two of the best?
As seemed likely, Treasurer Swan is selling this as a inflation-busting budget. Well, I can’t blame him… that’s what do
Budget fibs
The one that is getting me tonight is the idea that we can simultaneously take pressure off inflation and help
Aussie budget facts
It’s budget day tomorrow, so we’re going to hear a lot of tosh. To help guide the way, I thought
Anyone for a wage price spiral?
Australia has had problems with inflation every time the unemployment rate has been below 5%. In the prior boom, CPI
bernanke burns taleb
R: what do you think of taleb’s black swan? BB: ohh … i don’t read that stuff
new-R
R 2.13 has been released! http://cran.r-project.org/
not so simple, simon
Simon Johnson got it wrong in an opinion piece for Bloomberg today – Discussing the 10tn swing in CBO deficit
exorbitant pain
Overnight, the US found that its prior exploitation of the exorbitant privlidge had turned into something of a pain. S&P
Falkenstein on Taleb’s Black Swan
The best informed review of Taleb’s Black Swan I have read — here …just because selling puts is a bad
go for growth?
I made a bit of hay about the asset allocation of Aussie savers in my post about the bias of
ricardian ambivalence 