The UCSD Economics Department has set up a remembrance page in honor of Clive Granger. Those of you who contributed such moving remarks here at Econbrowser are invited to enter them also on the UCSD remembrance page, as well as to visit the other material collected there.
Granger’s comment on throwing pearl necklaces with magnets made me understand cointegration. Most analogies are bad (except Shakespeare of course), but that he used pearl necklaces to explain both nonstationarity and cointegration makes him a genius.