I thought it would be piece of cake, but I only had 23 (out of 27) correct (though two mistakes had to do strictly with American English vs. → Read more
Category: fun
Econlinks for the weekend
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NYU Stern business school economists on the crisis, pinning down the real causes much to the same factors as Caballero did (1st bullet point). The book they advertise will certainly be widely read.
Unza Unza Time!
No matter what fans of the old Zabranjeno Pušenje think of their rather recent facelift, i.e. the Kusturica & No Smoking Orchestra, I simply love their music (inter alia, they created the soundtrack for “Crna macka, beli macor”, one of my all time favourite movies). → Read more
A Blog Stimulus
And since everybody’s concerned about the fiscal stimulus & co…, here’s the likely-to-be-best proposal in that realm (via MR). And here’s an absolutely great quote from it, to memorize over the weekend and save for future reference:
With sufficient momentum we can make sure the stimulus is not wasted on filling in freshly dug holes, fixing the environment or building bridges to nowhere – all things that the market is perfectly capable of doing by itself.
→ Read more On cats
→ Read morewhile talking about animals seems easy, a thorough analysis on cats is a nightmare. let us see the dogs. stereotypes about dogs are more clear-cut: common sense conceptualize them as long standing markers of faithfullness, accuracy, and addiction to well known spaces.