Attention conservation notice: This is a bit of a rant.
Perhaps I should stay away from environmentalists on radios. They cause stress, as you’ll see below. Stress is bad for your health, and environmentalists like this one cause me stress. So environmentalists might be bad for your health, after all.*
I’d written about nuclear power in a [...]
Paul Krugman shows us the three epochs of non boring banking since the 1930’s, then uber historian Kevin O’Rouke posts the original article Krugman’s piece was based upon, then the baseline scenario produce this graph, and I blog about the whole thing. Brilliant.
The paper linked to by Phillipon and Reshef will end up on [...]
Here’s part 1 of a two part lecture on a new paper describing how we should think about modeling a world with different interest rates in a simple Keynesian schema.
A 3 slide handout is here, and the slides are below
Ec6012 Lecture10 The Equations of Finance
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Tagged EC6012This lecture will introduce financial economics students to the concepts of Irish corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility. The goal is to show how lax corporate governance and financial fragility as defined by Minsky interact. Given the recent episodes in our indigenous banking sector, this lecture is pertinent, timely, and practical.
Here is a 3 slides [...]
Here’s a paper just published online in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.
Abstract
Background: The standard evaluation of patients with right upper quadrant (RUQ) abdominal pain consists of a history and physical examination, laboratory analysis, and radiological investigation. Given the increasing availability of bedside ultrasound in the Emergency Department (ED), a growing proportion of Emergency Physicians are [...]
UCD’s Geary institute, along with TCD and UL, are beginning a collaborative online forum to allow discussion of specific ideas which will improve people’s lives and aid the process of recovery in the irish economy. The project is new, and needs volunteers and beta testers before it is ready for a full roll out. Those [...]
Tagged GeneralFrom Twitter.com, via Ze Slugger himself, QUB’s Dr. Ciaran O’Kelly hits the Anglo Irish nationalisation story nail squarely on the head, driving it through the wood and solidly into next door’s fireplace. In less than 140 characters.
I’m participating in a live Podcast on Slugger O’Toole tomorrow at 11am, click here to get to the audio stream. We’ll be talking for around 30 minutes about the Anglo nationalisation and prospects of the Irish economy for 2009, you can get the audio after about 15 minutes, so start listening at 11.15 so so.
The [...]
Paul Krugman’s Nobel lecture is now online, take a look here, you’ll need Windows Media player or Real player to have a look. More information on the NYT columnist is here.
Tagged GeneralFollowing some interested, interesting, and inquiring tweets from Markham Nolan, Dr Kane clarified where the new exchequer numbers come from, and has given me permission to post his remarks here. Have a read, and get smarter:
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Here’s the low-down. Some basic cash accounting distinctions: some items are deficit-determining, some are deficit financing—also called ‘above and below [...]