August non-farm payrolls not enough for a ‘twist’
The August non-farm payrolls report was a bit of a disaster, and it materially increases the probability that the Fed
Has the ALP sounded out independents re: dumping Gillard?
I read in the Saturday papers that Windsor and Wilkie — two of the three independents the ALP needs to
Gillard on notice
First, Sportsbet suspended betting on Gillard being dumped before the end of the 2011. Now, this morning, Gillard was all
Is IR becoming a problem?
One of my themes is that the NAIRU has probably moved up because of the re-regulation of the workplace. This
Bernanke’s 2011 Jackson Hole migration
I regard Bernanke’s 2011 Jackson Hole speech as a striking out for the Chairman. I think that Bernanke is trying to
Will Labor last another year?
Centrebet is predicting a 56% chance of a federal election by 30 June 2012. It is also predicting that the
An ACT expeditionary force?
The Senate today passed a private Senator’s bill, sponsored by Bob Brown, titled the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Amendment (Disallowance
Visualising City to Surf 2011
I love the City to Surf. Being a fun run, it is not only a lot of fun, but also
BeautifulSoup in Python (with Windows 7)
I wanted to parse some HTML, to better scrape data from the web, so I downloaded BeautifulSoup. Unzipping was a
Python or Perl?
I recently started working my way through Nathan Yau’s book Visualise This. In it, he introduces readers to Python. I
ricardian ambivalence 