I was in Japan a week ago, giving lectures at some of the universities in Tokyo and the Bank of Japan. I couldn’t help but be struck by how differently energy is used in Tokyo compared with southern California.
The Compleat UberNerd
An UberNerd, Tanta tells us, is
someone who is compelled to understand how things work in grim detail, even if the things in question are tedious in the extreme, like mortgage insurance policies.
A Compleat UberNerd is then
Someone who has read all these posts already and quotes them at tailgate parties.
She kindly provides all the links necessary to become the Compleat UberNerd over at Calculated Risk.
Puzzling over the employment report
How to reconcile the latest solid employment numbers with other indicators of economic weakness?
Maybe the Euro Isn’t the Competition
June auto sales
Not a good month for the domestic automakers.
What is an Econbrowser?
I asked TouchGraph Google Browser, and here’s what it thinks.
The yield curve dis-inverts, sort of
Long term yields have jumped up, as Jim noted. The spread between the 10 year and 3 month interest rate has moved positive.
A new U.S. refinery inches a little closer
Some good news on the latest court challenge to the effort by Arizona Clean Fuels to build a new refinery in southwestern Arizona.
CDOs: what’s the big deal?
Here are my two cents on concerns about possible systemic financial problems.
The 2006 Net International Investment Position
The BEA released the end-2006 net international investment position (NIIP) today.