Sunday, February 28, 2010

Media Bias--Telling Us What We Want

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Via Marginal Revolution, a study which seems to show that newspapers give their readers what they want, in the way of political bias--that ...

Fraud and Investigations

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Got an email from a person who challenged me to investigate the fraud in the farm loan program.  It wasn't sent as a comment, so I won...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Are Farmers Wealthy Parasites?

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That's a question raised by this excerpt from a farmgate post on ERS research: " For more than 10 years the median income for far...
Friday, February 26, 2010

An "A" for Obama

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For transparency, at least.  From the White House blog: Today’s release is just one example of the many efforts that were recognized by a...

Photo Friday

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Via Chris Blattman here's the site of a photographer who has a series on "bureaucratics"--nice pictures.
Thursday, February 25, 2010

"Maintaining the Story" and Local Food

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Here's a UWisconsin-Madison  release on the problems of interfacing (my term) farmers and customers of locally grown food. It's hyp...

NAIS Failure

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From Chris Clayton  on the responsibility for the failure of NAIS: ...who at the top of the buying chain pushed back down and stated the...

The River of Riches

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That's the title of a book I'm reading now. (It's not new, but Tyler Cowen plugged his new book, which isn't yet at the li...

Not a Millennial

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Via Kevin Drum, I took the Pew Research quiz determining how much like a member of the Millennial generation I am.  Answer: 13 (very unlike)...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Klobuchar for SCOTUS? or President?

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Via Volokh, a long post by Tom Goldstein predicting what happens in Supreme Court positions.  (Short answer: Stevens retires, Ginsburg does...