Niko Kotsoulas, '16: "FM&I class helped… | Center for Financial Economics
Niko Kotsoulas reports, “Financial Markets and Institutions class helped prepare me for my current job at Morgan Stanley, and helps me make decisions at work as a Leveraged Finance analyst on a daily basis. I also got the opportunity to work closely with Professor Faust on a couple of projects. Anyone pursuing a career in …
A Fuzzchart on Federal Spending Courtesy of John Taylor
Mark Thoma used to crack me up when he would refer to those Jerry Bowyer National Review graphs as Fuzz Charts since Bowyer usually tried ...
Most favoured customer status
One of the things that annoys about the neoliberal era is the constant advice to "shop around" for the best deal for services we could once assume were fairly priced, like electricity or banking services. A crucial feature of this is that you can't do this once and for all. Loyal customers are routinely punished…
Alternatives to the Four-Year College Track for Everyone Else
As the US goes through one of its periodic paroxysms over how the small minority of high school graduates who attend a selective four-year u...
From Commodity to Fiat and Now to Crypto: What Does History Tell Us?
Nice paper as always from Prof Barry Eichengreen: Over time, there has been a tendency for political jurisdictions and residents to converge on a single currency. Monopoly over seigniorage is a source of political power and a valuable lifeline when sovereignty is threatened. Moreover a uniform currency, insofar as it is free of counterparty and…
Time Management and the Budget Debate
What features tiger blood, March madness, federal deficits, and Stephen Covey's time-management advice? My latest column at CNN Money: America faces trillions of dollars in deficits in coming years. But Congress has been reduced to funding the government three weeks at a time so it can fight over mere billions. Why is Congress spending so…
Flashback: Housing Prices in 2009
Last month I floated the idea that the housing market had hit its bottom. The two things I saw were: a December increase in housing prices ...
Links I liked - Chris Blattman
1. My co-author Julian blogs from our street youth behavior change program in Liberia (see more here) 2. Does self-control lead to aggression? 3. The indirect effects of cash transfer programs 4. Felix Salmon revisits his “don’t give to Japan” … Continue reading →
115th Birth Anniversary of JRD Tata
Madras Courier pays a tribute to Mr JRD Tata on hos 115th Birth Anniversary.
The decline in prime age labor force participation: the smoking gun (part 2 of 2); comparing June Cleaver and Roseanne Conner
- by New Deal democrat I recently wrote about the compelling evidence that the biggest reason for the decline in the prime working...
China, not automation, is by far the biggest factor in the decline of prime age labor force participation
- by New Deal democrat Perhaps the biggest mystery in economic analysis in the last few years has been trying to find an explanati...
Brad Delong’s analysis of the housing crisis
TweetIn this post, Delong comments on debate between Joe Nocera and Peter Wallison and then sums up his view of Fannie and Freddie and the crisis: When the housing bubble took off–and when mortgage loans and MBSs became really risky–that’s […]
Comments
Post a Comment