romo has a nice story in this morning’s paper (watch an ad to read it) translating the general into the specific: “In past times, if you’d get laid off, you’d go somewhere else and …
In the Guardian, David Appell begs us to accept the grim reality: Not one of us – you, me, Obama or the greenest activist anywhere in the world – is willing to live without the comforts fossil fuels provide us – heat, light, instant hot food, convenient transportation, modern agriculture and airplane travel.
Big Toe’s Christmas Visit Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Our old friend Big Toe stopped by on a trek through the Southwest, and was on hand today to help us decorate the family Christmas tree. (That’s him hanging one of our rubber chicken ornaments.) It was great to see him. Big Toe used to be Inkstain’s …
Chris Mooney had a nice piece this week on Science Progress about the decline in science specialist journalists at major mainstream media publications. I think Chris nails the problem squarely, but I’d like to elaborate on the implication, because it applies much more broadly. Here’s Chris’s key point: Science journalism, at its best, should also …
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Hoping Malcolm will like this one better. It’s New Mexico’s unemployment rate over the last 10 years, as compared to the national rate. (Red line NM, blue line national. Data courtesy of St. Louis Fed.) The data speak for themselves (the data speaks for itself?), but since this is a blog, I have to say …
This is one of those signs that, just as people with financial skin in the energy game didn’t believe last summer’s $140-plus oil prices, neither do they believe that $40-ish will be the going price for very long. From Bloomberg last week: Rental rates for deepwater drilling rigs continue to surge as a worldwide shortage …
Saul Hansell explains the underlying economic reality that comes with the Internet’s unbundling of the previously bundled product that my various employers over the years have been tricking you into buying: [T]he bad news for anyone who actually likes reading about where they live is that no one seems to be able to develop an …
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