Archive for April, 2008

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Quote of the Day: Government Doesn’t Make Gas

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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
The government takes over 40 cents a gallon in taxes for gasoline, far more than the profit per gallon made by oil refiners like Exxon. And the government doesn’t make any gas for you.
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New Cars Today: More Options At Lower Prices

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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
What is remarkable and amazing is that as “car options considered to be essential to car shoppers” have increased significantly between 1985 and 2007 (see chart above), new car prices have: a) increased much less than the general price level during that period, b) been relatively flat since […]

Russia vs. USA: Smoking and Obesity

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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Two big, very noticeable differences between Russia and the USA:

1. Everybody here in Moscow smokes. Well, almost everybody.
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McDonald’s and Customer Service in Russia

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Moscow: Most Expensive City? Not For Tourists

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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM

CNN–Moscow is supposed to be the most expensive city in the world to live in, and is 34.4% more expensive than New York City. But I don’t think that translates to Moscow being the most expensive city for a tourist to travel to. In fact, our group has […]

Moscow: It’s Booming and You Can Feel the Energy

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Two on McCainomics

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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
John McCain sure sounds like a tax rate-cutting fiscal conservative. His tax proposals, detailed in this speech last week, seem to extend the Reagan-Bush legacy of lower marginal rates across the board, and special emphasis on supply-side incentives (see various tax breaks below). But this article contrasts McCain […]

Random Notes On The Crisis

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[?]Submitted by Unsettling Economics
I was talking to a Costco manager who told me that sales of most items are flat, but liquor sales are brisk.
The New York Times reports on a phenomenon that I have heard of locally
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Genetic Engineering and Invasive Species

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[?]Submitted by Unsettling Economics
What follows is not an economic question. I have no expertise in genetic engineering, though I am a skeptic, worried about possible consequences — and even more worried about corporations is having property rights in such matters. Here is the background to my question:
The biological literature is filled […]

THERE WILL BE INFLATION?

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[?]Submitted by The Capital Spectator
The Federal Reserve’s two-day FOMC confab begins tomorrow and the tells AP: “We are entering the stage where it is time for the Fed to wind down and move to the sidelines. A quarter-point reduction is a nice segue to that transition. Short-term interest rates could stay […]

Let’s Think Long and Hard about Extending Those Bush Tax Cuts

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[?]Submitted by Econbrowser
There was a time one could plausibly argue that importing lots of goods and services, and borrowing a lot from abroad (financing the budget deficits that we’ve incurred since 2001) was a great idea. But at the time, about two and a half years ago, I made the following […]

Peter Hooper on the economic outlook

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[?]Submitted by Econbrowser
The speaker at our UCSD Economics Roundtable this week was Peter Hooper, chief economist for Deutsche Bank Securities. Here is a brief summary of his thoughts about the U.S. economic outlook.

Hooper thinks the U.S. has likely already entered a recession and is expecting U.S. real GDP growth to come […]

A ranking of WSJ forecasters

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[?]Submitted by EconWeekly
For a number of years, The Wall Street Journal has been conducting a survey of economic forecasts. The newspaper is kind enough to publish the prediction of each forecaster, so we can entertain ourselves observing how they fare.
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Immigration and Assimilation

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[?]Submitted by Businomics Blog
Our taxi driver from the Amsterdam airport longed to return to Turkey. He had lived in the Netherlands 36 years, since age 2, but would go back to Turkey in two years, when his son graduated from high school. He had nothing good to say […]

MSG & Weight Loss Pt 13 - Keys to Good Nutrition & to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

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[?]Submitted by Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

Healthy Weight Loss Pt 13
ELIMINATE ALL SOURCES OF M.S.G.
You’ve probably heard of “MSG,” which stands for
Mono Sodium Glutamate.
MSG is an “EXCITO-TOXIN” that is added to food in order to make it taste better AND in order […]

Thanking the Monkey

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[?]Submitted by An Animal-Friendly Life
For today’s entry, I originally set out to review Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals (Harper Collins, 4/29/08, $19.95), a forthcoming book written by my friend, Karen Dawn, but I ended up churning out a somewhat rambling essay instead, which some of you faithful […]

Parodius Da! Oh yeah!

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[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
This was the first official game in the Parodius series to be designed for coin-ops:
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Brief tape about Splendor Blast

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[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Check it out ahead.
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Dragon Breed delivery

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[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Whoa, is this an awesome adventure. Check it out ahead.

You play a warrior riding on the back of a dragon that can breathe fire as well, and almost similar to R-Type, you battle your way through a whole bunch of amazing worlds. The dragon’s tail […]

This month’s Wii and DS report

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Nintendo reports strong sales for both of these consoles:
TOKYO (AP) - Nintendo Co.’s net profit surged 47.7 percent to a record high, powered by strong sales of software and accessories for its popular Wii video game console and brisk sales of its DS handheld devices.
The […]

Well here’s something awful: the game based on the Street Fighter movie

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And what a fiasco that was, as some might recall, back in 1994. Even so, a game was produced based upon it, using digitized takes on the actors from the movie, and yep, most sadly enough the horrific Jean-Claude Van-Damme was among them. Here’s a […]

Law of the Game on Joystiq: EA + Take-Two =/= Monopoly

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In this week’s Law of the Game on Joystiq, I take the surprisingly unpopular opinion that an EA merger with Take-Two isn’t going to have any practical monopolistic effect in the market.
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61 Years Young with Turbulence Training

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Does Turbulence Training work for women? Yes. Does it work for beginners? Yes. Does it work for all ages? Yes. Is it fun? You bet.
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“Hello Craig, just to let you know that I just finished week three of beginners program. So one more week and I will advance […]

Tom Venuto Ab Exercise Recommendations…

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[?]Submitted by Turbulence Training
Some folks can’t understand how 2 fitness experts (i.e. Tom Venuto and myself) could disagree on the best way to exercise for fat burning.
Well, I’m here to tell you it’s not a big deal.
Experts disagree everyday in EVERY industry.
But getting back to burning YOUR belly fat and getting […]

Kekich Credo #4 for Fat Loss

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