→ Read moreAs a protest vote, Ron Paul seems fine, but hearing him or reading about him just makes me depressed. A good rule of thumb is not to get too excited about any candidate whose actual election would make the Dow lose thousands of points.
Category: politics
Since Xmas is approaching…
…surely we don’t want to wait to hear our adorable President and Prime Minister (talking about Romanians here; warning for all other nations, get your own fools, these are ours!) wishing us all the blahblah, so, ahead of time, here they are.
→ Read more Econlinks for 13-12-’07
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An article by James Surowiecki on the subprime crisis and the “band-aid” Paulson (partial), J.P. Morgan-like, solution. This while Greenspan thinks the bubble should first break on its own (and certainly differs here from Martin Feldstein, who advocates for a fast, two-act intervention, see my previous post on that)
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Here’s a very interesting post of Andrew Gelman (based on this co-authored article of his) on whether the Democrats should move, as an electoral strategy, more to the left on the economic policy axis.
Econlinks for 06-12-’07
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very sad for this country’s people, but otherwise a very concrete first level econ lesson for everybody. One can only hope that any other government passes ‘introductory economics’ before experimenting with policies (samples of which, for the same country, were featuring on my blog a while ago as well)…
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female leaders and what comes and what doesn’t, with that (with further links to very interesting recent PDF articles within the text)
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from the ‘exotic entreneurship’ stories cycle, another example mentioned in Tyler Cowen’s very well written book, Discover Your Inner Economist (see also my previous example from there).
Econlinks for 18-10-’07
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On (speed) dating preferences (in USA): some old stereotypes reconfirmed but also some news. Here’s the full paper (Fisman et al, QJE 2006) on which the Slate article linked above is based.