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March 15, 2010

    
pippinainteasy


  Long Cable

    
pippinainteasy


  Close Cable trade

    
marginalrevolution


  One of the best ways to help Haiti: modify FCPA (Pass a law stating that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act does not apply to dealings in Haiti. As it stands right now, U.S. businesses are unwilling to...)

    
marginalrevolution


  Where should you wish to visit in a hurry? (Here is the reader request: A friend remarked that on his trip to Cuba, the inclusion of modern buses imported from China had started to erode the charm of...)

    
marginalrevolution


  What I've been reading (1. Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, by Dubravka Ugresic. These interrelated stories, which concern the aging of women, are so far my favorite fiction of the year. This was from a Bookslut...)

    
calculatedrisk


  Industrial Production, Capacity Utilization increase slightly in February

    
calculatedrisk


  Krugman: "Time to take a stand" on China Currency Manipulation

    
bigpicture


  NY mfr?g survey about in line but components strong (The Mar NY mfr’g survey, the first Mar industrial # out, was a touch above expectations at 22.9 vs the forecast of 22 and down from 24.9 in...)

    
bigpicture


  Back off! (Chinese Premier Wen in no uncertain terms has told the US that they will not be pressured into revaluing the yuan and when the moment does come, it will be under China’s terms. He said...)

    
bigpicture


  Where is the White House on Financial Regulatory Reform? (Why is the White House allowing soon to be retired Senator Dodd to drive the entire financial reform discussion? The Consumer Protection...)

    
bigpicture


  Michael Lewis on 60 Minutes (Be sure to see the 60 Minutes piece with Michael Lewis, discussing his new book “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.” Fascinating stuff . . . Video...)

    
bigpicture


  60 Minutes: Michael Lewis? The Big Short (Michael Lewis’ new book “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” looks at the financial meltdown. Part I Watch CBS News Videos...)

    
bigpicture


  The Week Ahead (Outlook: The Week Ahead in U.S. News MarketWatch’s Stacey Delo has a preview of what will figure into the business and financial headlines in the coming week. ~~~ Asia’s...)

    
voxbaby


  Samwick Media Watch

    
financialrounds


  Market Meltdown Game (We're getting close to the point where I cover the credit crisis in class, and it's also almost time for March Madness (even if my UCONN Huskies have soiled the matress to the...)

    
econhopeful


  The UCLA Fly-Out

    
benmuse


  Daniel Libby visits King Island, 1867 (Construction of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable pushed the limits of 19th Century technology. In the 1860s construction was begun on an alternative telegraph...)

    
benmuse


  King Island and the Russian Fur Traders, 1822 (When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central...)

    
rcf


  New look, new URL

    
econlog


  How Management Practices Differ Across Firms and Countries, by Bryan Caplan (I recommend Bloom and van Reenen's 2010 JEP piece on "Why Do Management Practices Differ Across Firms and...)

    
economics-au


  Lara Bingle and the cost of privacy (My colleagues at the Law School have just written an interesting analysis of the Lara Bingle nude photo case. They think she doesn’t have a strong legal case...)

    
cafehayek


  Washington Knows Best (Here’s a letter that I sent to the New York Times: While applauding government-imposed national standards for schooling, you give no credence to the argument that each set...)

    
globaleconomicanalysis


  The $2 Trillion Public Pension Hole and What You Can Do About It (The cover story of Barron's is on public pensions, an issue I have been railing about for years, and heatedly so for several months....)

    
globaleconomicanalysis


  For Profit Schools Turn Students Into Debt Zombies; It's Time To Kill The Entire Pell Grant Program (If president Obama gets his way, still more money, up to $50 billion, will be thrown at the failed...)

    
globaleconomicanalysis


  Obama's Backbone Like Over-Cooked Spaghetti; So Where Are The Fiscal Conservatives? (Please consider 4 visualizations of Obama's Budget Cuts.$17 Billion Cuts In ContextObama Budget Cuts...)

    
globaleconomicanalysis


  Sunday Funnies 2010-03-14: Lighter Side of the News - Something From Nothing (Today, in lieu of a cartoon today, let's take a look at an article that belongs in The Onion, or the back page of the...)

    
tickmarks


  Building Physical Stamina for the CPA Exam

    
taxprof


  TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup (Saturday: TIGTA Is Investigating 70 Jokes/Inappropriate Statements About the Attack on the Austin IRS Office Amar & Johnson: U.S. News Should Include Diversity in its Law...)

    
taxprof


  MIT Announced Its Admissions Decisions Today (3.14) at 1:59 -- 3.14159 (MIT released its undergraduate admission decisions today at 1:59 p.m. -- 3.14159! From Pi Day: Pi, Greek letter ( ), is the...)

    
babypipspippinainteasy


  Daily Chart Art - March 15, 2010 (Good day Forex Friends! Welcome to another edition of our European special! Today, we give you the EURUSD, GBPUSD, and...)

    
themessthatgreenspanmade


  ECONned

    
economistsview


  Paul Krugman: Taking on China (Paul Krugman says it's time to take a stand against China's currency policy: Taking on China, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: Tensions are rising over Chinese...)

    
economistsview


  Shiller: A Crisis of Understanding (Robert Shiller: A Crisis of Understanding, by Robert J. Shiller, Commentary, Project Syndicate: Few economists predicted the current economic crisis, and there is...)

    
lobg2


  Charles Nenner says long term cycle bottoms soon.

    
lobg2


  When good (lefty) papers go bad.

    
pippinainteasy


  Long Cable

    
pippinainteasy


  Close Cable trade

    
marginalrevolution


  The strangest sentence John de Palma read yesterday ("(...)Tourists at the Koorana Saltwater Crocodile Farm in Coowonga, Queensland, Australia, including 62 males and 41 females, aged 18?66 (M = 34.2,...)

    
calculatedrisk


  Housing Market Index, Housing Starts, Snow and Spec Homes

    
calculatedrisk


  Economic Outlook: Review of Possible Upside Surprises to Forecast

    
bigpicture


  Cycles, ETFs and Mean Reversion (Roger Nusbaum is the Chief Investment Officer of Your Source Financial, a Phoenix based financial planning firm. Roger also writes about portfolio construction and...)

    
bigpicture


  Lehman News Round Up (?Dick Fuld is going to be bankrupted and he?s going to spend the rest of his life in court fighting legal battles. There maybe others forced to do the same.? -Dick Bove of...)


March 14, 2010

    
voxbaby


  Samwick Media Watch

    
econhopeful


  The UCLA Fly-Out

    
benmuse


  Daniel Libby visits King Island, 1867 (Construction of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable pushed the limits of 19th Century technology. In the 1860s construction was begun on an alternative telegraph...)

    
benmuse


  King Island and the Russian Fur Traders, 1822 (When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central...)

    
andrewleigh


  A Capital Challenge (Watching the attempts of the red-shirts to change the Thai government by bringing Bangkok to a standstill, I was reminded of the observation that Alberto Alesina and Ed Glaeser...)

    
rcf


  Gap police

    
rcf


  Whodunit?

    
rcf


  Moral progress?

    
rcf


  This time is different?

    
rcf


  28th Amendment

    
rcf


  "Jobs, jobs, jobs"

    
rcf


  Use it or lose it

    
rcf


  Let more of them in!

    
rcf


  Three in one morning

    
rcf


  How did he know?

    
rcf


  Crazy?

    
rcf


  Rise and fall

    
rcf


  Yikes!

    
rcf


  New frontiers for twelve-step programs?

    
rcf


  News flash: NY Times editorial writer on the side of the angels

    
rcf


  I love LA

    
rcf


  What evidence?

    
rcf


  Matches

    
rcf


  What do they know?

    
rcf


  Campus speech

    
rcf


  About those EV1 charging stations

    
rcf


  Do it in public

    
rcf


  Transit-oriented development?

    
rcf


  Economic thinking via YouTube

    
rcf


  Shoes dropping

    
federalist


  ?Seniors Living on Fixed Incomes? (“Senior citizens living on fixed incomes” is a common refrain of the powerful pensioners’ special interest groups, and it seems to never go...)

    
divisionoflabour


  On Behavioral Economics, Ancient Refrigerators, and Landlord Incentives (In a WSJ article (gated) discussing the influence of behavioral economics on the Obama Adminstration's policies, Johnathan...)

    
divisionoflabour


  Emergent Order Sighting (From the WSJ (gated): Hairdresser Yasmine Beaupin has found a new calling in the wake of the earthquake that ravaged this city: running the affairs of a teeming tent city. The...)

    
economics-au


  A Capital Challenge (Watching the attempts of the red-shirts to change the Thai government by bringing Bangkok to a standstill, I was reminded of the observation that Alberto Alesina and Ed Glaeser...)

    
theoildrum


  Drumbeat: March 14, 2010 (Gasoline refining lacks its spark, for now NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- While the cost of crude has risen in the past year much faster than the price of gasoline at the pump, Big...)

    
tickmarks


  Building Physical Stamina for the CPA Exam

    
taxfoundation


  Tax Foundation Deficit Report Cited on CNN (Amity Shlaes, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former Wall Street Journal editorial board member, cited a Tax Foundation report on...)

    
taxprof


  Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads (There is a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new #1 paper (which I highly recommend) and a paper returning to the list at...)

    
taxprof


  A Colorful Anti-Lawyer (and Anti-Law Professor) Rant (Here is a colorful rant against lawyers and law professors over the Wall Street Journal's suggestion that Harry Markopolos, who has written a...)

    
abnormalreturns


  Sunday links: retail resurgence (Junk stocks continue to lead this rally.  (Chart.ly Blog) The state of equity market sentiment at week-end.  (Trader’s Narrative, The Technical Take) The online...)

    
themessthatgreenspanmade


  The New Road to Serfdom - Part 63

    
economistsview


  "US Sprawl is not a Market Outcome" (I think John Stossel should be ignored when it comes to economics, he either doesn't know what he is talking about or he is willing to mislead people. For example,...)

    
lobg2


  Charles Nenner says long term cycle bottoms soon.

    
lobg2


  When good (lefty) papers go bad.

    
seekingalpha


  Riding Red Back Mining for Growth (Personally, I'm not a big fan of investing in Africa in general. But following Red Back Mining (RBIFF.PK) leads me to believe that the future for gold miners in...)

    
pippinainteasy


  Long Cable

    
pippinainteasy


  Close Cable trade

    
marginalrevolution


  A daylight savings time confession (Had the idea of a government plan to shift the clocks back and forth twice and year been proposed today I am reasonably certain that I would have been against it. I...)

    
marginalrevolution


  The economics of managed care (Here is my latest NYT column and these are some relevant excerpts: Conceived in its broadest form, managed care can be run by the government, as in Britain, or left in...)

    
marginalrevolution


  The Economics of Sainthood (Barro, McCleary and McQuoid have a new paper, The Economics of Sainthood (a preliminary investigation) Saint-making has been a major activity of the Catholic Church for...)

    
marginalrevolution


  Assorted links (1. How much did the Irish government subsidize housing? 2. Service discrimination by race? (Warning: Daily Mail story) 3. If taxes hurt less, would they be higher? 4. Africa's gift to...)

    
econbrowser


  The challenges ahead for world oil (University of Leeds Professor Joyce Dargay and New York University Professor Dermot Gately have a new research paper suggesting that projections from the DOE, IEA,...)

    
calculatedrisk


  Weekly Summary and a Look Ahead

    
calculatedrisk


  Senator Dodd's Financial Overhaul Bill to be introduced Monday

    
bigpicture


  Your Mind and Your Money (There is an interesting PBS series titled “Your Mind and Your Money,” with an extensive section on Behavioral Finance. There is a full run of video discussions...)

    
bigpicture


  Words from the Investment Wise 3.14.10 (Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (March 8?14, 2010) Shrugging off some lingering reminders of the credit crisis and recession, investors...)

    
bigpicture


  Its ALWAYS a Good Time to Buy a House! (I spoke with Damon Darlin of the NYT last week about housing and RE agents. He recalled the ?It’s a great time to buy or sell a home? nonsense spouted by...)

    
voxbaby


  Samwick Media Watch

    
econhopeful


  The UCLA Fly-Out

    
benmuse


  Daniel Libby visits King Island, 1867 (Construction of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable pushed the limits of 19th Century technology. In the 1860s construction was begun on an alternative telegraph...)

    
benmuse


  King Island and the Russian Fur Traders, 1822 (When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central...)

    
econlog


  A Betting Arena, by Arnold Kling (Since Bryan is impressed with people who bet on their ideas, I thought I would remind folks about longbets, a site that encourages exactly that, focused on long-term...)

    
econlog


  Tyler Cowen on the Future of Health Policy, by Arnold Kling (He sees a future of managed care, funded or subsidized by vouchers. He elaborates here. Few people would think that a ne'er do well...)

    
econlog


  Haidt's Bet, by Bryan Caplan (I'm impressed to learn that Haidt backed up his Five Foundations theory with his own cash.  The offer expired on August 1, 2009, but it ran for two years:IF ANYONE...)

    
theoildrum


  Tech Talk: Producing oil shale by burning it in place (This is part of the continuing series that I have been writing about oil shale. And, while I just digressed in talking about using nuclear...)

    
globaleconomicanalysis


  Obama's $3 Trillion Tax Increase; IRS To Track PayPal Transactions; Toledo Ohio Fiscal Emergency; Obama's Utopian Education Goals (Here are a few stories this past week that caught my eye that I have...)

    
tickmarks


  Building Physical Stamina for the CPA Exam

    
taxprof


  Two IRS Agents Demand Past-Due Taxes From Car Wash Owner: 4 Cents (Plus $202.31 Interest and Penalties) (Sacramento Bee, IRS Visits Sacramento Carwash in Pursuit of 4 Cents: It was every...)

    
taxprof


  States May Delay Tax Refunds (Several states (Alabama, Hawaii, Kansas, New York, North Carolina) are considering delaying tax refund checks because of state budget shortfalls. ABC News, Check's in the...)

    
economistsview


  links for 2010-03-13 (Nearing Retirement and Unemployed or Underemployed - Calculated Risk For-Profit Schools Cashing In on Recession and Federal Aid - NYT Shipping out the best beer: Why export prices...)

    
economistsview


  "Managed Care: Get Used to It" (HTML clipboard Tyler Cowen says the role of managed care "is certain to grow," and that private sector based managed care, what he calls "competitive, choice-based...)

    
lobg2


  Charles Nenner says long term cycle bottoms soon.

    
lobg2


  When good (lefty) papers go bad.

    
seekingalpha


  Will Chinese Inflation Hike Oil and Gold Prices? (Peter Cooper submits: The Middle East could be enjoying another oil price boom much sooner than expected as Chinese inflation gathers pace after one...)

    
seekingalpha


  Global, Tier 1 Mining Companies (David Hunkar submits: In this post, let me list some of the Tier 1 gold miners and a few copper miners. But before we get into the list, here are some interesting facts...)

    
pippinainteasy


  Long Cable

    
pippinainteasy


  Close Cable trade

    
marginalrevolution


  Markets in everything (Jonathan Keats -- a San Francisco-based experimental philosopher who has, over the years, sold real estate in the extra dimensions of space-time proposed by string theory (he...)

    
marginalrevolution


  Assorted links (1. What if companies could run for political office? 2. Barkley Rosser sends in his referee report on the new Peter Chang restaurant. 3. Excellent post on Greece, politics, history, and...)

    
calculatedrisk


  Chinese Premier: Currency not undervalued, warns of "Double Dip" Recession

    
calculatedrisk


  Saturday Night Greece

    
calculatedrisk


  Unofficial Problem Bank List at 640

    
calculatedrisk


  Nearing Retirement and Unemployed or Underemployed

    
calculatedrisk


  IMF Official: World's Regulatory Supervision Shockingly Inadequate

    
bigpicture


  The Forthcoming Financial Reform (March 13, 2010 We are about to enter the great debate on financial reform. Unlike other stymied political initiatives, this one is likely to pass. The final form is...)