“NYC Stoops and Horse Manure” Many suspect it, but I have definitive proof that people’s minds really are in the gutter. Literally. In almost 2,000 posts over 3 years covering everything from Twin Cities real estate to Federal Reserve monetary policy to geothermal energy, the City Lakes blog post getting the most attention on Google...Read More
Still Casting Stones . . . But Now With (Lots of) Caveats An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today. “Laurence J. Peter [Editor’s note: to see my rebuttal to Freakonomics, the predecessor to SuperFreakonomics, click here] So, I finally finished off the (surprisingly short)...Read More
Not so “Green” Technology No, this isn’t my much promised dissection of SuperFreakonomics’ potshots at Realtors (continuing in the spirit of Freakonomics). I’m only on a page 36. Instead, it’s a quick post calling attention to a bit of Manhattan trivia the authors uncovered (never heard it before, but it certainly sounds plausible). Namely, the...Read More
SuperFreakonomics: due Oct. 20 “A Realtor and a pimp perform the same primary service.” —SuperFreakonomics (2009) Egged on by their success skewering Realtors in their best-selling 2005 book, “Freakonomics,” its authors have an encore due out next week. Judging by the above quote from the book, they plan to pick up where they left off....Read More
