Well, my Labor Market Economics class got entirely canceled for the semester, due to the professor having an illness. So I got placed in an independent study in the economics department at William and Mary. I’m actually pretty excited about it, because I can basically study anything I want.

If you read this blog regularly, you probably know that I’m interested in doing something related to environmental economics. I’ve come up with a few ideas of topics to focus on, but I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to decide. So I thought I’d post some of the topic ideas I had on here and see if any readers think they’d be interesting for me to study. Of course I will post what I learn on gimme-five.

1. Economics of Climate Change in General, in particular, in relation to the discount rate. (a large discount rate means environmental damage in the future doesn’t matter so much today in terms of present value, for example)

2. Comparison of Environmental incentives used to reduce CO2 emissions or improve ecosystems (i.e. Gas Tax v. Permit Trading)

3. Feasibility of international enforcement of climate regulations from an economic context.

Please welcome gimme-five’s newest author, Klives.  I know very little about Klives, except that his email address implies he is somehow associated with Kilgore, one of gimme-five’s former authors.  He plans to write a few investment columns for the site.

Anyways, I hope everyone enjoys his writing.  Sorry I haven’t been very active on the site lately.  I’m taking the LSATs on September 30th and studying for those along with school stuff has really taken a lot of my time.  I’ll write somewhat regular articles starting in October.

Featuring an interview with George’s girlfriend, Jessica, on the topic of childhood obesity in the USA today.  This was not recorded in pristine quality (I’m working on it…) so bear with me…

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What the heck? That’s right, gimme-five has a podcast.

I know what you’re thinking: don’t you need visitors to your website before you start a podcast? Ideally, yes, but keeping with gimme-five’s traditional status of “worst website of all time,” I’m going to go against the grain here. Since I am leaving to go to Nebraska with my beautiful girlfriend through this Sunday the 13th, I will be unable to write articles. But that doesn’t mean I won’t use my cell phone to spew worthless blabber on the internet! Prepare to listen to my boring voice rant about boring subjects that I would normally type about! Just check back on this page over the next couple days and hopefully I’ll call in. Woohoo!

gimme-five is back online, at least for the time being.  Here is a timeline of what happened:

Friday Afternoon: Everything is ok, I leave work to meet Jessica at the Austin City Grill.  We eat Mexican food and it is delicious.  The waiter winks at Jessica, but luckily my anger is offset by the fact that the restaurant is entirely powered by wind energy.  Cool!

Friday Night: Jessica and I leave Washington, DC to return to Herndon, VA, where we go to see the Da Vinci Code.  Readers of gimme-five were right, I didn’t like it very much.  But then again I hadn’t read the book.  Jessica had read it and she did enjoy the movie.

Friday Late Night: I check gimme-five, as I always do before I go to bed, and notice it is down.

Saturday Morning: gimme-five is still down.  I check my webhost, Blazernetwork.com and notice that only their front page on their website works.  I try calling them but get redirected to an answering machine.

Saturday Afternoon: gimme-five is still down.  I write a few emails to Blazer Network and get no response.  I have come to expect a lack of response, however, since every time I’ve had a problem in 2006, I have received no response from them.  Oh well.