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Debt Limit: Routine or the End of the World?

Posted in Budget, Politics, tagged , , , on May 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »

ht: Bruce Bartlett

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Chain, Chain, Chain, Chain CPI

Posted in Budget, Macroeconomics, tagged , , , , , , on May 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Over at the Moment of Truth project (a continuation of the president’s fiscal commission), Adam Rosenberg and Marc Goldwein make a compelling case that the government should use a different inflation measure when calculating cost of living increases and indexing the tax code: Maintaining purchasing power in spending programs and indexing various parts of the tax code [...]

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Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two

Posted in Macroeconomics, tagged , on April 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »

And here’s Round One, the Keynes vs. Hayek Rap.

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A $5,000 Bill on the Sidewalk

Posted in Microeconomics, Politics, tagged , on April 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Someone is offering a free $5,000 bill tonight over at Intrade.com: That’s right. You can sell 9,999 shares of The Donald (not me, the other one) at $0.52 a piece. In just that one trade, you can pocket almost $5,200 of free money. Unless, of course, you believe that Donald Trump could actually be elected [...]

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Dilbert Explores the Limits of Bargaining

Posted in Life, tagged on March 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »

P.S. Yes, I will return to posting words, not just comics, in the near future. Unless, of course, someone would like to pay me not to …

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Mathematically Annoying Advertising

Posted in Life, tagged on March 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »

My favorite online cartoonist is xkcd, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Today’s entry reveals xkcd’s inner economist: All of these drive me nuts.

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Feelin’ Lousy

Posted in Economy, tagged on March 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

PBS took this video down due to copyright restrictions. Performed by Merle Hazard, Bretton Wood, and Wolf Jackson; lyrics by the winner of a PBS Newshour contest:

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I Bid $28,000 for Mars

Posted in Finance, tagged on February 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Over at Boing Boing, Lee Billings interviews astrophysicist Greg Laughlin about his formula for valuing planets. Or, more precisely, measuring how much it appears we value those planets based on (a) how much we spend to search for them and (b) planet characteristics like stellar age, stellar mass, light, heat, brightness, etc. According to the formula, Earth is worth [...]

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Ode to Germany, a Mini-Song by Merle Hazard

Posted in Economy, International, tagged , , on January 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Mini is apparently the new thing in popular economics. Tyler Cowen’s new mini-book is getting lots of attention from the blogosphere. And econ-crooner Merle Hazard has released a set of mini-songs about the European debt crisis. Best so far is Ode to Germany: For more, click on over to Paul Solman’s page at the PBS [...]

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Panda Prices Plummet

Posted in Nature, tagged , on January 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »

In another sign of deflationary pressures, the Washington Post’s Michael Ruane reports that panda prices have plummeted: The National Zoo has reached an agreement with China to extend for five years the stay of Washington’s beloved black and white bears at a dramatically reduced cost. … The old $1 million-a year, 10-year lease expired Dec. [...]

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