Sunday, February 11, 2007

Best think I have found yet on Youtube

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjnFGk4GTd0 My favorite living pianist playing the most beautiful nine minutes of the 20th Century.
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Friday, February 09, 2007

Sub-prime mortgage really are more risky

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The Wall Street Journal in the past few days has featured stories about the troubled subprime mortgage industry. There was a particularly te...
Monday, January 29, 2007

Great Lyrics Period

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Goethe, Erlkönig Original German English Translation Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind; Er hat ...

Great Lyrics for Urban Economists

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From Talking Heads Cities ------- Think of London, a small city It's...
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Brad Delong cites AngryBear on Tyler Cowan

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http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/01/steven_kyle_thi.html The issue of income distribution is problematic. We like to think that income is...
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

New Orleans (again)

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In 1960, New Orleans had 627,000 people and was the largest and perhaps still most important city in the South. It now is smaller than Lexi...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

News from a tough real estate market: Metropolitan Detroit

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Susan Carter, a Realtor from the Detroit area, writes: As I thought about ways to best characterize the real estate market in Southeast...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Why Public Housing is Scorned

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I came across this on You-tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t29fgA5M7VA This comes from the film K oyaanisqatsi (a Hopi word meaning life...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Recruiting for MBAs in the Middle East

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I am home from recruiting MBA students in Dubai and Cairo. Cairo is one of the greatest cities I have ever visited; the architecture, street...
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Mumbai

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I am currently in Mumbai, recruiting MBA students. This is my second trip to this marvelous, vibrant, horrible city. When I walk the stree...
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New President at George Washington!

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We have a new president: Steven Knapp, who is currently provost at Johns Hopkins. I was hoping against hope that our new leader would be th...
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Sunday, December 03, 2006

Too much fun; Weird Al Yankovic - White and Nerdy

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Weird Al Yankovic - White and Nerdy
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Monday, November 27, 2006

To keep blogger status

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I gave a seminar on urban economics today at the George Washington Institute for Public Policy. I learned that to be a true blogger, I must...
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Monday, October 30, 2006

Airports and Economic Development

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Before the 18th Century, harbors mattered a lot. They allowed trade, and explain why the cities in the current Netherlands became rich, des...
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A Short Quote in Business Week

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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_45/b4008063.htm?chan=search
Monday, October 23, 2006

Bridges

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Slate today has gorgeous pictures of my favorite bridge--the George Washington Bridge. The bridge is a masterpiece of architecture and en...
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Monday, October 09, 2006

In the Department of Self-Promotion

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I am quoted in Robert J. Samuelson's newsweek column. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15173465/site/newsweek/page/2/
Thursday, October 05, 2006

Why I love Keynes

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From Brad Delong's blog: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/10/the_economic_co.html
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Case-Shiller, Ofheo, etc.

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This is a really wonky post, but after talking with a reporter today about house price indices, I couldn't help myself. The most common...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Long-term interest rates again

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This morning's Wall Street Journal reports that long-term interest rates are at their lowest levels in months, with the ten-year Treasu...
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