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7 March 2009
29 November 2008
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Warnings of an imminent US recession in 2006 are partisan gloom rather than a real signal about the economy.Their words, before
For these pundits, the most dismal indicator is that we have a Republican Administration. They have been gloomy for six years now.
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I will add that I was definitely not expecting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to have ventured so far away from the idea of investment-quality mortgages that they had enough exposure in subprime loans to wipe out their capital.
3 November 2008
From one piece Sustainable Energy — without the hot air 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Just like Britain, Europe can’t live on its own renewables. So if the aim is to get off fossil fuels, Europe needs nuclear power, or solar power in other people’s deserts (as discussed on p179), or both.
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Solar thermal water heaters are a no-brainer. They will work almost everywhere in the world.
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So to fix climate change, we need to sort out a new way of getting energy. The climate problem is mostly an energy problem.
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For most materials, the embodied energy per unit weight is greater than or equal to 10 kWh per kg – the same as the energy per unit weight of fossil fuels.
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planes are already almost as energy-efficient as they could possibly be. Planes unavoidably have to use energy for two reasons: they have to throw air down in order to stay up, and they need energy to overcome air resistance. No redesign of a plane is going to radically improve its efficiency.
1 April 2002
From one piece Systematically Biased Beliefs about Economics: Robust Evidence of Judgemental Anomalies from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The robustness of apparent biases about economics suggests that the judgemental anomaly is real.Their words
Apparent biases' robustness suggests that the anomaly is real.
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Differences between the public's and economists' economic views do not solely reflect economists' self-serving bias.Their words
The paper first tests and decisively rejects the hypothesis that the differences solely reflect economists' self‐serving bias.
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Differences between the general public's positive economic views and economists' resemble other judgemental anomalies: Laypeople and experts systematically disagree.
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