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The 2012 Version of a Very Old Joke

{ Posted on Feb 06 2012 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Economics, humor, Macroeconomic Theory, RBC theory
With apologies to Stan Collender’s Beautiful and Talented Wife (not to mention mine):James had gathered a mix of friends, acquaintances, and random strangers at his Rent Party, but no one was talking to anyone else. So he decided to get ...Read More »

Wealth vs Income

{ Posted on Jan 27 2012 by Jazzbumpa }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Economics, income, jazzbumpa
Usually my articles present facts and data and try to drive down to a conclusion. This time, I'm going to drive down to a couple of questions. Recently, Noah Smith had a post on the subject of economic models titled Filling ...Read More »

A Finger Exercise for Dr. Black

{ Posted on Jan 06 2012 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Economics, infrastructure, sports
The good doctor quotes the Paper of Record:Garages near Yankee Stadium, built over the objections of Bronx neighbors appalled at losing parkland for yet more parking lots, turn out never to be more than 60 percent full, even on game ...Read More »

Top Tips for Investing in 2012

{ Posted on Jan 05 2012 by Rishi }
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Categories : All, Business Finance Marketing, Economics, Economy, Finance, Investing
There’s no doubt that 2012 is going to be an interesting year for the world’s economies, forex traders and investors. The two major issues from 2011 – the eurozone sovereign debt crisis and the slowdown in China – will no ...Read More »

Top Tips for Investing in 2012

{ Posted on Jan 05 2012 by Rishi }
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Categories : All, Business Finance Marketing, Economics, Economy, Finance, Investing
There’s no doubt that 2012 is going to be an interesting year for the world’s economies, forex traders and investors. The two major issues from 2011 – the eurozone sovereign debt crisis and the slowdown in China – will no ...Read More »

OWS and economics

{ Posted on Nov 30 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Economics, OWS, Uncategorized
Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her post in the NYT Economix begins: The Occupy Wall Street movement, displaced from some key geographic locations, now enjoys a small but significant encampment ...Read More »

America’s Love-Hate Relationship with Wealth

{ Posted on Nov 14 2011 by J.D. Roth }
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Categories : Advanced, All, Economics, Get Rich Slowly, News, Odds and Ends, Uncategorized
I was on the road for the past two months, first in Chicago, and then in Bolivia and Peru. As always happens, one of the side effects of travel is that I’ve been living in a media vacuum. For the ...Read More »

Dave Dayen Is Wrong

{ Posted on Oct 26 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Economics, Education, human capital, income inequality, OWS, Uncategorized
And not in a good way, when he says:I understand that Republicans are just playing the culture war game here, trying to link Warren and the loony left. I don’t know how that will play in, er, Massachusetts. And the ...Read More »

Presimetrics Review

{ Posted on Oct 22 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Book Reviews, Economics, Presimetrics, Research, Uncategorized
Noted for the record: author Piaw Na reviews Mike Kimel's Presimetrics at Piaw's Blog:This is a great book to read if you've got a statistical bent and are willing to follow the data rather than your pre-conceived notions....Many people like ...Read More »

Economists:Entrepreneurs::Blind Men:Interior Decorators

{ Posted on Oct 16 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Economics, Entrepreneurship, microeconomic theory, rational expectations, Uncategorized
As part of my continuing series of Analogies that Should Be on the SAT, this is what Famous Entrepreneurs do (h/t Brad DeLong):In the IBM PC era, Steve drove innovation forward with the Macintosh. This, like the Apple II, was ...Read More »
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