correspondents.theatlantic.com - 6/18/2009
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This is the second part of my interview with Paul Samuelson. I posted part one yesterday. Part two is a little more all over the place. We discuss fiscal stimulus, the current administration, behavioral economics, the risk of inflation, and...
correspondents.theatlantic.com - 6/17/2009
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correspondents.theatlantic.com —
275 paul samuelson.png I've spent the last six
months, off and on, trying to interview Paul Samuelson....
Samuelson has a long list of accomplishments -- A John Bates Clark Medal, a Nobel Prize -- that I won't try to recap here. But by most accounts he ...
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An Interview With Paul Samuelson, Part One
economistsview.typepad.com - 6/18/2009
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Conor Clarke interviews Paul Samuelson: An Interview With
Paul Samuelson, Part One, by Conor Clarke : ...Paul...
Samuelson ... has a long list of accomplishments -- A John Bates Clark Medal, a Nobel Prize -- that I won't try to recap here. But by ...
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"An Interview with Paul Samuelson"
marginalrevolution.com - 6/18/2009
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marginalrevolution.com —
Find it here , run by Conor Clarke.
Excerpt: Milton Friedman. Friedman had a solid MV =...
PQ doctrine from which he deviated very little all his life. By the way, he's about as smart a guy as you'll meet. He's as persuasive as you hope not to ...
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Interview with Paul Samuelson
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Marginal Revolution —
1. Sushi robots.
2. The market for hugs: not a Bertrand equilibrium.
3. What spelling bee champions have in common.
4. Culture of sexual violence.
5. In defense of weaker copyright.
6. Short video of me speaking on higher education.
7. More from Paul Samuelson; read for instance his bits on Larry Summers.
Lazy Portfolios, or, The Revenge of 60/40
World Beta - Engineering Targeted Returns and Risk —
... diversified portfolio with only 3 ETFs. 1 world equity, 1 bond, and 1 real assets. Doesn’t get much simpler than that.
Anyways, I thought I would update an old post on the performance of some lazy portfolios. You can do your own tests over on Asset Play with more granular asset classes, but I am presenting these below mainly to just be instructive. (Who runs this site btw?)
Completely unrelated but nice interview with Paul Samuleson. Part 1 and Part 2.
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David Frum: The urgent case to reform ...
Samuelson: Fiscal Policy Must be Sustained
Economist's View —
A few excerpts from the
second part of Conor Clarke's interview with Paul Samuelson:
I have a couple of questions about the current
debate. Do you think large fiscal stimulus should be controversial? ...
Would you like to see a second or third stimulus, depending on where you start
counting?
Well, in the first place, the E. Carey Brown
analysis stressed that one shot spending gives you only one-shot response. It's
gotta be sustained. The way we got out of the 1929 Great Depression in the US --
and this happened not only in the US ...
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paul.kedrosky.com 7/6/2009 — A few more quotable quotes from that new interview with 94-year-old economist Paul Samuelson: On Greg Mankiw and Ben Bernanke The 1980s trained macroeconomics -- like Greg Mankiw and Ben Bernanke and so forth -- became a very complacent group, ...
Samuelson on Greenspan
ritholtz.com 7/9/2009 — Today’s quote of the Day comes forth from 94-year-old economist Paul Samuelson on Alan Greenspan:
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But the trouble is that he had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can’t take the cult out of the ...
Paul Tudor Jones - Failure Speech June 2009
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Climate, trade, Obama
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 6/30/2009 — I think the president has this wrong:
President Obama on Sunday praised the energy bill passed by the House late last week as an "extraordinary first step," but he spoke out against a provision that would impose trade penalties on countries that do ...
An Interview With Kenneth Arrow, Part Two
correspondents.theatlantic.com 7/28/2009 — Part one is here. There is one more part to come, which I'll post tomorrow. Part two, which is pasted below, is mostly about health economics. Arrow wrote the definite modern health economics paper -- "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics...
An Interview With Thomas Schelling, Part Two
correspondents.theatlantic.com 7/15/2009 — This is the second part of my interview with Nobel Prize-winning economist Thomas Schelling. Part one is here. In this part we talk very generally about climate change: Why it matters, and whether or not it's possible to reach an...
Guess what? Paul Samuelson hates me
mungowitzend.blogspot.com 11/20/2008 — From the German magazine Spiegel : Libertarians are not just bad emotional cripples. They are also bad advice givers. I refer of course to the views of both Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek. The “serfdom” they warn against is not that of Genghis ...