Today is a sad day, the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. My blog post has some personal reflections on JFK. At his best, he was an example of what Presidential leadership should be.
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Some academic fields actually have standards. showmethemath.org/2023/10/st…
Stanford President Tessier-Levigne declares that he is against the creation of "thought police" at Stanford. This sounds good but why does Stanford have "speech police"? See showmethemath.org/2023/06/wh…
Stanford has declared that it has not banned "American". I share the reactions expressed in my retweets of David Henderson and Harald Uhlig.
Ken Judd retweeted
Give me a break. The CIO's message says Stanford cares about precision. No it doesn't. If Stanford cared about precision, it wouldn't use the exact same term for paraplegic as for quadriplegic. That reduces precision.
A Stanford project does not like the word "American". "Political correctness" knows no bounds! showmethemath.org/2022/12/st…
My blog post today -- showmethemath.org/2022/10/hu… -- highlights Claudia Sahm, a courageous young woman. Since I spend so much time reading math journals instead of social media, I had missed her campaign to improve economics. Time for me to help her get her message out.
This is the time of year when we ask an important question. My answer is that economic often fails the most basic requirements of being a science.
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Another reason why you cannot trust what you read in economics papers.
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Some macroeconomists are humble people, citing a low IQ as a reason for the simplicity of their models. showmethemath.org/2022/10/ma…
I am hosting a computational economics webinar Tuesday, August 2, starting at 10am (PST). See details at showmethemath.org/2022/07/es…
NYC Fed wants Lars Hansen to tell them about climate change and economics. Why?? He is against most research on the topic. showmethemath.org/2022/05/ny…
A 2010 Congressional hearing tells us what is wrong with macro: lack of brain power. showmethemath.org/2022/05/co…
Macroeconomics love Barro (1979) even though Dehejia and Rowe (1995) showed that it is valid only for quadratic loss functions for tax revenue, which contradicts basic micro. showmethemath.org/2022/05/ma… #HooverFedConference
I am attending a macro conference (hoover.org/events/2022hoover……). I am posting comments at my blog showmethemath.org. #HooverFedConference
I am attending a macro conference (hoover.org/events/2022hoover…). Larry Summers shocked me when he said he found RAs that would run simulations of FRB/US. His comments also prompted me to ask "Why can't the Fed be as good as the Bank of Canada"? See my blog showmethemath.org/2022/05/wh….
I had the pleasure of attending a promotion ceremony for Lt. Col. Jennifer Carns, a Hoover National Security Affairs Fellow from the Air Force. It reminded me of how professionals act when they take their job seriously.
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Many think that Putin is crazy and irrational. I think that we should first look at the possible rational reasons Putin had for attacking Ukraine, and what a rational Putin has learned.
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Pence is learning, but slowly. He says there is no room in the Republican Party for Putin apologists. What is next? 1+1=2? The sun will set tonight but rise again tomorrow? No room for Putin apologists in the White House?cnn.com/2022/03/04/politics/…