Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Are the Average SATs for your school really that high?

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Have you ever wondered how so many Universities can have such intimidatingly high SAT scores? Well, perhaps they can't. I was reading ...
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Understanding the Mortgage Interest Deduction

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Homeowners get a tax advantage relative to rents. But those with mortgage are not at an advantage relative to those who finance with equit...
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Friday, July 27, 2007

Fixed rate mortgages vs ARMS

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Floyd Norris's NYT column today is good: http://select.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/business/27norris.html I have long held a view that hosueh...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Means and medians

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The popular press seems to have a hard time understanding when a median (the 50th percentile) is better, and when to use a mean (the sum of ...
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Trigger events

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During past mortgage default spikes, having an "in-the-money" default option (that is, having a house that was worth less than the...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Brad Delong channels Jared Bernstein who channels Timothy Egan

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http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/07/the-minimum-wag.html I was eating at the bar of a restaurant in San Francisco a few weeks ago. The bar...
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What is it with these people?

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I happened upon a poll on CNN last night. 79 percent of say they are Americans are OK with a woman president, 86 percent (I think) say they...
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Monday, July 23, 2007

The Excellent Ken Small on Transportation Policy

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This is really good: I think his points about more heterogeneous urban highways (not all arterials need to be freeways; not every highway ne...
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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Research and Teaching

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A smart colleague of mine, James Bailey, argues that teaching excellence and research excellence are uncorrelated. Specifically, he cites w...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

It's the ARMS, stupid

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Aleablog cites the Fed: http://www.aleablog.com/?p=329 Prime mortgages are doing fine; fixed-rate subprime mortgages are doing fine. ARMS w...
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The Great Divide

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I liked this piece in Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2170561/nav/tap3/ I was struck by the divide while in San Francisco last weekend (I was...
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Monday, July 16, 2007

Cap Rates and the Ten-year Treasury Rate

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The current 10 years treasury rate is 5.1 percent; Cap Rates on San Francisco office buildings are running around 5.5 percent. On the one h...
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Friday, July 13, 2007

The Savior of Capitalisim, or its End?

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Marx argued for the tendency of the rate of profit to fall: The progressive tendency of the general rate of profit to fall is, therefore, ju...
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When agglomeration makes things worse

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I have just returned from the Asian Real Estate Society conference in Macao. The conference was very good, as was the food. The small, hi...
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Monday, July 02, 2007

Brad Delong on Academic Blogging

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The hope of all of us who blog is that we will become smarter, do more useful work, be happier and more productive, and will also impress ou...
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Sunday, July 01, 2007

You know you're a mortgage geek when...

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You are taking a walk with your wife on a beautiful Sunday morning: You: deep sigh Wife: what's the matter ? You: just thinking about t...
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A really awful SCOTUS decision

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The decision overturning the Seattle and Louisville desegregation plans, plans that used race as a tiebreaker after many other consideration...
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Friday, June 29, 2007

Why some classes are harder (and better) than others

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One excerpt from the profile on Hoffman: Hoffmann once asked Richardson, who has studied the 1956 Suez crisis in depth, to suggest some rele...
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A Nice Profile of Stanley Hoffman

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Go here: http://www.harvardmagazine.com/2007/07/le-professeur.html Hoffman was among my two very favorite professors in college (my Shakespe...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Reading we alluded to in Business Institute today

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On college and future success: http://www.irs.princeton.edu/pubs/pdfs/409.pdf
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