I watched High Fidelity [IMDB, Wikipedia] for the first time over the weekend. It’s okay. It’s pretty clear that anyone that liked Empire Records [IMDB, Wikipedia] when they were 20 years old would love High Fidelity when they’re 25.
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I'm an economics grad student at the London School of Economics. I'm Australian, but have lived in the UK for quite a few years now.
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Recent Posts
- Gold vs. US Treasuries
- Is Paul Krugman nine times as interesting as sex?
- Don’t put a nappy on me just because you’re mollycoddling idiot #8,749
- Improving the Euro
- The Australian Election: Explaining the result
- The Australian Election (3 days past and the ball is still in the air)
- US treasury interest rates and (disin|de)flation
- Upgrades, upgrades
- The Australian Election
- What effect does a change in interest rates have on today’s consumption?
- Paying interest on (excess) reserves (Updated)
- A cool idea: the book tuner
- In today’s episode of Politically Dicey But Important Topics Of Research …
- Some random links
- The new UK bank levy is fantastic
Recent Comments
- Gold vs. US Treasuries (1)
- John Hempton: Thanks – and noted.
- Is Paul Krugman nine times as interesting as sex? (1)
- Chris: Hmm, I’d suggest combining the two, but he’s a bit beardy. Of course, I can’t speak for the...
- Improving the Euro (4)
- John Barrdear: Heh. Nah, it turns out that with a recent update of Wordpress, my settings had changed back to a...
- Adam: I think I missed the “relative” in the original sentence. I just figure that to your Bayesian...
- John Barrdear: Yes. Remember that I mean to speak of an inevitable relative decline, so it will also happen because...
- Adam: Inevitable decline? I’m guessing you mean in terms of economic size as measured by GDP, because of more...
- Don’t put a nappy on me just because you’re mollycoddling idiot #8,749 (2)
- John Barrdear: Another excellent example! Enforced speed limits versus recommended maximum speeds … And...
- James: I agree – ish. I am in favour of informed choices. Let us make our own mind up about what we do and...
- The Australian Election: Explaining the result (3)
- John Barrdear: I’d agree with you on the ETS — Labor aren’t as wedded to it as they purported to be...
Economics (Academic)
- Alex Tabarrok & Tyler Cowen (George Mason U.)
- Andrew Leigh (Aust. National U.)
- Arnold Kling & Bryan Caplan (George Mason U.)
- Brad DeLong (U.C. Berkeley)
- Chris Blattman (Yale U.)
- Dani Rodrik (Harvard U.)
- David Beckworth (Texas State U.)
- Gary Becker & Richard Posner (U. Chicago)
- Greg Mankiw (Harvard U.)
- James Hamilton (U.C. San Diego) & Menzie Chinn (U. of Wisconsin)
- John Quiggin (U. Queensland)
- Joshua Gans (U. Melbourne)
- Justin Wolfers (U. of Pennsylvania)
- Mark Thoma (U. Oregon)
- Paul Krugman (Princeton U.)
- Robin Hanson (George Mason U.)
- Scott Sumner (Bentley U.)
- Steve Waldman (PhD candidate – U. of Kentucky)
- Steven Levitt (U. Chicago)
- Tim Duy (U. Oregon)
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