Economist/columnist/blogger/ex-TreasuryGuy Bruce Bartlett has started Bartlett’s Notations, a new horse in the Fiscal Times stable. He makes the point that it was once difficult to find solid information, but that those who did get it were able to capitalize on it in some fashion, precisely because of its scarcity.

After examining the iPhone 4 advertisements, it appears that Apple is showing 3 to 5 times the Pixels Per Inch (PPI) in their ads when they should only be showing 2 times the PPI.

Apple’s iPhone 4 has been officially unveiled and the technology leap is staggering. The good news for existing iPhone contract owners is that AT&T is letting them upgrade immediately.

The authors propose that many policy makers around the globe view the Internet and Internet adoption as critical to economic and social viability and success. They believe that the Internet can be seen as a “general-purpose” technology but that it can also play an important role in: 1) The reduction of transaction costs; 2) A forum for increased political discourse; 3) Provide for educational opportunities; and, 4) Promote social change.

(So says Ecclesiastes) In a post earlier today, George comments on the silliness of assuming that a company’s stock price should rise inexorably and that if it does not then it must be the CEO’s fault. Indeed, and it is elementary investment economics that the price of a stock shoots up only if there is [...]

David Heinemeir Hansson has laid waste to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in his diatribe “You couldn’t pay me to work for Ballmer”. The dubious “evidence” he uses is the comparison of Microsoft stock prices of the 1990s to the 2000s. The problem is that Bill Gates remained at Microsoft well after 2000 and the 2000 stock prices were artificially inflated.

In Bennett’s latest work he investigates the FCC’s Mobile Competition Report. Bennett believes that the U.S. cellular market appears healthy. He points out that Americans pay the lowest price for minutes in the world and have access to the latest and greatest phones that cost less than European alternatives that are not quite as stellar. But he points out that the FCC’s latest report paints a dire picture of the marketplace that is in need of regulation.

Every sports fan now knows of an event that will become tagged as THE CALL, the greatest umpiring mistake ever made. The FCC has blown the call on Net Neutrality, and any fool can see it. Persisting in their present course will cause its members to spend their lives being pointed to on the street as the people who ruined the Internet.

Generally speaking when I start reading something about metered billing my first instinct is always to think, “Whoa! Don’t touch my internetz!” But after the initial shock wears off it always seems reasonable to me.

Free Press has long claimed that Net Neutrality is crucial in protecting free speech, but now they have signed a petition asking the FCC to start monitoring “hate speech” over the Internet. The hypocrisy isn’t very surprising given that Free Press’ definition of free speech is far from what the definition in the Constitutional since they believe that free speech must be “free as in free beer”, but not free from government control.