Category: Economics
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Looks like we should all move to North Dakota: A Map That Should Panic the Obama Campaign. Cheers.
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Mortgages, banks, and Jensen’s inequality Cheers.
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The US Has the Highest Share of Employees in Low Wage Work Cheers.
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An interesting debate between Andrew Gelman (and Kaiser Fung) and the Freakonomics authors, Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt. Freakonomics was published. Gelman and Fung write: Freakonomics: What Went Wrong? Freakonomics Responds. Gelman gets “meta” It also appears that a good way to get mentioned on the Freakonomics blog is to accuse them of plagiarism (a very…
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The European Super Highway of Debt via chartporn.org Cheers.
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I received an email this morning from a friend: “Is there any sort of a statistical breakdown for which are the best numbers to have in a Super Bowl squares pool (for entertainment purposes only)?” Now, if my friend were going to use this information to gamble, it would be highly unethical. However, since he clearly stated…
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This article is about Andrew Patton from Duke (which was tweeted by NISSSAMSI had this interesting tidbit about the stock market in it: “‘Unfortunately, stock prices are almost impossible to predict,’ Patton said. ‘But what we can look at are things like risk and correlation. ‘For instance, it is well known that a given bundle…
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I was driving home tonight, and I was listening to Kai Ryssdal (my boy) on Marketplace. As he closed the show, he mentioned a graph about the relationship between the Dow Jones average and the media coverage that the economy receives put out by the Pew Research Center. They found that as the economy tanks…
Stats in the Wild 