Mrs. CC and I are headed off to Switzerland tonight for a week of winter sports and debauchery high-minded panel discussions in the mountain resort of Davos. I will be posting regularly and even, heaven forfend, vlogging. But before I go, I’ll leave you with these encouraging words from Arthur Jensen, the big-media CEO (played [...]
The Economic Cycle Research Institute, a forecasting firm in New York, did a better job of calling the start of the last recession than just about anybody else, so I checked in last week with ECRI managing director Lakshman Achuthan to see where he thought things stood. He still doesn’t think we’re quite in a [...]
My list of the 10 reasons why 2008 is different from 1971 caught the attention of A-list econoblogger Tyler Cowen (wow, writing lists really is a surefire ticket to blogging fame and fortune). Writes Cowen: This is funny … but of course it misses the point. One big difference is that we use energy much [...]
