ricardian ambivalence

Scheduling tasks with Mac’s launchd (moving on from cron)

With the move to OSX 10.8.2 I have finally given up on cron as a task scheduler. This post is

The February non farm payrolls report was better than most expected, with establishment employment estimated to grow by 236k jobs

Cochrane has posted his ‘hard debt’ WSJ op ed on his blog. The op-ed deals with three related questions: 1/

A new iTerm2 beta and associated tmux release occurred a few days back. You can find the downloads at the

Q4’12 GDP came in bang on the median expectation of +0.6%q/q 93.1%y/y), however it was a little lower than the

The March RBA statement contained only a few tweaks, and in many ways it was notable for what the RBA

In retrospect, the peak in AUD buying for bond diversification was probably Q1’12: just about the time that it became

The March RBA meeting has the feel of a ‘dead rubber’, with only 3.5bps of easing priced (a 14% chance)

I have had a devil of a time replicating my laptop setup on my desktop. The most frustrating issue has

The WSJ’s Jon Hilsenrath has an amusing note in which he plays Bernanke’s Babel-fish. You can read Jon’s note, or

Bernanke gave a speech on long term rates on 1 March. In it, he provided the above forecast track for

The January PCE report suggests that it remains way to early for the FOMC to be looking for the exit.