tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-268627222009-02-21T03:56:09.507-05:00Sam.I.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15048236713688627243noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26862722.post-33436107852760168332009-01-27T14:19:00.003-05:002009-01-27T14:25:35.311-05:00

From Mark Zandi's report on economy.com.

Sam.I.amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15048236713688627243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26862722.post-39181787815460701892008-11-07T16:37:00.004-05:002008-11-07T18:33:53.700-05:00

Thank goodness for a voice of reason regarding Lawrence Summers.  Sheryl Sandburg, COO of Facebook, lays out his record on working for women's equality in education and the sciences while at Harvard and the World Bank, as well as family-friendly government policies while at the Treasury Department. I agree, his gaffe was bad, and completely inappropriate from the President of Harvard.  But put in

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Most economists shook their head at the laughable "stimulus check" last spring. Now, economists Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Solow are recommending Congress pass a stimulus package that will actually impact the economy. Some targets are intended to keep the economy functioning, while others are investments that will lead to real economic growth. 

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I'm pretty sure she's not talking to Jon Stewart for the last line.

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John McCain uses the phrase, "They put lipstick on it but it's still a pig."

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After Thursday's speech, I was pretty sure even McCain would want to vote for Obama.  Everything I learn about Sarah Palin seems to confirm that.  From The Edge of the West under the link "Vet Palin" (because John McCain didn't), we find that gubernatorial candidate Palin replied to a blogger's questionnaire in 2006, including to the question, "Will you support funding for

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Justin Wolfers asks if there is anything to add to Stigler's 1977 list of workshop criticisms. Questioning the quality of the instrument is the biggest one not already on the list.  After that, there is the "Why is this important?" or the even less subtle, "That's true, but not very interesting."  [Both noted in the comments.]

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Business Pundit has an entertaining slide show explaining the origins of the sub-prime mortgage crisis.

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Here's a better explanation of the political machinations going on with Sen. Clinton's gas tax holiday idea, with Clinton's plan being a response to McCain's ridiculous plan. (Posted by commenter CMike on Econospeak -- I'm not referring to the original post.)

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Dr. Violet Socks over at The Reclusive Leftist has an interesting rant about Obama. I can't agree with her conclusion to not ever vote for Obama, because McCain has promised more supreme court justices like Roberts and Alito (would that be Catholic men?). But the bit which rewrites the media's sexist treatment of Clinton in reverse, so that Obama receives the racist media treatment, highlights

AnnMnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26862722.post-53333613885940543322008-05-06T12:08:00.004-04:002008-05-07T17:25:07.353-04:00

I always was late handing in assignments, so of course I'm late with this meme. Here's the first five sentences from page 123 of the nearest book with more than 123 pages. (Taken from Red Queen and Chanson.) No tags, cause everybody's already done it, but feel free to leave a comment with yours, especially if you don't have a blog! "You can actually calculate the average bubble factor for

AnnMnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26862722.post-77621014954096110752008-05-06T11:39:00.006-04:002008-05-06T12:02:59.849-04:00

It always makes me happy when I make an argument to JSM, and the next morning I pull up the paper and find Paul Krugman has made the same argument. It lets me know my reasoning skills have not entirely deteriorated, when Krugman and I arrive at the same conclusion, particularly when it comes to taxes, health care, or some other economic issue.Of course sometimes it's just because we have the

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It's very annoying. Justin Wolfers replied to Freakonomics readers about the "likely economic consequences" of this year's tax rebates, but the papers he cites only discuss whether people spend the money, and if so, on what. There's a microeconomist for you. I suspect when most people ask about the economic consequences they really mean, "Tell me, really, is this actually going to cut short the

AnnMnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26862722.post-87044791264619999672008-04-29T18:01:00.004-04:002008-04-29T18:33:11.106-04:00

These links are for JSM, who has been too busy working to pay attention to political matters that matter to only half the population (i.e. the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act), and then made the mistake of trying to act like a on centrist on John McCain, (and I quote!) saying "He's not bad for a Republican. He doesn't toe the party line -- he's a maverick."Dahlia Lithwick provides an excellent

AnnMnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26862722.post-32888907850954089882008-04-28T10:25:00.004-04:002008-04-28T11:02:07.497-04:00

Shankar Vedantam has an excellent Department of Human Behavior column in the Washington Post today, comparing the Democratic primary to a tragedy of the commons. A quote from political scientist Edella Schlager summarizes: "Rational individuals are trapped. To act rationally, to pursue one's self-interest, leads to collective ruin. To act irrationally, to place the collective interest above

AnnMnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26862722.post-4571203966823138862008-04-26T12:17:00.002-04:002008-04-26T12:20:39.428-04:00

by the Stand-up EconomistThis is too funny not to post.

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There is an absolutely fascinating article in tomorrow's Washington Post, "Salary, Gender, and the Social Cost of Haggling." Linda Babcock, an economist at Carnegie Mellon University, became interested in how men and women negotiate differently when female graduate students came to her and pointed out that the male students were teaching their own courses while the female students were acting as

AnnMnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26862722.post-24925813937923593012007-04-26T22:29:00.000-04:002007-04-26T22:58:01.587-04:00

In 2003 U.S. Congress passed the so-called "Partial Birth Abortion Act," which banned a specific medical procedure used to end a late-term pregnancy in tragic situations, frequently when the fetus has a deformity that will result in its death before or at birth. This law did not include an exception for the health of the woman, only an exception if her life was at risk.The Supreme Court, packed

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In case it wasn't already clear, I'm taking a little hiatus from this so-called blog. I will be back, tanned and I hope refreshed, sometime in the second half of August. Probably closer to the end of August.My vacation reading list:Nancy Folbre's "The Invisible Heart"Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel"Katha Pollitt's "Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time"No,

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This week’s New York Times Magazine attempts to introduce real economic analysis into the immigration debate (available free until Sunday, email me after that). The article is a lovely introduction to the basic theory, however the main focus is the split between George Borjas of the Kennedy School and David Card of Berkeley, which is threatening to turn ugly.* It’s a reminder that personal

AnnMnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26862722.post-1152150764592832372006-07-05T21:48:00.000-04:002006-07-05T21:52:44.603-04:00

The three of us--JSM, me, and the littlest one--took a road trip this last weekend. As Bob Marley was singing on the ipod, “Get up, stand up; stand up for your rights,” I took a phone call. As I finished, JSM said, “Play it again, he’s singing.” So I played it again, and from the back we heard, “Get up, stand up. Stand up for your wife.”Apparently he doesn’t know his rights. (He just turned 3,

AnnMnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26862722.post-1152124094930781312006-07-05T14:20:00.000-04:002006-07-05T16:24:47.386-04:00

The cover of this week’s Economist features Bill Gates holding what appears to be a very healthy third-world child, with the headline, “Billanthropy.” The two articles inside discuss Warren Buffett’s decision to donate over $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, which roughly doubles the Gates Foundation endowment.Mr. Buffett followed his own investment advice in choosing to donate

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"Go-kart sittin' in the shade: you don't need a ticket to ride, it's summertime, summertime, slip down a water slide. Little kid dancin' in the grass, legs like a rubber band. It's summertime, summertime. There's a line at the candy stand."Paul Simon, Beautiful

AnnMnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26862722.post-1151545371959451942006-06-28T21:27:00.000-04:002006-06-28T21:42:51.980-04:00

I've started volunteering for the campaign of my district's Democratic candidate for Congress, Judy Feder.www.JudyFeder.comIt's cutting into my writing time, but I'm thrilled to be working for such a great candidate.http://www.judyfeder.com/MeetJudy

AnnMnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26862722.post-1151093660836830632006-06-23T16:01:00.000-04:002006-06-23T16:54:07.346-04:00

In light of the following facts:I love blogging, because I get to write about whatever I feel like on any particular day, and one to two pages single-spaced is just about the span of my attention;I may be a new writer, but I am an expert avoider, and the blog is the perfect avoidance alternative to writing for publication;As useful as my practice writing blog is in providing practice writing, it

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