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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Economics 29/9/10: IMF or EFSF hypotheticals

Hypothetical discussion of options for external assistance for Ireland in today's Irish Examiner - here, text link - here, associated publicity - here.

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On the Record Concerning the Fiscal Compact Treaty Referendum

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(2) Ireland's constitutional system of checks and balances has worked, and the credit is also due to the Attorney General.

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My article, for Globe & Mail, outlining core problems with the Fiscal Compact Treaty is available here.

A real Civil Society initiative worth following: BondWatch Ireland

Nassim Nicholas Taleb was asked by BBC's Jeremy Paxman whether the people taking to the streets in Athens is a Black Swan Event. He replied: “No. The real Black Swan Event is that people are not rioting against the banks in London and New York.”

Intellectual Freedom & Courage are Under Fire in Greece: read this.

National Debt Clock
from Finance Dublin
"This is a measure of the legacy our Government is in the process of bequeathing to the children of Ireland."

"Getting worse more slowly is not the same as getting better", Prof. Brad DeLong (U of California, Berkeley)

"Samia of Fife was five feet tall, exactly, and all sixty inches of her were in a state of quivering exasperation. She weighed one and a half pounds per inch and, at the moment, each of her ninety pounds represented sixteen ounces of solid anger," Isaac Asimov, The Currents of Space

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Great post on Steve Jobs' legacy as "intellectual capital" innovator (here) and a commemoration page for Jobs (here)

Greek Government & Elites attack courageous intellectual dissenter & economist Yanis Varoufakis (here)

How influential are influential scientists? Brilliant research into the value of brilliance in research (here)

When economics inspires artists - a must see (here)

A fascinating article on mathematics of artistic beauty (here)

Superb analysis of the denial of reality that is going on in the EU corridors of power & in Ireland (here)

One of the best articles on macro dynamics and the ways to read data on 'recoveries' based on 'bottoming out' of the recession (here)

A worthy article outlining Euro's downward trajectory and the roots of the common currency problems (here)

Irish Times piece on IBM's eco-efficiency jam (here)

An excellent post on post-Malthusian view of pre-Enlightenment environmentalism (here).

John Cochrane of UofC responds to Paul Krugman's infamous article on whether Chicago-school economists failed to predict the current crisis and demolishes Krugman throughly and brilliantly - here.

Ronan Lyons makes the case for flat tax on income in Ireland at around 15-18% (here)

A timeless interview with Gary S Becker in WSJ: here

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Economics 29/9/10: IMF or EFSF hypotheticals

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