Wine Spectator’s best wine for 2008 is a Chilean wine produced from a blend of Carmenère, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon; see also the video commentary by Wine Spectator’s Senior Editor James Molesworth. → Read more
My whereabouts in the next few days
Time for tea, research & more… → Read more
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics ONLINE
…highly recommended for anybody interested in Economics, with or without much formal background in this science.
Start, for instance, with an excellent short exposition of “the Economics of Communism“, by Bryan Caplan (recall him as the author of this book you should in no way miss).
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“First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go“: a historical perspective on the market, starting with the Great Crash
Subprime primer in 45 slides
Somehow I missed this post of Greg Mankiw from a few months ago, though it is indeed way too good (reminder via one of Mankiw’s recent posts, where the focus is on the financial crisis made clear for kids).
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