Do economists have a sensible way of thinking about the world?
Category Archives: here and there
Putting arcane symbols into Powerpoint presentations
I’ve just written up the Idiot’s Guide to Using Tex with Powerpoint. Here it is (it’s only one sentence long):
Download this, find the symbol you want, and copy and paste it into your presentation.
Here and there around the web
Catching my eye here and there around the web this week: the source found for one of Saturn’s rings and some interesting comments on Enron, Iran, and Americans serving in Iraq.
Podcast with Kudlow & Company
I had a reunion with two of my previous pajama party participants, Paul Hoffmeister of Polyconomics, and Larry Kudlow of Kudlow and Company and Money Politics. This time we had an old-fashioned spoken conversation on the state of the economy that’s available as a podcast.
Blogjam at the PJ Corral
I participated in a blogjam yesterday hosted by Pajamas Media. What’s a blogjam, you ask?
Best business weblog award
Thanks to Dave Schuler of the Glittering Eye for nominating Econbrowser for best business blog award for 2005.
Here and there around the web
Catching my eye here and there around the web: latest housing indicators may not be as bullish as they seem, what to make of all the indictments, price-gouging is all-American, and more insights into fuel use per dollar of GDP.
On a lighter note
Who says economists don’t have a sense of humor? Well, maybe you will, after you find out
that I admit to having chuckled over these accounts. Judge for yourself.
Here and there around the web
Catching my eye here and there around the web: Supreme Court speculation, a natural
experiment in market microstructure, a troubling Kansas court decision, pirates, and an
expression of support for those in London.