Economics Roundtable

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Are back-to-back quarters of 0.6% GDP growth a recession? The blogs weigh in at Recession?

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As of 2/19/08, the Economics Roundtable includes 137 commentators.

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"Personal Weblog of Michael Stastny”


May 9, 2008, 6:53 am, 289445

“Trying to buy a mortgage bank in the midst of the subprime crisis was the equivalent of being a noodle salesman in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb went off. Not a lot of noodles left, or even a person, and that’s what happened to us on this deal.”

Story.


May 8, 2008, 3:54 am, 288693
Three weeks ago (AMZN):

Currently (Bloomberg.com):


May 7, 2008, 10:20 am, 288140

In 2006, an iPod that cost about $200 would have cost $1B in 1976 and would have been very large. [Source]


May 4, 2008, 4:29 pm, 286472
Saddest thing I read today (Schumpeter):

"[Bortkiewicz] was not a good lecturer, and his lectures, which he elaborated with a minute and conscientious attention to details all his own, were said to be delivered to rather empty classrooms.

His critical acumen ...


May 3, 2008, 12:56 pm, 286179
This paper* explains why modern societies are less polygynous than less-developed societies:

Men in less-developed economies prefer quantity over quality [=skill] in wives and children. The explanation is rather intuitive. Rich men in less-developed economies are not efficient at producing ...


May 2, 2008, 8:59 am, 285676
Portfolio.com: Hedge funds are dragging defectors into ugly courtroom battles over trade secrets.

Eric Falkenstein isn't your typical 42-year-old hedge fund manager. Instead of trading stocks all day or courting new investors, he spends his time updating his blog, researching equity strategies, and talking to his lawyer. He's ...


March 19, 2008, 6:02 pm, 265068
The video is out!:
He he. Quants like laws.


March 18, 2008, 4:10 pm, 264374


March 14, 2008, 5:57 pm, 262579
My father has been hospitalized shortly after we returned from Cuba. He was in artificial deep sleep for more than a week but now he's already doing fine (Today: Tell mom I really need my laptop). The funny thing is that the hospital told us that everybody who was ...


March 12, 2008, 5:12 pm, 261423
At the moment, I'm reading Hedge funds: Quantitative Insights by François-Serge Lhabitant (required reading for CAIA Level 1). Seems this guy read A First Lesson in Econometrics* by John Siegfried:

"The Gibbons, Ross and Shanken (1989) test compares the estimated maximum Sharpe ratio for the original ...



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