Environmental Economics

Economists on Environmental and Natural Resources News, Opinion, Analysis (and Other Stuff)

In Environmental Economics - Posted 1 year ago

I'm enjoying myself at home this long weekend - fencing in a vegetable garden to keep the marauding groundhogs out, hoping the sky clears up enough to...

Mystery

In Environmental Economics - Posted 1 year ago

Between this London Banker post and this one of Felix Salmon’s, or more specifically the comments, surely one of the biggest economic questi...

Tags: a fistful of euros , economics and demography , salmon8217s , london , banker

Weighing the Week Ahead: Economic Transition from Stimulus?

In Environmental Economics - Posted 1 year ago

The long list of government stimulus and assistance programs were all intended to be temporary. As the programs gradually end, one question is param...

Tags: the week ahead , xlp , xlu , week , data

Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in the Mediterranean

In Environmental Economics - Posted 1 year ago

Now we know that between them, the British and French air forces have flown 2,500 sorties over Libya, compared to 2,000 for the US, can we perhaps hav...

Tags: a fistful of euros , europe and the world , it8217s , munitions , rebel

An unholy alliance

In Environmental Economics - Posted 1 year ago

Sonia Le Gouriellec at Alliance Géostrategique quotes Bernard Badie on the Ivory Coast and the fact that democracy is a lot more than just elections....

Tags: a fistful of euros , europe and the world , history , not europe , political issues

How I was wrong about the euro

In Environmental Economics - Posted 1 year ago

This Transitions Online piece is fascinating – as south-eastern Europe has changed, the location of “Europe” or &#82...

Tags: a fistful of euros , economics currencies , the european union , transition and accession , euro

Greek Tragedy 5/27/2011

In Environmental Economics - Posted 1 year ago

The euro fell for a fifth straight day versus the Swiss franc on Thursday to a record low, with new troughs seen likely if uncertainty about Greece&am...

Tags: juncker , debt , greek , versus , eu

Afternoon Trading Going into the Long Weekend

In Environmental Economics - Posted 1 year ago

Are you leaving early today? We analyzed S&P 500 performance the day before the Memorial Day holiday weekend going back to 2000. Not surprisingly ...

Tags: weekend , early , go , day , trade

Niacin's Unexpected Flop

In Environmental Economics - Posted 1 year ago

Let's add to the uncertainty about whether we understand cardiovascular disease, OK? The NIH has been conducting a large statin-plus-niacin trial, whi...

Tags: cardiovascular disease , niacin , lower , trial , zetia

Short-Term Sector ETF Overbought / Oversold

In Environmental Economics - Posted 1 year ago

Looking at our short-term OBOS model, we see that the market and the majority of the sectors have moved lower vs their 12-day average and trading enve...

Tags: sector , short-term , overbought , etf , oversold