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| | Forbes Reporting on the Financial Meltdown Scenario (The idea that I presented in a recent article that we face the risk of a "financial meltdown" is becoming more mainstream. Today Munchau...)
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| | Samwick Media Watch (I'll be on NPR's Marketplace this evening, putting in my 1% of a share of Bear Stearns stock on the goings-on in financial markets. The theme--is this fair and why should you...)
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| | Elsewhere (Some feminists have started blogging on economics: Kathy G. and Allison. Kathy G. doesn't seem to draw on Feminist Economics. I don't know about Allison.I recently stumbled on the blog of...)
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| | Two Problems, One Mathematics (1 of 2) ("Besicovitch insists that I publish; the fact that I was able to forsee interesting mathematical results shows that there must be be something in the theory."...)
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| | J. S. Mill on Method (1.0 IntroductionJohn Stuart Mill wrote an essay on the methodology of economics or rather, in the language of his day, Political Economy. I look at it in a Whiggish fashion to...)
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| | Neuroblastoma is Genetic (Because of the Unknown Son's battle with Neuroblastoma, we try to keep abreast of new developments in treatment. So, we were pretty interested in this news piece. A group...)
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| | Good Resource on Derivatives (I recently came across this site called Global Derivatives. They've got some resources that students (and faculty) might find useful: a number of excellent spreadsheet...)
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| | Studies Show That 87% of All Statistics Are Made up On the Spot (Once again, Scott Adams nails it.
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| | Exam Blogging (I'm in the midst of giving my Advanced Corporate Finance class their final. Since it's open-book/ open-notes, monitoring costs are almost zero (I just have to check for occasional...)
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| | Stock Tickers Bleg (I'm working on a project with my students, and need a list of the tickers of ALL publicly traded stocks. Does anyone out there have such a list (or know who does)?
...)
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| | The UCLA Fly-Out (So I'm a day late in posting. Apologies. I've been working on my senior thesis and the ball has finally gotten rolling. I guess that is another post though. On to UCLA:I left...)
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| | Does redshirting help? (Any parent with a child born near the school entry age cutoff faces a dilemma - should they let their child start school a little early, or a little late? In the US, the...)
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| | Best blog comment of the year? (…comes from Paul Collier, commenting on a Martin Wolf column about the food crisis in the FT. There’s this:
The best solution to a problem is often not...)
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| | Window Dressing, or the Real Deal? (My father flew with budget carrier Tiger Airways from Canberra to Melbourne yesterday, and had the exciting experience of having part of his window fall out....)
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| | UoC Economist (My colleagues up the road are looking for an economics lecturer. Details over the...)
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| | Strict deadlines and public humiliation (My co-author Bruce Chapman has substantial administrative responsibilities, which are invariably urgent, and therefore tend to crowd out research. Our...)
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| | Meat(t1) = (grain(t0))^3 (Lynne Kiesling
In a post about how reducing your meat consumption can help you manage food costs, Megan McArdle has the best quote I've seen thus far about the food...)
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| | TV technology, economics, and my rediscovered love of hockey (Lynne Kiesling
Long-time KP readers know that I am from Pittsburgh and I am a hockey fan. Newer readers may not realize that, because I...)
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| | Anything but freedom
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| | Shmacts
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| | Financial Flows and Regulation, by Arnold Kling (James Hamilton writes,
Now, there is nothing inherently wrong in making financial investments in the form of derivative contracts rather than outright...)
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| | Wintergreen (As I was growing up, we used to wander in these woods a lot. It was here I learned to identify wintergreen plants — we were able to eat...)
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| | The Time is Ripe for Means-Testing (Mauritius has relatively low levels of absolute and relative poverty: less than 1% of the population lives with less than $2 a day and around 8% of the population...)
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| | Technology moves us forward and should be recognized (Back at the beginning of January I changed cars, and now drive a Camry Hybrid. It came with the usual displays for mpg, where the power was...)
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| | DrumBeat: May 17, 2008 (Australia: Drivers face fuel ration shock
FUEL rationing may be one in a series of shocks facing drivers and commuters in Queensland.
Looming oil shortages would produce the...)
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| | Gas Tax Holiday Comcs
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| | Farm Bill Debacle Update: Denver Post and Sen. Salazar Don't Understand Adjusted Gross Income (Tax Prof Blog writes of the ignorance of the Denver Post and Colorado Senator Ken Salazar regarding the...)
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| | NTA Spring Symposium (The National Tax Symposium has concluded its two-day Annual Spring Symposium and State-Local Tax Program in Washington, D.C. Tax Prof speakers included: James R. Hines Jr....)
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| | Who's feeling the stress? (Have you ever had one for those days? Your charting software didn't work just right, your Internet connection was doggedly slow, and you forgot to read up on this week's...)
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| | Pick of the Day: GBP/USD - Trade Closed (We held our short position over the weekend, and it looks like we came close to our second profit target, but as the European trading session open, Cable caught...)
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| | Tuesday links: Sprint Extel? (Is it too soon to start calling the company, Sprint Extel (S)? (WSJ.com)
A hedge fund fight over Sears Holdings (SHLD). (ChicagoTribune.com, Market Movers)
Google...)
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| | Buybacks seem to deter takeovers. (Newswise Business News | Researcher Finds Good Management, Open Market Stock Buy-backs Deter Takeover Attempts: "Firms that buy their stock back on the open market...)
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| | Your overconfidence is your weakness (Apparently everything is doing just swimmingly. So much so that the Fed is going to hike rates later this year. Check out Fed Fund implied rates for the October...)
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| | Long Cable (Buy GBP/USD at market (9559)Stop Loss= 9429Target=...)
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| | Close Cable trade (Short Cable TradeExit at 9554Result: -45...)
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| | Hanson on Bounties (Robin beats me to a story on bounties in the Washington Post. I couldn't have said it better so here is his full post. A Post article today, Bounties a Bust in Hunt for Al-Qaeda:...)
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| | Markets in everything, Japan edition (Mobs are legal entities here. Their fan magazines and comic books are sold in convenience stores, and bosses socialize with prime ministers and politicians. Here...)
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| | No, this is neither Bryan Caplan nor Robin Hanson (It's Sir Thomas Browne, one of my favorite writers I might add, circa 1672: Again, Their individual imperfections being great, they are moreover...)
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| | A Sorry Tale of A Second Lien Security
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| | Confessions of a Short Seller (Nice Interview with my pal Doug Kass, the "anti-Cramer" in this week's Barron's, called " Confessions of a Short Seller." Doug runs a short only fund, Seabreeze...)
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| | Forbes Reporting on the Financial Meltdown Scenario (The idea that I presented in a recent article that we face the risk of a "financial meltdown" is becoming more mainstream. Today Munchau...)
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| | Samwick Media Watch (I'll be on NPR's Marketplace this evening, putting in my 1% of a share of Bear Stearns stock on the goings-on in financial markets. The theme--is this fair and why should you...)
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| | Two Problems, One Mathematics (1 of 2) ("Besicovitch insists that I publish; the fact that I was able to forsee interesting mathematical results shows that there must be be something in the theory."...)
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| | J. S. Mill on Method (1.0 IntroductionJohn Stuart Mill wrote an essay on the methodology of economics or rather, in the language of his day, Political Economy. I look at it in a Whiggish fashion to...)
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| | Good Resource on Derivatives (I recently came across this site called Global Derivatives. They've got some resources that students (and faculty) might find useful: a number of excellent spreadsheet...)
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| | Studies Show That 87% of All Statistics Are Made up On the Spot (Once again, Scott Adams nails it.
...)
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| | Exam Blogging (I'm in the midst of giving my Advanced Corporate Finance class their final. Since it's open-book/ open-notes, monitoring costs are almost zero (I just have to check for occasional...)
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| | Stock Tickers Bleg (I'm working on a project with my students, and need a list of the tickers of ALL publicly traded stocks. Does anyone out there have such a list (or know who does)?
...)
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| | The UCLA Fly-Out (So I'm a day late in posting. Apologies. I've been working on my senior thesis and the ball has finally gotten rolling. I guess that is another post though. On to UCLA:I left...)
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| | Best blog comment of the year? (…comes from Paul Collier, commenting on a Martin Wolf column about the food crisis in the FT. There’s this:
The best solution to a problem is often not...)
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| | Window Dressing, or the Real Deal? (My father flew with budget carrier Tiger Airways from Canberra to Melbourne yesterday, and had the exciting experience of having part of his window fall out....)
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| | UoC Economist (My colleagues up the road are looking for an economics lecturer. Details over the...)
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| | Strict deadlines and public humiliation (My co-author Bruce Chapman has substantial administrative responsibilities, which are invariably urgent, and therefore tend to crowd out research. Our...)
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| | Meat(t1) = (grain(t0))^3 (Lynne Kiesling
In a post about how reducing your meat consumption can help you manage food costs, Megan McArdle has the best quote I've seen thus far about the food...)
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| | TV technology, economics, and my rediscovered love of hockey (Lynne Kiesling
Long-time KP readers know that I am from Pittsburgh and I am a hockey fan. Newer readers may not realize that, because I...)
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| | Business Spectator Column
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| | Anything but freedom
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| | Shmacts
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| | Financial Flows and Regulation, by Arnold Kling (James Hamilton writes,
Now, there is nothing inherently wrong in making financial investments in the form of derivative contracts rather than outright...)
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| | One Reason I'm Not Completely Disenchanted with George W. Bush (Despite his protectionism, despite his fiscal profligacy, despite his over-reliance on Cheney et al. and the lack of WMD in Iraq, I like...)
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| | Wintergreen (As I was growing up, we used to wander in these woods a lot. It was here I learned to identify wintergreen plants — we were able to eat...)
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| | Immigration (By far the greatest feature of the Budget '08 is the large increase in skilled migration. If there are skill shortages, this is the best way to overcome them. Moreover, it will add to the...)
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| | Microsoft Classic (If you have Microsoft Office for the Mac 2008, there is a new service pack update available. In classic form, install it and you quickly get an instruction like this. In other...)
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| | The Time is Ripe for Means-Testing (Mauritius has relatively low levels of absolute and relative poverty: less than 1% of the population lives with less than $2 a day and around 8% of the population...)
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| | Inflation Hysteria
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| | Gas Tax Holiday Comcs
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| | Blogging as a Feminist Legal Method (From a University of Pennsylvania Law School press release: Alison I. Stein, a student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, ... will present her paper ?...)
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| | The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America (Bryan D. Jones (University of Washington, Center for American Politics and Public Policy) & Walter Williams (George Mason...)
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| | Who's feeling the stress? (Have you ever had one for those days? Your charting software didn't work just right, your Internet connection was doggedly slow, and you forgot to read up on this week's...)
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| | Pick of the Day: GBP/USD - Trade Closed (We held our short position over the weekend, and it looks like we came close to our second profit target, but as the European trading session open, Cable caught...)
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| | Tuesday links: Sprint Extel? (Is it too soon to start calling the company, Sprint Extel (S)? (WSJ.com)
A hedge fund fight over Sears Holdings (SHLD). (ChicagoTribune.com, Market Movers)
Google...)
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| | Buybacks seem to deter takeovers. (Newswise Business News | Researcher Finds Good Management, Open Market Stock Buy-backs Deter Takeover Attempts: "Firms that buy their stock back on the open market...)
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| | "Obama and Keynesianism" (The people who believe tax cuts pay for themselves continue to prove they don't really understand economics: Obama and Keynesianism, by donpedro: In my periodic Googlings for...)
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| | "Reflections on Stolper and Schumpeter" (Michael Perelman recalls his time as a student of Wolfgang Stolper: Two Degrees of Separation: Reflections on Stolper and Schumpeter, by Michael Perelman : A...)
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| | links for 2008-05-17 (Can one 'pin down' electrons? - EurekAlert Fed and Bubbles: First, Heal Thyself? - Real Time Economics U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan - New York Times Common Wealth...)
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| | Long Cable (Buy GBP/USD at market (9559)Stop Loss= 9429Target=...)
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| | Close Cable trade (Short Cable TradeExit at 9554Result: -45...)
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