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Category: USA

Recession-proof lunching in Sausalito

Recession-proof lunching in Sausalito

Some cafes and restaurants around the San Francisco Bay area are quite innovative in terms of marketing, adapting swiftly to any new trends.
Although in the end I opted for an old-fashioned “Sausalito burger”, rather than their en vogue “Recession proof” lunch.
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Author Sebi BuhaiPosted on January 4, 2009September 26, 2014Categories economics, fun, USA

Happy New Year

From San Francisco.

My whereabouts at the beginning of the year will be at the ASSA ’09, presenting a paper on the 5th of Jan.
But plenty of wine before that, continuing from the Napa Valley wine tasting yesterday :-).
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Author Sebi BuhaiPosted on December 31, 2008September 26, 2014Categories economics, life, USA

Chapter 11 for Detroit’s automakers

Best sentence I’ve read today:

If Chapter 11 cannot save GM, then nothing can.

This is from the recent VoxEU opinion by Joshua Rauh and Luigi Zingales, proposing a bankruptcy to save General Motors.
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Author Sebi BuhaiPosted on November 19, 2008September 26, 2014Categories economics, legislation, quote, USA

Econlinks (& more)

  • Greg Mankiw’s memo to the President-Elect; there is a chance Obama might actually listen, given how fast Mankiw’s comment changed things here :-).
  • The secret pleasures of Dr. Doom: and you still wonder why Roubini has so many fans among the young economists?!
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Author Sebi BuhaiPosted on November 19, 2008September 26, 2014Categories blog, economics, fun, Mankiw, Transylvania, USA

Business syphilis after credit orgy

… or just Stephen Colbert and his Formidable Opponent getting drunk on Dr. Pepper … “It was a steaming pile of hot slapping assets“, indeed :-).

This and Jon Stewart’s Loan interview with Paulson and Bernanke are the best depictions of the ‘financial mess & bailout’ so far :-).

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Author Sebi BuhaiPosted on October 7, 2008September 26, 2014Categories Colbert, economics, fun, quote, USA

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