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PS3 motion controller fails to Move
Found on Tech Blog on Thu 11th Mar 10
Sony has every right to feel sore that Nintendo and Microsoft have stolen the limelight from it in adding motion-sensing to games. Sony had the EyeToy camera for sensing motion and putting players inside games on the PlayStation 2, long before Microsoft’s
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Employment and the flu
Found on Geary Behavioural Economics Blog on Thu 11th Mar 10
The relationship between labour market conditions and health has featured on this blog several times. This paper shows how increased employment increases incidence of the flu presumably through contagion:more infected people interacting with others.Are pink
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Forget Granite Countertops, Here Comes Electric-Vehicle Charging
Found on WSJ.com: Developments on Thu 11th Mar 10
Charging up the car in the garage might seem like something from the Jetsons cartoon, but builder KB Home is making that a reality Tuesday.The company now offers the option to pre-wire homes to accommodate electric-vehicle charging stations, the latest option
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BP Buying Devon Energy Assets for $7 Billion
Found on Oil Change on Thu 11th Mar 10
BP said Thursday that it would pay Devon Energy $7 billion for assets in Brazil, Azerbaijan and the Gulf of Mexico, and that the two firms would form a joint venture to develop an oil sands project in Alberta, Canada.
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The long wave of government debt
Found on naked capitalism on Thu 11th Mar 10
Andrew Scott, 11 March 2010The high levels of government debt have raised concern among policymakers and commentators. But this column argues that markets have financed much larger levels of debt than are currently predicted for the UK and US. Given the enormous
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German Exports and that Looming Double Dip
Found on Euro Watch on Thu 11th Mar 10
I hadn't seen an advance release of the January German export data, when I wrote the following on Tuesday, honest injun I hadn't:Well, this is only a hypothesis. But if the hypothesis has any validity we should be able to make some predictions on the basis
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Citi, AIG, Fannie, Freddie: The Horsemen Ride Again!
Found on PrefBlog on Thu 11th Mar 10
Some of the market’swounded horsemen are on the ride again. Around 1 p.m. shares and activity ofAIG burst higher.Thomson ReutersAbout a half hour later the excitement spread to the government-owned mortgage giantsFannie MaeThomson Reuters… andFreddie
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Monetary regime switches in India
Found on Poverty & Growth blog - - Building Capacity to Reduce Poverty on Thu 11th Mar 10
Ajay Shah points to the 6th research meeting of the NIPFP DEA Research Program. Some interesting papers presented.I was particularly interested by this paper[slideshowhere] Michael M. Hutchison, RajeswariSengupta, andNirvikar Singh titled- Monetary regime switches
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Adam Smith and role of governments!
Found on Urbanomics on Thu 11th Mar 10
Conventional wisdom on the role of governments, as highlighted by laissez faire supporters, has it that Adam Smith favored limiting government role to administering justice, enforcing private property rights, and defending the nation against aggression. Gavin
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Newman on Low-wage Workers
Found on The Bayesian Heresy on Thu 11th Mar 10
Katherine Newman, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Newman's case studies of fast-food workers in Harlem. Newman discusses the evolution of their careers and fortunes over time along with their dreams
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