Archive for October, 2006
Political Futurama (updated)
Ezra and Matt mention the predictions of a statistical political model in a couple of interesting posts, but the most fascinating part of electoral forecasting, in my opinion, is the futures markets, one of which–Intrade–Ezra refers to at the bottom of his post. These are exchanges which have been set up on the basis of [...]
How Wide the Pond
The internet sometimes fools me into thinking that I remain plugged in to the goings on in The Land of Plenty.* I get all caught up in world-is-flatism as I read my online papers and blogs and start thinking that it’s like we never left, sort of. Then I sit down in front of my computer [...]
Dissertation
Some of you asked me, before I left, what exactly I was planning on doing over the course of the 200,000 some words that were to be the result of my PhD program. So, once and for all, I’m going to write out my Big Ideas. Feel free to follow along after the jump. Also, [...]
U-Turn
So, I think we can make the news official, now. After careful thought, Lisa and I have decided to return to Washington. Most likely, we’ll be back sometime in mid-November. In time for Thanksgiving, for sure. There are lots of reasons, and if you care to hear them, we’ll gladly explain everything when we return. [...]
Taking the week off…
More later.
Allowances
The site has had lots of the, what do you call it, firebreathing in the last month or so, yes? When I sat down with my phd supervisor a few weeks ago, he told me that one of the most important parts of doing a dissertation is to just write and keep writing. You can’t [...]
Tsk
I have to say I’m disappointed with TNR for running this post, on a CEPR paper that claims to undermine the argument that advantages are conferred upon the United States, relative to Europe, because of our more flexible labor market. I’ve ripped on CEPR on this blog before (note: not the good one, the Washington think-tank). [...]
It’s almost that time of the month
Did you notice this headline yesterday? A recent US study found that 30 college-aged women (yes they studied a whole 30 women) dressed more “fashionably” or “flashier” when they were ovulating. That this is a scientific finding makes me think I could be a scientist, as I can easily explain this “startling” discovery. First, according [...]
Cease and DCist
Hey, I’m back. I think it’s always interesting to see the reaction to proposals to improve city space in ways that aren’t necessarily automobile friendly. The District would be much better off not having Georgetown as a conduit to downtown, and any solution that eliminated the Key Bridge as a main route into the city [...]
Make Way for Density
I am perpetually amazed at the growth that’s taken place in my hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina since I was born there in 1978. At that time, it was a sleepy state capital whose efforts to attract new development included the successful recruitment of an IBM campus, but not much else. Since that time, the [...]