Friday, November 30, 2012

Hannah Green in Thinkprogress on Renewable Energy in India

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She writes : This August, power shortages in India that left 300 million in the dark made it very clear that one of the world’s fastest...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

The housing cycle is the business cycle--again

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Ed Leamer said so .  I said so .  And I continue to think it so. Run a simple bi-directional Granger Causality model of change in residen...
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What is Apple's objective function?

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Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs is a lot of fun--at least in part because it is not a hagiography. One of the most striking...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

It turns out Harry Hopkins didn't say it

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After Mitt Romney's "gifts" comments, I couldn't help but remember that I thought FDR advisor and WPA director Harry Hopk...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Karen Chapple on the most reasonable way to create affordable housing

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Housers need to listen to this:
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The myth that taxes are too complicated for the typical American

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I was listening to David Walker on the radio this morning, and he was going on about how tax preparation is too complicated for the vast m...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Mark Thoma suggests that Sheila Bair could be the next Treasury Secretary

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He talks about the Fed and Treasury here .  Bair would be a superb choice.
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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Coastlines and votes

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President Obama did better on the coasts and the Great Lakes states than elsewhere.  I thought it would be fun to plot coastline/shoreline ...
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Who is doing the shopping?

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I was listening to a retailer last week discuss the interaction between housewives and grocery stores.  The tone of his remarks suggested t...
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Saturday, November 10, 2012

I am not thrilled...

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..that President Obama has made Tim Geithner the point person for budget negotiations. I very much hope he doesn't negotiate away the P...
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Friday, November 09, 2012

Remarks to USC Alumni Association

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Monday, November 05, 2012

Another thought on Nate Silver

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If poll errors are randomly distributed across states, then Obama has it won.  But if they are not, Romney still had a chance.   If how vot...
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I was wondering about Nate Silver's confidence intervals.

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There is a nice discussion here.
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Sunday, October 21, 2012

More detail on the MID and House Prices (long and wonky)

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Capozza, Hendershott and Green (1997) developed a model of determining whether federal tax policy would be capitalized in...
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