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| | NorthPoint buyer quits deal - Other bidders eye 40-acre project site (Read link for details.
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| | Arizona?s in Recession- But We Knew That (Moody’s is saying what we’ve been saying for awhile- Arizona is in a recession: [Thanks L!]
The Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas, as...)
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| | The Almost Daily 2¢ - Depression Era Redux (In many ways the events surrounding the period just before and early on in the Great Depression seem to bear a striking similarity to what we have seen...)
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| | Pre-Market Gappers (Gapping up: PCLN +14.3%, GSIT +12.5%, RNWK +11.1%, INT +9.1%, DAR +8.8%, BSQR +7.2%, NAT +6.7%, QSFT +6.7%, POM +5.8%, DROOY +5.8%, LUNA +5.3%, TRLG +5.0%, GUID +4.6%, RICK +4.2%,...)
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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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| | What are the benefits of being full professor? (Dan Drezner, who just won the title (congratulations!), gives a list. Oddly he leaves off the most important (only?) benefit, namely that no one can tell...)
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| | The Man Who Loved China (That's the new Simon Winchester book and it concerns Joseph Needham, who wrote the famous series on the history of science in China and focused the attention of the scholarly...)
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| | Letter to the NEJM (The issue of off-label prescribing is heating up again. A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine by Randall Stafford made the case for greater regulation. I am...)
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| | Where do the kept women go? (Zubin Jelveh reports: If you're a married woman living in the New York City area, there's a better than 50 percent chance that you don't work, according to a recent...)
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| | I don't think you all understand how bad this is gonna get. Got train? Got bus? Got a high-MPG car? (And god forbid you got Maricopa Arizona, Naperville Illinois or any far-flung exurb.Thank you Ben...)
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| | George W. Bush is the greatest president in the history of the United States (I've changed my mind.All this time, I thought W. was an incompetent boob.But today - brilliance. Rock-solid genius.George...)
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| | Here's the slide from David Lereah's October 2005 NAR presentation, mocking the housing "Chicken Littles" who ended up being right ( I wish David Lereah could be jailed.I wish David Lereah could be...)
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| | Ten years from now, you bubble sitters, bitter renters, fringe nuts and HP looosers will still be watching this with a big ol' smile on your face (
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| | Economist.com on Rents and House Prices
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| | Quote of the Day: On a Great Danger Approaching (Today's quote is from a clever commenter in our W/H discussion last week: "With the enemy's approach to Moscow, the Moscovites' view of their...)
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| | Oil Bubble? (My friend Paul points to this report by Factset, titled: An oil bubble to rival the internet boom. The difficulty with the bubble moniker is determining exactly how much of the price is...)
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| | Housing Prices - acclerating price declines (Bank of America Chief Economist Mickey Levy analyzes this week's economic reports on housing prices, consumer confidence and wholesale prices. He predicts...)
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| | Home Values Continue to Slump (A random selection of quotes from economists. The pace of bad economic news is accelerating:
"Months of surging energy prices appear now to be trickling up the...)
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| | Jam-Packed Rally in Charleston
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| | Hillary Visits Sioux Falls
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| | HUBdate: Strongest at the Top of the Ticket
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| | South Carolina Superdelegate Endorses Obama; Delegate Countdown - 162 To Go (Today, Wilber Lee Jeffcoat, the Democratic Party Vice Chair in South Carolina and Democratic superdelegate endorsed Barack...)
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| | Barack's Economic Discussion in Beaverton, OR (Barack is campaigning in Oregon today, and this morning he held an economic discussion with workers in Beaverton. During his speech, Barack outlined some...)
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| | National Voter Registration Kickoff Tomorrow (Tomorrow is the official kickoff of Vote for Change, an unprecedented 50-state voter registration and mobilization drive. In over 100 cities across...)
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| | California Superdelegate Endorses Obama; Delegate Countdown - 163 To Go (Chicago, IL – Today, California DNC Member and superdelegate Ed Espinoza endorsed Barack Obama, citing his judgment,...)
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| | Americans with Disabilities for Obama (We just launched a new constituency site, Americans with Disabilities for Obama. Check out the inaugural blog post from Seth H. from New Jersey...For Americans...)
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| | ?The Revolution? is #1
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| | Monkey Pick of the Month - DCP
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| | Wow! Look at the Volume!
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| | Microsoft Internal Memo on Yahoo Offer
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| | Currency Markets
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| | Ewmew FUDd?
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| | What's Next for Iron Man?
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| | China's April Inflation Likely at 8.1%, Business Journal Says [del.icio.us]
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| | Buffett Plots Buying Spree as Crunch Diverts Bidders [del.icio.us]
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| | Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence [del.icio.us]
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| | Eleuthera Island, Bahamas [del.icio.us]
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| | Green Building: Are the Big Builders On Board? (Posted By:Diana OlickI get a press release probably once a week from the National Association of Home Builders on some or another green improvement,...)
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| | The repossession bubble ( Today, the Ministry of Justice provided further evidence of the unfolding housing market disaster. Repossessions in England and Wales are on the rise.The first quarter data...)
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| | Bernanke Bearish on Economy (Helicopter Ben seems more than a bit dour on the prospects for the economy:"The outlook for the economy has worsened in recent months, and the downside risks to growth...)
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| | Washington DC Goes Gaga For ABC's Money Honey (Bianna Golodryga is apparently Washington DC?s favorite ?money honey.? The former CNBC reporter moved over to ABC last year. But her appearance at the...)
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| | Layoffs Watch '08: JPMorgan (Mark Petrinovic, JPM's head of Latin American Credit, along with 4 MD's and 1 ED, are said to have been laid off yesterday. Supposedly the cuts were "quite unexpected...)
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| | We Regret To Inform You (As part of Morgan Stanley's new cost-cutting initiative, taxi reimbursement will not be provided until after 10...)
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| | Your Big Money Idea Of The Day (There's mucho dinero to be made in this mortgage meltdown situation, but instead of jumping in your time machine, traveling back to last summer and shorting subprime,...)
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| | Bear Employee Surprisingly Upset With Layoff Proceedings At Bear (I'm not exactly sure what we're supposed to do with this but a (soon to be?) former Bear employee just bcc'd us on this message to a...)
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| | Barbara Walters Has Done 80 Percent Of Wall Street's Living Dinosaurs (Barbara Walters' book came out this week and it's not just for those of you interested in a behind the scenes look at the catty...)
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| | Trade Tips For 6th May 08 (All of the following are trading tips for 6th May 2008 only.Short EntryBig Lots, Inc. (BIG) through its wholly owned subsidiaries is a national broadline closeout...)
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| | Take Profits On Bullish Option Trades - Consider Bearish Stock Options. (Yesterday, the market struggled all day to avoid a sell-off. By the close, it was able to inch its way back into positive...)
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| | Why China?s inflation is running out of control (China?s growth has also spurred a new trend: runaway inflation, along with soaring food and fuel prices. As China?s stock markets roared, the amount of...)
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| | A Trading Blow Up Unfolds (It’s a bit sad thing, and not for the delicate types, but if you’re a new trader you need to read through a post on High Probability Trading from yesterday.
To...)
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| | A REALLY Bad Time to Chase Momentum (The best illustration I can find to show how bad it's been of late for momentum-chasers is the IBD 100. The highest rated stocks in the 100 are supposed to be the...)
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| | Today?s tickers: NKE, BJ, FCX, IVN, CSCO, CROX, JAH, ENER, PSUN (NKE- “Swoosh” went the sound of short volatility this afternoon as option traders took advantage of a momentary blip higher...)
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| | Friday Thump? (Well, we’re getting our $125 oil pre-market.
It’s funny how we’re getting it as the Wall Street Journal runs a cover of good old fashioned yellow journalism, with...)
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| | Dark Pools Looking More Like the Kiddie Pool: Shallow and Smelly (2 interesting articles this week from WSJ and Reuters on the untamed and unaccountable dark pools in the market.What are dark pools?The...)
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| | Hot Stocks - Today's Active Movers
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| | Sparklines are pretty cool (I am thinking about making a wordpress plugin for a stock sparkline. So, for example, if you were writing about DTV...)
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| | links for 2008-05-07 (
blog.pmarca.com: In praise of dual-class stock structures for public companies
(tags: stocks Technology startup Finance economics)
Basic Motion Graphics with Python
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| | Candidates for 05/07/2008
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| | World?s Most Expensive Home (Fun Friday House Story
Step aside Mr. Oracle Ellison ($300M home), The Donald ($125M), Mr. Softy Gates ($100M), Sage from Omaha: Warren Buffet ($700k ?ha, the value of a...)
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| | Trulia commisions Harris to gauge consumer sentiment about purchasing a foreclosure (Harris Interactive ® recently conducted a comprehensive survey on our behalf showing that while more than half of...)
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| | Foreclosure fears at rest: Top tips from the experts (Most savvy house hunters today know that foreclosed homes are a growing portion of real estate available right now. In fact, consumers are...)
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| | Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS® partners with Trulia (We?re in a challenging, fast-paced online real estate world ? and few people recognize that better than the Realtor associations who work...)
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| | Thank You Fans! Trulia Wins 2008 People?s Voice Webby Award for Real Estate (
Thanks to our fans, Trulia has won the prestigious 2008 People’s Voice Webby Award.
The Webby Awards is the...)
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| | We?re at it again at Trulia! (
With continuing strides towards being the best company to work for in the entire world, our focus on BOFFI is highlighted by our 2nd quarterly installment of ?mind body...)
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| | Trulia Voices | Top 10 Questions of the Week (
This week, the top thread on Trulia Voices has lots of unique points of view about low-balling offers. In many local markets around the nation, homes are...)
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| | New Trulia Home Roll Widget ? Now with Images! (
We?ve been working on a new version of our Home Roll widget and I?m happy to announce that it?s now available for everyone to use! It’s a...)
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| | Search Engines, Trulia and Googlygook (
Search engines are where most people start their web search and being ranked highly in search engines is a big deal. For any website, it is important to be...)
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| | Real Estate Power Brats - Meet the Home Buyers of Tomorrow (
Adapted from Radar via Babyrazzi | Suri Cruise + Maddox Pitt-Jolie
Today’s brats youth will one day become your future home buyer...)
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| | The House is Permeated by Unspeakable Evil: Video of the Week #21 ( Apparently real estate in Britain isn’t a whole lot different than real estate here…
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| | Watchlist for May 9, 2008 (It’s looking like a rough end of the week for the bulls thanks to AIG, FNM and surging oil. Those who got caught in yesterday’s choppy session may want to read...)
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| | Watchlist for May 9, 2008 (It’s looking like a rough end of the week for the bulls thanks to AIG, FNM and surging oil. Those who got caught in yesterday’s choppy session may want to read...)
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| | NVDA Follow Up
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| | Watchlist for May 9, 2008 (It’s looking like a rough end of the week for the bulls thanks to AIG, FNM and surging oil. Those who got caught in yesterday’s choppy session may want to read...)
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| | Watchlist for May 9, 2008 (It’s looking like a rough end of the week for the bulls thanks to AIG, FNM and surging oil. Those who got caught in yesterday’s choppy session may want to read...)
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| | El Paso Corportation (NYSE:EP) Rectangle Pattern Break
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| | January-March, 2008 Branchburg Closed Sales Stats (The following table contains closed residential real estate transactions in Branchburg for the first calendar quarter of 2008 (January 1 to March 31)....)
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| | Foreclosures everywhere! County reviewing 40,000 homes
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| | Foreclosures everywhere! County reviewing 40,000 homes
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| | [I?ll] BeatYouThere.com (A new real estate listing site called BeatYouThere.com launched yesterday (inman) and it’s adding a social twist. BeatYouThere users can search for other users (buyers,...)
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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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| | Two BloodhoundBlog Unchained warm-up events Friday in Phoenix (Flat out and miles to go before I sleep. I've told Cathy to make my excuses this way: Greg is wearing three hats, and none of them is a...)
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| | Unchained, unplugged and off the clock? (I can't think of any better way to make the real estate business rebound than having way too much other work to do. I've been writing Unchained content,...)
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| | The Lazy Man?s Way To Real Estate Investing (
American investors can thank an Australian investment vehicle for letting them invest in real estate the lazy way. Officially born in 1971 in the land down...)
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| | Myth Busted: Relationship Between ARM and Fixed-Rate Mortgages (There are a lot of mortgage myths that Americans confuse for truth. One of them is that adjustable-rate mortgages always carry lower...)
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| | MGIC Turns the Screws on MI Underwriting (MGIC Investment Corp. (MTG: 12.25, -2.47%) said late Thursday that it will pull back the reigns on its mortgage insurance underwriting standards for the second...)
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| | Citigroup Paring Back on Mortgages; Will Shed $500 Billion in Non-Core Assets (Citigroup Inc. (C: 23.9387, -1.49%) said Friday that it will reduce so-called non-core assets by $500 billion over the...)
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| | PHH Posts Q1 Profit, Sees Mortgage Production Losses Narrow (PHH Corp. (PHH: 19.59, +2.40%) said Friday that losses in its mortgage production business narrowed during the first quarter to $8 million,...)
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| | Litton Picks Up Rest of Fremont?s Servicing Portfolio; Bankruptcy May be Next (Late Thursday, Fremont General Corp. said that it had agreed to sell its remaining $12.2 billion servicing portfolio to...)
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| | JPMorgan?s Dimon: Credit Crunch Mostly Over (Reiterating a stance he took in the company’s recent earnings call, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM: 46.463, +0.90%) CEO Jamie Dimon told investors...)
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| | Mortgage REIT Insider: Earnings Hits, Misses (It?s the heat of mREIT earnings season — some folks sizzled, while others sagged. We?ve got the rundown for you in today?s column.
Don?t Call It a...)
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| | What A Stuck Housing Market Looks Like (It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger, “The most severe real estate recession in decades appears far from over, with the pace of...)
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| | George W. Bush is the greatest president in the history of the United States (I've changed my mind.All this time, I thought W. was an incompetent boob.But today - brilliance. Rock-solid genius.George...)
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| | Here's the slide from David Lereah's October 2005 NAR presentation, mocking the housing "Chicken Littles" who ended up being right ( I wish David Lereah could be jailed.I wish David Lereah could be...)
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| | Ten years from now, you bubble sitters, bitter renters, fringe nuts and HP looosers will still be watching this with a big ol' smile on your face (
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| | CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS? (WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve said Friday that it has voted to endorse an...)
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| | Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation). (The United States has entered a recession that could be "substantially more severe" than recent ones, former National Bureau of Economic Research...)
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| | Winner of US Open Tix
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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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| | 75 Skills Every Guy Should Master (Esquire just put up a great collections of things every guy should know. There's a lot of good stuff -- some of it pretty old-school, but still spot on. Here...)
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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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| | Gambling & government in Victoria (I?ve been too busy to follow the recent news on gambling contracts in Victoria in detail. But there is a smell around this issue that makes me suspicious.An Upper...)
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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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| | Listen to the Children, by Bryan Caplan (Here's a deeply important passage from my favorite survey of the time diary literature:One of Galinsky's more surprising findings centered around a question...)
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| | The Cynical Case for the Gas Tax Holiday: From EconLog to the NYT, by Bryan Caplan (I've finally made the Gray Lady: Today's New York Times features my op-ed inspired by Sunday's post, "I'll Shill...)
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| | The $.30 Question, by Bryan Caplan (Amazon has been charging $19.77 for my book for almost a year. But very recently, they cut the price to $19.47. Why $.30? Why now? Ideas?
P.S. If someone who...)
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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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| | Uh oh...
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| | The left eats its own?
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| | "Lessons from the Great Depression" (Updated) (I gave a speech last night to the Phi Beta Kappa Association of the Mid-South on "Lessons from the Great Depression" and promised my hosts that I would...)
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