This conference held at Fordham (and blogged by Rortybomb and BaselineScenario) has some really interesting presentations. Students of EC6012 and EC4024 should definitely check these out, they are relevant to this and next week’s lectures.
Here’s Simon Johnson of MIT on the Doom (aka: Minsky) Cycle:
Simon Johnson on the Doom Cycle (MMBM) from Roosevelt Institute on [...]
I’m always trying new bits of technology to see if I can get better at teaching. Thanks to Bernie Goldbach for telling me about the fantastic Motherapp service. These guys take your content from your blog, twitter, etc., and turn it into an iphone app.
So here you have the first attempt at an app for [...]
Prof. Steve Keen blogs at debtdeflation.com, and writes and speaks frequently about the global debt bubble, here’s a speech he gave about trying to pay down the world’s massive debt burden.
Update: thanks to Tim for pointing out the annoying ‘autoplay’ feature on this video. It’s still really worth a watch though!
Nowadays, this stuff might seem old hat. But waaaay back when in 2007, I had to write my own software to do this stuff. Today people just use twission. Take a look. Thanks to Will for sending this along.
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Aim. I have 4.5 functions my site must be able to perform. Right now http://stephenkinsella.net does none of these particularly well, because web design isn’t my day job.
Teaching Pages: Podcasts/Lecture Notes/Some stuff shouldn’t appear in the main pages, etc, but I don’t want to keep editing pages the whole time. I [...]
The primary objective of the National Asset Management Agency is to increase the flow of credit to the ‘real’ economy — that’s you and me, homes and businesses — by clearing banks’ balance sheets of ‘impaired’ assets. The story goes that these assets reduce the banks’ abilities to borrow on the interbank lending market, choking [...]
Here’s Ronan Lyons‘ talk to CFA Ireland. I gave one recently, and it was a brilliant experience. Ronan’s talk is extremely well thought out, funny, and well presented. He’s also given two seminars at UL, which were great. You can take a look at the entire series here. The first talk is below.
Prof. Karl Whelan gives us a simple, useful suggestion on NAMA’s implementation:
Appoint a cross-party board to approve NAMA’s pricing of assets being transferred.
Of course opposition parties would be happy to join, but the key to making it work would be transparency around the details of NAMA’s pricing mechanism, which we’d get more readily if the [...]
I prefer this, simpler template for the site. Let me know if you like it/hate it, either by email or in the comments. Thanks.
Karl Deeter asks:
‘If you had one year to turn the economy around or you would be publicly executed, what policies would you enact?’
Well first, what’s the problem?
Oh yeah: soaring unemployment, depression-level falls in aggregate demand, popped construction bubble and poor regulation leading to banks in distress, small and medium enterprises choking for lack of working [...]