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Holiday Wishes for You

Holiday Music Encore

Music, Harmony, and Social Cooperation

How the Grinch Stole the Free Market

Breaking News: State Regulatory Procedures Do Not Favor Consumers

Happy Holidays, Traveling Grandma!

Superficial Journalism, Gps Watch Edition

Waterless Fracking?

Does a Public Good Argument Justify Subsidizing Private Energy Production?

Did the Federal Government Invent the Shale Gas Boom?

Y'all Have a Happy Holiday!

David Henderson on Crony Capitalism

Happy Birthday, Bill of Rights; You Will Be Missed

"Market Failure": You Keep Using That Term. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.

The Defense Authorization Act and Unlawful Detention

An Example of What Not to Do in Persuasion

Natural Gas is Too Cheap and Too Plentiful

Cute Boots!

An Sea Meetings Coda

Rory Sutherland on Subjective Meaning

Cost Savings and Value Creation Are Different

"Death of a Currency"

Happy Thanksgiving

Is Subsidising Renewable Energy is a Good Way to Wean the World off Fossil Fuels?

Gas Exporting Countries Forum Wants Higher Output and Higher Prices

California Regulators Approve Generous Contract to Multinational Corporation at California Ratepayer Expense

Hotelling Takedown

Pipelines and Politics, or "Flow My Tears, but Not in a Pipeline Crossing U.S. Borders Because We'll Never Get the Permit Approved at the State Department"

Massachusetts Observes That Green Power Mandates May Be Raising Consumer Costs

Stubhub and Major League Baseball

Paul Krugman Comments on Hydraulic Fracturing and Solar Power

Price Gouging Allegations on Cancer Drugs

A Good Non-Technical Introduction to Shale Gas

The "Gary Johnson Rule", the Political Economy of Election Bias, and Fundamental Principles

Wherein the Jobs Jobs Jobs Rhetoric Hampers Solar Power Development

Beacon Power Files for Bankruptcy; Boulder Co Contemplates Municipalization of Power Assets; Other Energy Stories of Note

When Price Ceilings Become Price Targets

On Belief in the Possibility of Price Spikes

Wired Uk Profiles Inventor James Dyson

The Beautiful Transmission Tower, the Glamorous Wind Turbine

Why Did Water Utilities in the U.S. Become Mostly Publicly Owned?

The Smart Grid and the Regulatory Barriers Thereto

Special Energy Section in Today's Nyt

Nest's Elegant Learning Thermostat -- but is It Transactive?

Monsters of Grok T-shirts

Exelon's John Rowe and Google's Eric Schmidt: Truth to Power?

What Do the Occupy Wall Streeters Care About? Haidt on the Moral Foundations of Ows

Praise for a New York Times Article on Natural Gas Fracking (or, How Property Rights Help Mitigate Potential Environmental Harms)

Leisure Reading While Sick

Energy Industry Continues to Reshape Itself to Fit the New World of Oil and Gas Resources

Video: Recent Data on Economic Freedom and Economic Growth

Horwitz and Carden on Corporatism

Levi: What The Nobel Prize Tells Us About Oil

A Political Economy Model for Occupy Wall Street

Sargent-sims Nobel 2011

Markets Make You More Trusting, but Not Necessarily More Trustworthy

A Disturbing Historical Parallel: The Patriot Act and the Star Chamber

Boulton & Watt on New £50 Note

National Research Council Committee on the Renewable Fuel Standard: Costly Program of Uncertain Benefits

Smil's Brief List of the Pioneering Creators of Electric Systems

The Wsj's Confused Story on Gasoline Prices and Crude Oil Prices

Price Gouging Laws Wasted Resources During the Hurricane Irene Emergency

Paul Ryan's Review of Sachs' New Book

Students for Liberty Talk: Economics and Complexity

Demand for Gasoline is More Price-inelastic Than Commonly Thought

A Coasian Look at Pesticide and Genetic Drift

On the Obligations of Income-Earners and Property-Owners to Pay Taxes

Razor-Razorblade, Printer-Cartridge, ... Tablet-Media

New Economic Freedom of the World Report, and Some Suggestive Connections

Will Nebraska Hold Up Keystone Xl Pipeline? and Other Energy Stories in the News

A Great Relative Risk Graphic for Terrorism

Don’t Peak: On Ill-Considered Peak Oil Debates

At&t/T-Mobile Merger is About Spectrum, Redux

Sanchez on Netflix

Resiliency Comes from More Risk of Bank Failure, Not Less

James Hamilton on Daniel Yergin on Peak Oil

Propublica Gets the Establishment View on the Arizona-socal Blackout, the Establishment Says It Needs More Money and Authority

Economist's Babbage Column on Network Reliability

Yergin on Oil, II

Yergin on Oil

More Oil Available in North America Than Previously Thought

Interstate Commerce in Electric Power - Arizona Policymaker's Two-faced View

At&t's History in a Nutshell

Authoritarian Hypocrisy and "Anything for Security"

Stimulus Failure: A Costly Lesson on Keynes and Say's Law?

Be Indomitable. Refuse to Be Terrorized.

Another Good Response to the Obama Administration's Mistaken Antitrust Policy

Suderman on Spectrum

You Will Never Get a Railway Thereby ...

Quality, Broadband, and Spectrum: What the Doj's At&t/T-Mobile Lawsuit Misses

Beacon Power Patents Idea of Flywheels for Frequency Regulation?

Whales and Electricity, and Sustainability

Smart Appliances and the Innovation Cycle

Bastiat, Krugman, Horwitz on Earthquakes

The Industrial Revolution Required More Energy Resources Than Provided by the Annual Cycle of Photosynthesis

Free the Electricity Consumer!

Biking and Climbing and Driving ... and Eating!

Passage of Wisconsin's Anti-price Gouging Bill Boosted by President Bush's Public Remarks

Post 9/11 Gasoline Price Gouging in Wisconsin: Two Views

FERC, NERC Conclude "Weather-related Causes" Explain Most Electric Power and Gas Supply Problems During February's Extreme Cold in Southwest U.S.

Penn Jillette and Hayek: "I Don't Know"

Raising Mpg Standards, Part 2: Morris Well Explains the Relative Advantages of Raising the Gasoline Tax

Raising Mpg Standards, Part 1: Morris is Not Persuasive in His Claim That Cafe Works

Google, Motorola, and the Effects of Vertical Integration

Lomborg and Haab on Light Bulbs and Technology

Learn Liberty: Tragedy of the Commons

Cleantech Opportunity: Clean Water for Fracking

Devon Energy's Bet on Barnett Shale, Made 10 Years Ago, Has Paid off

Power Consumption Reaches New Peaks in Texas, Ercot Narrowly Avoids Rolling Blackouts

Epa to Power Industry: Don't Worry About Reliability, We Can Grant Waivers

The Unsustainable Fair Trade Business Model

Test

At Freakonomics, the Realization That State Solar Power Policies May Be Less Than Optimal

Electricity Restructuring and the Failure to Quarantine the Monopoly

Open Up Bidding for Oil and Gas Leases on Federal Lands

Advisory Committee's Fracking Report Spurs Outpouring of Spin

Gasoline Taxes and Cafe Regulations

Gas Price Gouging on Rise*

Monday Morning Debt Recommendations

Worried About Too Much Demand Elasticity in Electric Power Markets

Coase, Legal Liability, and Pesticide Drift

Blaming Obama for Global Equities Drops? Really?

Book Review: Mark Pennington's Robust Political Economy

Evaporative Cooling: Low Tech Method Good for Facebook's High Tech Facility

More Internal Review of the Nyt Shale Gas Skepticism Articles, More Dishonest Journalism Discovered

Overfishing Conference at Perc

Debt Cynicism

Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself

Catching My Eye This Morning ...

A Heat Wave Without Blackouts

First Thoughts on Spotify

Great Sports Journalism: Jason Gay on Jens Voigt

The Energy Industry Insiders That Didn't Bark

Quote of the Day: Hayek on Expediency and Freedom

Boettke on Cowen, Smith, Schumpeter, and Stupidity

Risks and Regulation, Part 2

NYT Editor on Shale Gas Skeptic Article: We Should Have Done Better

Risks and Regulation

Scottish Wind Power Plants Paid Not to Produce

Role of Independent Producers in the Early Development of California's Oil and Gas Industry

Oil Markets Appear Unfazed by Announced Release of Oil from Strategic Reserves

Walmart Express, Market Definition, and Local Politics

Richard Epstein on a "Declining United States"

Protesting the Crime of Cycling While Skirted

New York Regulators Take Steps Toward Allowing Fracking for Natural Gas Production

Antitrust As the Enemy of Innovation, and Therefore the Enemy of Consumers

Appropriable Quasi-rents, Local Governments, and State and Federal Renewable Power Policy

Horwitz Reminds Us That Classical Liberalism Insists Governments Treat Citizens As Equal Before the Law

Fiesta Bowl Wants Money Back from Politicians

In Search of Reports That Confirm or Support the New York Times Stories on Shale Gas Skepticism

John Hanger Reports the Shale Gas News Too Good to Print in the New York Times

Additional Reactions to the New York Times Articles Documenting Shale Gas Skepticism; More on Fracking

New York Times Devotes Front Page Stories to Various Skeptical Remarks Made About Shale Gas Resources from over the Past Few Years

Monday Afternoon Speed Blogging

Kazman on Cafe Regulations

Congressman Called for Gas Relief

Valuing Ecosystem Services is Difficult and Controversial

Enlightened Economic History: Honoring Joel Mokyr

Recommended in the Comments: Ten Fracking Things Everyone Should Know

Don't Bet Against Netflix, at Least Not Now

Science, Law, and Regulation of Fracking for Natural Gas in the Marcellus Shale

Art Carden on Price Gouging

Senate Does Vote to Eliminate Ethanol Subsidies

Horwitz, Henderson, Hayek on the Police State

French Fracking Fracus

Economics of Power Market Design Compared Unfavorably to Climate Science

They Can't Even Pull off the Ethanol Subsidy Repeal ...

Distortionary Effects of Three-tier Liquor Regulation, Wisconsin Edition

Environmental Benefits from the Keystone Xl Pipeline

Virginia Postrel on Light Bulbs

Schumpeterian Tablet Competition

Saving Fisheries with Property Rights

Sure, Congress Can Regulate Light Bulbs That Travel in Interstate Commerce, but a "Made in Texas, Stayed in Texas" Bulb...?

A Voluntary Association Disaster Relief Update

Saying Goodbye to Edison's Hot Little Light Bulb?

Keystone Pipeline Leaks Boost Case for New Keystone Xl Pipeline and Other Energy Stories in the News

Price Gouging Op-ed Appears in the Washington Times

The Rhetoric of Regulation: Free Markets Are Regulated

Doe Shale Gas Hearings, Day 1: Companies Want State, Not Fed Regulation; Environmentalists Suspicious of Panel Bias

Do Anti-price Gouging Laws Help the Victims of Natural Disaster?

Another Data Point on Oil and Gas Shale Fracking Profitability

Recently Caught My Eye ...

Power Outages Hot and Cold

Texas Legislature Passes Fracking Disclosure Bill

Civil Liberties and Economics: More Than Just Free Markets

Billionaire Boone Pickens Can't Understand Why the Billionaire Koch Brothers Don't Support the Slimmed Pickens Plan

CFTC Files Oil Market Manipulation Case

Eagle Ford Shale Providing Oil Production Boost

Hydraulic Fracturing Panel Discussion at Aei

Non-traffic Causes of Traffic Congestion

Michael Webber's "Energy at the Movies"

Texas Gaining Smart Grid Buzz

Abnormal Stock Market Returns for Members of the House of Representatives

Future of Lubbock's Power Supply Efforts Heads to Court, with Lubbock Citizens Paying Lawyers on Both Sides of Case

Massachusetts Wants $22.5 Million in Tax Breaks Back from Evergreen Solar, Company in Dire Financial Condition

Keystone Xl Pipeline Hyperbole Heats Up

Cheap Natural Gas Upsetting Wind Development Plans, and Other Energy Stories

Waxman to Koch Industries: "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Capitalist?"

"How Social Influence Can Undermine the Wisdom of Crowd Effect"

Ercot Reliability Monitor Issues Report on the February 2 Rolling Blackouts

Bonneville Power Administration Says No to Negative Prices Again

Gasoline Price Gouging Complaints Spur Kentucky, Maryland Attorneys General into Action

Economic Understanding: "There’s a Lot of Confirmation Bias out There"

"Dc, It's Not Just for Crazy People"

Study Finds No Groundwater Issues from Gas Well Fracking

Things That Caught My Eye: Subsidies, Wine, Leds, Dismal Economists

The Uk's Commitment to Carbon Reductions?

Spring Weekends in Chicago--athletics and Music Edition

Two Views on Gasoline Prices

Saturday Was World Fair Trade Day, Help a Coffee Grower by Ignoring "Fair Trade Marketing" and Buying Quality Coffee Instead

The Fracking Song: Explainer with Lyrics and Links

Interesting Links Du Jour

Will Android@Home Help Make Smart Grid More Consumer-Centric?

Should Buildings Be Wired for Dc Power Distribution?

Study Finds Methane in Pennsylvania, Ny Groundwater Associated with Gas Well Fracking

Opportunities in Power Market Design: Wind Power, Capacity Markets, Optimization Software

Sidney Hook’s 1960 Review of Hayek's “The Constitution of Liberty”

Hayek and Dennett on the Design Fallacy

Hayek's Birthday, Hayek's Week, Hayek's Century

Fukuyama Reviews New Edition of Hayek's Constitution of Liberty

Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group Aims to Take the Air out of the Gasoline Price Parachute

Epri White Paper Surveys the Electrical Energy Storage Field

Matt Ridley Writing Up the Shale Gas Shock

Prepaid Power Consumers Using Salt River Project's M-power Service Reduce Power Consumption About 12 Percent

Homeland Security: Eroding Your Human Rights Without Any Benefit-cost Analysis

Mark Perry: Gasoline Taxes Vs. Exxon Profit, Per Gallon

A Wal-mart Long-haul Truck Has More Intelligence in It Than a Typical Water System

New Jersey is Not Exactly the Sunshine State, but Solar Panels Spring Up with Help of State Government

Independent Monitor Finds No Market Abuse During Ercot Rolling Blackouts on February 2

Eia Releases Annual Energy Outlook 2011

Jonah Lehrer on Voter Ignorance

Montana-alberta Transmission Line Developer Wants Eminent Domain Power to Overcome Landowner's Resistance

Homeowners Recoup Their Investment in PV Systems in California

Data Center Power Use Visualized

Using Regulation to Raise Rivals Costs

Entergy Says It Will Join the Midwest Iso

U.S. Attorney General: "It is Evident That There Are Regional Differences in Gasoline Prices"

Why Do Customers Want to Prepay for Electric Power Service?

Oil Speculator Witch Hunt, 2011 Edition

"What We Call 'smart Metering' Today Will Business As Usual Tomorrow."

Why Do Credit Rating Agencies Still Have Any Credibility?

Pandering, Politicians, and Oil Prices

Fracking Regulation Just Became a Little Bit More Difficult

Learnliberty.org: Unplanned Order

BPA Continues Not to Have a New Plan for Handling Excess Renewable Power Production

Updated Blog Theme

Regulatory Inertia, Antitrust Edition

Natural Gas Fracking News Update

Price Gouging Interview on the Radio

Gusher of BP Oil-spill Fund Creates "Spillionaires"

Next Restaurant: Pricing and Ticketing Innovation Redux

A Once-stable Price Now Responding to Demand Changes Brings Price Gouging Charge

Model Oil and Gas Resource Development Regulations for Arkansas

Arizona Regulators Can Require Utilities to Buy Renewable Power Even if It Raises Consumer Rates

Government Shutdown: Shouldn't We Be Asking Some Deeper Questions?

Don, Deirdre, Dignity

The International Possibilities of Petroleum from Shale Will Reshape Markets

Goose Island: What if Acquiring Capital Cannibalizes Your Market?

More on the Trade Dependence Meme

John Asked for a Cycling Post ...

Law Does Not Evolve Apace with Economic Dynamism

Market Design Helps People Attain Goals Effectively

Kauffman Econ Bloggers Forum Today!

Onion: Fruit, Vegetable, or Economics Rag?

Where Are the Female Economist Bloggers?

Adam Smith Symposium: Smith As Virtue Theorist?

New Atmospheric Research on Contrails

Commercial, Merchant Compressed-air Energy Storage Plant Under Development?

Economics Error: Trade Makes People "Dependent"

How Can Property Rights in Subsurface Water Work in West Texas?

Update: Industry, Environmental Group Working on Shale Gas Drilling Rules

The Att/t-mobile Merger and Spectrum Policy

Dignity and Liberty for Ordinary People Brings Social Growth and Development

Concentrated Benefits, Dispersed Costs: Million Dollar Fraud That No Victim Has Strong Incentive to Fight

Meanwhile, More "Power Market and the State" Battles in New Jersey and Maryland

Would a 'pennsylvania Power Authority' Be Good for Pennsylvanians?

"The Problem with Price Gouging Laws"

Price Gouging for Potassium Iodide Pills

Is Economics a Science? (liquidity Trap Edition)

Deirdre Mccloskey on Bourgeois Dignity

The Economics of Bike Lanes

Will Wilkinson on the Economics of Disasters

Update on "Will Faking a Consumer Cartel Help Make Power Markets More Efficient?"

Netflix Recommendations: Deep or Random?

Reason on Energy: Nuclear Power and Light Bulbs

BPA Still Won’t Pay Negative Prices to Get Wind Power Producers to Curtail

Price Gouging News Roundup (march 2011)

For Libertarians and Those Who Love Them

Rob Harmon at Tedxranier: How the Market Can Keep Streams Flowing

CERA Week and Smart Grid "Thought Leadership"

Hayek's Knowledge Problem Wielded Like a Scalpel

Russ Roberts on Japan, Summers, and the Broken Window

Reversing the Seaway Pipeline

Another Economic Illiteracy Alert, This One from Larry Summers, Ph.d.

Economic Illiteracy Alert of the Day: Ag. Secretary Tom Vilsack

Progress Toward a Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Thwarted by Shale Gas

From Rebound to Backfire: Tierney Column Examines Limits to Use of Energy Efficiency Policy to Pursue Energy Conservation

Fracking Wastewater Not Causing Radioactivity Issues in Pennsylvia Rivers

A Triple-Dividend from Pigovian Gasoline Taxation?

Bainbridge's Broad Brush Criticisms on Empirical Legal Studies Slams All Interdisciplinary Legal Work

Texas Water Rampage

Singing About Pricing (Is It, Too, Like Dancing About Architecture?)

New York Times Article Advances Public View of Environmental Issues Surrounding Hydrofracking

New Working Paper: Mirror Neurons, Adam Smith, and Sympathy

Intrusive Tsa Searches Create Profit Opportunity for Adidas

Faruqui and Toney Debate Smart Meters and Dynamic Pricing

Zone Pricing Ban Proposal Advances in Connecticut, Zone Price Ban Law in New York Still Not Working

Our Next Fear: Peak Rocks?

Streetwise Professor: Bootleggers and Baptists in Russia

The Steady Sun and Clean Wind ... Not!

Another Court Dismisses Price Fixing, Price Gouging Claims Against Martha’s Vineyard Gasoline Retailers

Another Comment on United States V. Keyspan Corporation

You Think the Kids Are Alright? Well Look at This Tiny Blue Pin on My Shirt and Think Again

John List's $10 Million Crazy Idea Field Experiment in Education

The Law on Fracking Oil and Gas Wells

Ups Turns to Lng, Not Cng, for Natural Gas Fueled Long-haul Trucks

Crude Oil Prices Reacting to the Middle East, North African Unrest

More on Cushing and the Wti-brent Crude Oil Price Spread

Effects of Anti-price Gouging Legislation on Supply Chain Dynamics

For-profit Corporations Can't Be Trusted

If Truth is What Your Freshmen Students Let You Get Away With, Then...

How Has My Happiness Varied over Time?

The Geography of Ethanol's Support in Congress

Is the Deregulated Market in the Ercot Region Sufficiently Competitive?

Bye-bye Wti? Local Conditions May Sink Global Oil Price Benchmark

Demsetz Discusses Coase's Mistake on Pigou and Social Costs

Fair Trade for Coffee May Be Good, But...

Ercot Rolling Blackout News: Powerful Market Forces Already at Work

Ercot Blackout Hearings Underway in Texas State Senate

Why Do Americans Drive More Than Europeans?

An Experimental Test of Automated Market Power Mitigation Finds the Procedures Work

Nate Silver's Valentine to Huffington Post Bloggers...

Can We Count on Cheap Natural Gas for Decades to Come?

Good News and Bad News from Price-spike Induced Failure of Retail Power Company in Texas

Roundup of News and Commentary on the Texas Rolling Blackouts

Gmu Economists Conflict on Hayek and the Discovery of Efficient Laws, I Think

Haidt on Political Bias Among Social Psychologists

What About Electric Bikes? and Regular Bikes? and Can I Get a Pony?

More Cold for Texas and a Test of My Conjecture on Preparedness

Transmitting Power from Mexico to Texas

Joan Robinson on the Two Koreas in 1977

We Don't Need a Geothermal Portfolio Standard

The Natural Gas That Didn't Come in from the Cold

Better Living Through Applied Statistics: Cracking Scratch-off Lottery Games

Hernando Desoto, Property Rights, and Egypt

Texas Observer: Some Companies Made Millions Off the Texas Blackouts

Speed As a For-profit Service

Cold Snap Brings Rolling Power Outages to Texas; is Ercot Policy of Isolation at Fault?

Think Globally, Solve Locally?

United States V. Keyspan Corporation Antitrust Case Settles for Paltry $12 Million

Which of These Former Elected Officials Doesn't Love Ethanol Mandates? Al Gore, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum

From the "No Surprises Here Department": Price Controls Cause Chaos in Ethiopian Markets

Investors Using Municipal Power Company Borrowing to Maximize Private Returns?

U.S. Military Aid Funds Tear Gas Used to Repress Peaceful Protestors in Egypt

Understanding Libertarian Morality: "Regulations Trigger a Sense of Resistance in Me"

I Detect a Fundamental Tension in This Headline on Wind Power

Dear President Obama: You Don't "Win" Economics

The U.s. As Natural Gas Exporter?

State of the Union Watching Advice: Don't.

An Act Purporting to Ban Gasoline Zone Pricing in Connecticut

Ethanol Blather Courtesy of the Epa and the Financial Times

What Has the Eu Ever Done for Us? Carbon Edition

Troubles, from the Point of View of the Solar Power Industry

Some Economics of Tsa Policies

Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Not Living Up to California Program's Expectations

More on Evergreen Solar's Move to China

It's Lysander Spooner's Birthday Too!

Paul Cézanne's Birthday

Is Rationalizing Regulation Even Possible Through Political Processes?

Evergreen Solar Moves Manufacturing to China

Jay Hancock is Not Happy with the Pjm Power Market

BPA Won't Pay Negative Prices to Get Wind Power Producers to Curtail

Please State the Nature of the Economic Emergency: a Note on Price Gouging Laws

Julian Simon and John Tierney Were Just Lucky, He Guesses

Technological Developments Useful in Eventually Producing the Equivalent of Neal Stephenson's "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer"

First, Kill All the Subsidies

Ronald Coase Interview

In Which the Author Explains the Likely Origin of the Idea for a Professional Code of Ethics Among Economists

A Revival of Interest in the History of Economic Thought?

Netflix Streaming

Randomized Testing for Online Fundraising Appeals

When Helping Hurts: Randomized Experiment Shows Free Legal Aide Delays Unemployment Benefits

Rob Bradley Jr. Wishes His Organization Was Smaller and His Work Was Less Valuable

Would Granting Futures Exchanges CopyRight Protection for Prices Deter Some Market Manipulation?

The Tsa's Wholesale Violation of Our Civil Rights, Including Economic Liberty

An Example of Ways Poorly Constructed Markets Can Fail

My Grid-interop Talk: Regulation's Role in Stifling Innovation

Macroeconomic Implications of Residential Electricity Consumption

Hello [Tap Tap Tap] ... is This Thing On?

Energy News and Outlook: Meet the New Year, Same As the Old Year