Tag Archives: Economics

Chuck Norris and the Financial Crisis

If you like Chuck Norris jokes and follow the current financial crisis news, then this is for you!  My personal favorites are “Chuck Norris doesn’t mark-to-market. The market marks to Chuck Norris.” and ” Chuck Norris thinks Credit Crunch is a breakfast cereal.”

Chuck Norris can borrow at the discount window
Chuck Norris can sell $300bln in [...]

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Yet Another Economics and Poop Post

It turns out that there are tons of incentive problems with cleaning up after your pet, meaning that as a dog-owning economist with a blog I’m obligated to write about all of them.  I talked about the idea of placing a special bin on city streets for dog-waste in yesterday’s post with an eye toward [...]

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Energy Independence

Claire sent me a link to this older article earlier today about San Francisco’s attempt at converting dog poop into energy.  From the article:
Under the pilot plan, announced this week, Sunset Scavenger will place biodegradable bags and what are tastefully called dog-waste carts in a popular San Francisco dog park. The dog poo will then [...]

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The “New Statistics”

I don’t mean to steal Eric Zivot’s thunder (well actually, I do), but he sent out a link to this blog post on econgrad earlier. It’s just about the funniest statistical commentary I’ve ever seen (not that that’s saying a lot.)

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Economics and Politics

It’s a good thing I’m in on the ground floor with my brother for his eventual presidential run in 2032:
…the early advisers to presidential candidates can leave a big imprint. For the 2008 campaign, the six leading campaigns have each signed up their first-string economic policy teams. These advisers don’t hold the sway that the [...]

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