Sunday, January 17, 2016

The economics of Netflix, and is it the next Amazon? (Thursday assorted links)

The economics of Netflix, and is it the next Amazon? (Thursday assorted links)
Stuart Goldenberg Imagine you run a global media conglomerate. Say you’re Robert A. Iger, the chief executive of Disney, or Brian L. Roberts, of Comcast, or…

January 17, 2016 at 11:34AM
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When Beauty Strikes

When Beauty Strikes
Across the street from my apartment building in Washington there’s a gigantic supermarket and a CVS. Above the supermarket there had been a large empty space…

January 17, 2016 at 11:20AM
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Saturday, January 9, 2016

The day of reckoning arrives for global socialism, Scott Sumner | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

The day of reckoning arrives for global socialism, Scott Sumner | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Tyler Cowen has a good post on the catastrophic collapse of the Brazilian economy: Now in fairness, Chinese growth in the heavy industry sector has slowed much…

January 9, 2016 at 01:00PM
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argued at the time (Chipotle’s Anti-GMO Stance Didn’t Keep Its Customers Safe)

argued at the time (Chipotle’s Anti-GMO Stance Didn’t Keep Its Customers Safe)
Imagine what would happen if a celebrity or the head of a major company took a proud public stance that ran contrary to the overwhelming consensus of the…

January 9, 2016 at 12:41PM
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Buffett’s revenge

Buffett’s revenge
FOR those exhausted by the festive season, now is the time to book a holiday. Hotels in New York’s Times Square cost four times more on New Year’s Eve than…

January 9, 2016 at 12:41PM
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Out of One Frying Pan, and Into Another - NYTimes.com

Out of One Frying Pan, and Into Another - NYTimes.com
ONE afternoon in February, Ahmass Fakahany, a financier by training, was contemplating the economics of forks. Baguette forks, to be precise — two silver ones…

January 9, 2016 at 12:40PM
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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Were we happier in the stone age? Were we happier in the stone age?

Were we happier in the stone age?
We are far more powerful than our ancestors, but are we much happier? Historians seldom stop to ponder this question, yet ultimately, isn’t it what history is…

December 31, 2015 at 07:39AM
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