Sunday, June 29, 2008

See The Visitor

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A movie about an economics professor, music and immigration policy . It is a powerful and poignant indictment of how America's governme...
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Perhaps some hope on California's Housing Market

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According to the California Association of Realtors , existing home sales in May were up 18 percent from a year earlier. At the same time, ...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Superior Classical Music Blogging

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So I am listening to Perahia's Goldbergs, and I run across this: http://jessicamusic.blogspot.com/ . Jessica is clearly witty and inform...
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Was the "Northwest" in North by Northwest the first example of product placement?

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One commenter thinks it is perhaps so. You see the red tail when Carey Grant and Leo G. Carroll are headed for a plane from Midway to Rapid...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

More on airlines

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I didn't mean to pick on United in my last post, it just happened to be the airline that the woman worked for. I hear people complain a...
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Framing

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When I was in Philadelphia last week, I met a woman who had worked in the HR department at United Airlines. As one might expect, the employ...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Stuart Thiel knows why people are unhappy (about George Bush)

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Stuart (my Econometrics TA in Graduate School) has been tracking this relationship for some time. Looks pretty robust to me.
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Great Piano Moments I have heard

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Martha Argerich playing the Chopin F-minor with the Minnesota (I was 16 and I think I fell in love) Duke Ellington at Interlochen. His tech...
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If we have hit peak oil, what won't I mind giving up.

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I don't mind driving a small car (especially now that we don't need a minivan to cart around the kids, their friends, and their prop...
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NME says the youtube Lhevine recording of La Campanella is authentic

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The commentary is here . I myself am befuddled--but this recording is quite wonderful--the phrasing during the first 40 seconds is magic, an...
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Friday, June 20, 2008

Jumbo Conforming Spreads widen again

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I looked at the Wells-Fargo web site this morning: the difference on APRS between jumbo and conforming 30-year fixed rate mortgages was 156 ...
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Mark Thoma explains why people are unhappy

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For the past four or five years, I have gone to a meeting that the CFO of DC convenes to get views on the state of the area real estate mark...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

La Campanella Liszt-Busoni Performed by Lhevinne

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My freshman year college roommate introduced me to Lhevine's playing. I didn't much care for my freshman roommate, and when I for s...
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Natural Experiments in the Marginal Productivity of Labor

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Tiger Woods made everyone in my family a golf fan. Before Tiger, I might watch the last round of the British Open, but that was about it (I...
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Bumsoo Lee, Peter Gordon, James E. Moore, II, and Harry W. Richardson tell us how many trips we take, and the reasons we take them.

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My soon-to-be colleagues do so here: RESIDENTIAL LOCATION, LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION: THE NEGLECTED ROLE OF NONWORK TRAVEL . They find tha...
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Sunday, June 15, 2008

When Turtle talked about "Cheap money," we should have known there was a bubble

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As part of my *ahem* research for living in Southern California, I started watching the first season of Entourage. In the second episode, Vi...
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A little more on Gas and Urban Land

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Yesterday, I made an assumption that each household made five trips per day--this was pulled out of thin air, because I couldn't find an...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008

My Upcoming Industry Talks

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June 25, Real Estate Capital Markets After the Credit Crisis , UBC Center for Urban Economics, Vancouver. June 26, Pacific Coast Builders Co...

$4 per gallon gasoline and the urban land market

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Over the past six years, the price of gasoline has risen about $2 per gallon. What does this mean for relative urban land prices? Let's...
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He looked things up

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Which for me, is the ultimately tribute. RIP, Tim Russert.