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It's the useful/applicable form of economics without the random sh*t. Anyone feels the same?

Has anybody read the recent book with responses to Lawson?

(from deadspin):

100 chamber gun, you only play once. you choose how many bullets - each bullet gives you a $1,000,000 if you live. How many do you load?

This is my JMP. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

My JMP is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.

My JMP, without me, is useless. Without my JMP, I am useless. I must fire my JMP true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill my identification. I must shoot him before he shoots my main regression. I will...

My JMP and I know that what counts in this job market is not the seminars we attend, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the publication that counts. We will publish...

My JMP is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its identification, its endogeneity, its sights and its barrel. I will keep my JMP clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will...

Before God, I swear this creed. My JMP and I are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my job market.

So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy.

Econometrics.

Krk we journal referees are often hammered on EJMR. Could you please create a separate subforum for referees so that we can fight back? Your urgent attention to this issue would be highly appreciated.

How is Grips?

http://seethroughny.net/payrolls

Look up Smith, Noah S. for 2013, 2014, and 2015. In 2013 and 2014, he made about 160k. In 2015 he went down to 74k. I think they are keeping him on as an adjunct assistant professor so he can continue to maintain his fancy econ prof title while he tweets and writes opinion articles.

Anyone have a go to short, intelligent sounding, response when people ask if, as an economist, you know how to fix the economy?

I get this question all the time from hairdressers etc, I just shrug and say 'it's complicated' but come across as real lame... Anyone have anything better? Something to close the topic as soon as possible but without looking like a fool or being rude

Below is a list of US universities by number of Fields medalists currently affiliated. I thought some would find this information interesting so here you go. Please let me know if I'm missing someone.

Princeton....5
Chicago......3
Harvard......2
Stony Brook..2
Vanderbilt...2
Berkeley.....1
Brown........1
Columbia.....1
Florida......1
Miami........1
Stanford.....1
UCLA.........1
UCSB.........1
UCSD.........1
UIUC.........1
Yale.........1

I send back those cards saying I an a black woman. Hopefully they get in trouble for not having interviews that match their applicant pool.

taking predictions for next year. lets go!

i say romer.

Your advisor is a hack, and so are you!

Just for fun I revisited the "Marin POS" blog, which covered the last Bay Area housing bubble. Here's a house they mocked in 2006, listed at $749,000:

http://marinpos.blogspot.com/2006/12/testing-greater-fool-theory-in-mill.html

That same house just sold for $910,000 last month:

http://www.zillow.com/homes/423-E.-Blithsdale,-Mill-Valley-California_rb/

I'll see if I can find more.

I think many EJMRers would agree.

"All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: Milton Friedman and John Kenneth Galbraith."
Galbraith was 6'10" lol.

Here's some insight:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/neil-macdonald-competitition-1.3444243

How is Grips?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/british-ceos-consider-relocation-after-brexit-kpmg-survey-1474879279

We have a number. 75%. Who gives more?? Who gives less??

BTW, Boris Johnson recently promised that article 50 will be triggered at the beginning of 2017.

Dunno if this has been posted yet

http://andrewgelman.com/2016/09/23/why-doesnt-this-apparent-case-of-plagiarism-bother-me-at-a-gut-level/

Doesn't really weigh in on it, basically just offers meta commentary, but at least draws attention to it

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