The Finite World – Krugman at the NY Times talking about the resurgence in global commodity prices over the last year. Economic recovery in developing economies driving the markets, with the US, and indeed the entire West, largely irrelevant. Not only are we a smaller than ever slice of the pie, we’re not the ones building cities for hundreds of millions of people from scratch. I’m not sure I really understand his conception of inflation though. If rising commodity prices don’t constitute the most basic, raw form of inflation (you get less physical stuff in exchange for the same amount of labor performed), then I’m not sure what does. Historically we’ve made the economic approximation that natural resources are infinite, and all you have to do is pay the cost of going out and getting them. If that changes, then things will get weird. Maybe even weird to the point of sensible!
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UN statement on WikiLeaks
UN Joint Statement on WikiLeaks – A pretty unequivocal statement from the UN to the effect that WikiLeaks’ activity is legal, and that the extrajudicial sanctions which have been applied to it are not.
The Economics of Changing Car Parking to Bike Parking
The Economics of Changing Car Parking to Bike Parking – A study demonstrating that in commercial districts where both bicycle and car parking space is scarce, it is in the best interests of the merchants to re-allocate car parking spaces to bicycles, because per unit area, bike parking spaces generate more sales revenue. Despite this, many commercial districts allocate public parking area at something like 100:1 cars:bikes.
Bike League Board Chair Resigns
Bill Hoffman just resigned from the board of the League of American Bicyclists, and based on what he has to say about it, I'm glad he did! He's apparently upset that the League is now advocating policies which will encourage more utilitarian cycling, better separated infrastructure for bikes, and generally getting *more* people on bikes, growing their base, instead of just pandering to the self-described "enthusiasts" that have made up their membership throughout the recent decades of the Bicycle Dark Ages in North America. Thank you for resigning Bill… I think I might just become a member of the League as a result!
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