…except that they are way harder to punch in the face when they do stupid s**t. The good news is that the Supreme Court apparently understands the concept of speaking via dollars. (If you are not familiar with this notion, consider that I make a statement every time I refuse to shop at [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Follow Ups'
Follow Up: Corporations Are People Too…
January 21st, 2010 · 12 Comments
Follow Ups · Policy
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Follow Up: More Female Economic Indicators…
September 26th, 2009 · 11 Comments
Econ 101 · Follow Ups · Macroeconomics
Last week I addressed the question of whether there were female-centered economic indicators as opposed to just things like men’s underwear and hot waitresses. Today I found another one. According to The Chosun Ilbo (I totally get the random source award here. HT to EconomicMayhem), hair dye is also a countercyclical economic indicator:
Dyed [...]
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From The Vault: A Lesson On Economic Indicators (And Yeah, I Went There)…
September 2nd, 2009 · 8 Comments
Follow Ups · From The Vault · Macroeconomics
A reader just emailed me the following:
I just came across this article and [thought]: “That would be perfect for the EDIWM website/facebook page.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/30/AR2009083002761.html?nav=hcmodule
So just in case you hadn’t seen it, I thought I would send a link to you.
(Hat tip to John Harvey.) The article is from August 31, 2009 and has the title [...]
Tags: Follow Ups · From The Vault · Macroeconomics
Follow Up: If You’re Into TED Talks…
August 28th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Follow Ups · Uncategorizable
After posting Dan Pink’s TED talk yesterday, Jarret sends me the following:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pjGlYH-8AK8ffDa6o2bYlXg
along with the text “Not to be confused with the real TED spread…”
I couldn’t help but giggle. First, the spreadsheet is a catalog of every TED talk along with topic area, date, summary, etc. You could theoretically copy the spreadsheet and use [...]
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Follow Up: Well That Was a Clunker Of A Plan…
August 25th, 2009 · 11 Comments
Econ 101 · Follow Ups · Policy
(You can see the original post on “Cash for Clunkers” here.)
In case you haven’t heard, it was reported on Friday that the “Cash For Clunkers” program ended yesterday…hope you weren’t planning on taking advantage of the discount on a shiny new vehicle this weekend. Though that presupposes that there are any cars left on [...]
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