February 2012
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Discussion on Free Trade →
November 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
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Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein... →
davidcarlton:
Doing real science while gaming - awesome!
June 2010
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April 2010
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March 2010
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February 2010
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“To what extent are we just little lemmings that they just throw down a track and...”
– Luger Seriously Hurt in Crash, NY Times
January 2010
3 posts
If Fed Missed This Bubble, Will It See a New One? →
In 2004, Alan Greenspan, then the chairman, said the rise in home values was “not enough in our judgment to raise major concerns.” In 2005, Mr. Bernanke — then a Bush administration official — said a housing bubble was “a pretty unlikely possibility.” As late as May 2007, he said that Fed officials “do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy.”
December 2009
2 posts
Claims of Insider Trading From Trader’s Ex-Wife →
In Ms. Cohen’s version of events, her husband and his brother, Donald Cohen, orchestrated a long-running racketeering scheme. She says her former husband lied under oath about his net worth, conducted mail and wire fraud, and concealed from her and the Supreme Court of New York millions of dollars that he possessed in 1990, thus reducing her divorce settlement.
Even in this post-Madoff era, the...
November 2009
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October 2009
7 posts
Getting tired of hacking up the phlegmatic remnants of the flu
““Don’t get me wrong: the guys from the lower third of the class who went to Wall...”
– Op Ed: Wall Street Smarts, New York Times
“The hard sciences are interpenetrating the social sciences. This isn’t...”
– The Young and the Neuro, The New York Times
Damn those Twitter bots! Is there any way to require approval of new followers?
September 2009
11 posts
“What do the following high-profile disasters have in common: World War I,...”
– arXiv blog, Technology Review
“Q: … I told my wife that she should feel happy by how fondly I view her,...”
– The Undercover Economist, Freakonomics Blog, NY Times
“What Have VCs Really Done for Innovation?”
– TechCrunch
“Minsky called his idea the “Financial Instability Hypothesis.” In the wake of a...”
– Why Capitalism Fails, The Boston Globe
“Part of the reason why U.S. banks are keeping these homes off the market is so...”
– Housing Bottom - Oh Really? Jeff Nielson, Seeking Alpha
Early Risers Crash Faster Than People Who Stay Up... →
triketora:
whatson:
psychotherapy:
Early birds may get the best worms—or at least the best garage sale deals—but they also tire out more quickly than night owls do. In a new study researchers Christina Schmidt and Philippe Peigneux, both at the University of Liège in Belgium, and their colleagues first asked 16 extreme early risers and 15 extreme night owls to spend a week following their...
“As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a...”
– How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Paul Krugman, New York Times
“If you are an economics-minded parent of young children, like me, then you may...”
– The Economics of Fairy Tales, Economix Blog, New York Times
August 2009
21 posts
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/opinion/27kristof... →
Warren Buffett warns about the federal deficit in... →
