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Carbon Dioxide or Solar Forcing? | ScienceBits
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A random walk in science. Carbon Dioxide or Solar Forcing? Carbon Dioxide or Solar Forcing? By: Nir J. Shaviv. Which mechanism is responsible for global warming over the 20. According to the common perception, the temperature over the 20. Probably being more important over the. Causes will probably be more dominant over the. Like many others, I was personally sure that CO. What is the evidence for an anthropogenic effect? The first question we wish to address is whether there is actual evidence indicatin...
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Consequences of the Oil Shock of 2007-08 | Econbrowser
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Analysis of current economic conditions and policy. Consequences of the Oil Shock of 2007-08. In a follow-up on my earlier post. I’d now like to discuss the second part of my paper, Causes and Consequences of the Oil Shock of 2007-08. Which I presented today at a conference at the Brookings Institution. Here I’ll review the role that the oil price shock may have played in causing the economic recession that began in 2007:Q4. Who examined the detailed response of various components of consumer spending,.
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Costs and benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline | Econbrowser
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Analysis of current economic conditions and policy. Costs and benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline. On the Obama Administration to approve the Keystone Gulf Coast Expansion Pipeline. I thought it would be helpful to review some of the debate. One issue that received a good deal of attention was the possibility that oil would spill from the new pipeline and contaminate water supplies in Nebraska and elsewhere. Let me begin with the report from the U.S. State Department. DOS calculated that there could.
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A ban on oil speculation? | Econbrowser
http://econbrowser.com/archives/2012/04/a_ban_on_oil_sp.html
Analysis of current economic conditions and policy. A ban on oil speculation? Joseph P. Kennedy II. Former Congressional Representative from Massachusetts, and founder, chairman, and president of Citizens Energy Corporation, has a proposal to make energy affordable for all. All we have to do, Kennedy claims, is “bar pure oil speculators entirely from commodity exchanges in the United States.”. Writing in the New York Times. That the U.S. physically produced on an average each day in 2011. Onc...By what m...
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Infrastructure fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/11/infrastructure.html
Infrastructure fact of the day. On November 19, 2008 at 1:13 pm. Spending [on infrastructure] is up 50 percent over the last 10 years, after adjusting for inflation. As a share of the economy, it will be higher this year than in any year since 1981. That’s from another excellent column by David Leonhardt. The real problem, of course, is the quality of our decisions on infrastructure. November 19, 2008 at 1:27 pm. The more stuff we build, the higher maintenance we build in for the future. Of course it wou...
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Mortgage Loan Restructuring, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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What will Saudi Arabia do? | Econbrowser
http://econbrowser.com/archives/2011/03/what_will_saudi.html
Analysis of current economic conditions and policy. What will Saudi Arabia do? One key question in determining the impact of instability in Libya and elsewhere on world oil markets is how much other countries can and will increase production to offset the shortfall. Here I review the critical role of Saudi Arabia in past disruptions and discuss the current situation. Figure 3 details Saudi production going back to 1973, with the two episodes highlighted above denoted as shaded regions. Throughout mos...
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Econbrowser Emoticon shifts to neutral | Econbrowser
http://econbrowser.com/archives/2009/08/econbrowser_emo
Analysis of current economic conditions and policy. Econbrowser Emoticon shifts to neutral. Sep 13, 2006. Feb 21, 2007. Apr 25, 2007. Jun 27, 2007. Oct 5, 2007. Jan 4, 2008. Aug 30, 2009. If you’ve only been following Econbrowser since 2008, you may have thought that the crabby countenance in the upper-right corner of our main page. For starters, we saw a surge in automobile sales. In July, and preliminary indications are that August will be even stronger. Meaning that September sales could fall sharply.
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Part II: What Ångström didn’t know « RealClimate
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Part II: What Ångström didn’t know. 8212; group @ 26 June 2007. By raypierre , with the gratefully acknowledged assistance of Spencer Weart. The long struggle to get beyond the fallacious saturation argument was recounted in historical terms. In Part II, I will provide a more detailed analysis for the reader interested in the technical nitty-gritty of how the absorption of infrared really depends on CO. The discussion here is based on CO. Absorption data found in the HITRAN. You’d need an eater of ...
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The Fed’s new policy tools | Econbrowser
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Analysis of current economic conditions and policy. The Fed’s new policy tools. We had to throw out our textbook descriptions of how monetary policy is implemented after the fall of 2008, as the Fed turned from its traditional tools to active use of large-scale asset purchases. A number of studies have now been conducted of the potential efficacy of these new policy tools. I surveyed some of the new studies. Last October. Today I’d like to discuss three new papers that have come out since then. Influence...
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