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Auctions For Upgrades

posted to Cheap Talk on Wed 22nd May 13

Via the FT:Airlines that offer this either send travellers an email inviting them to upgrade or travellers can go direct to the airlines website.Once youre on their site, rather than them saying, you can pay 400 to upgrade, you can now say, Ill pay 300, explains
I Am Not Related To Richard T. Ely

posted to Cheap Talk on Thu 9th May 13

As far as I know. Anyway I always assumed that the Ely Lecture at the AEA meetings was named after me.But changing the subject, Adriana Lleras-Muney writes to me:From Henry MillerTo be intelligent may be a boon, but to be completely trusting, gullible to the
Consider The Equilibrium: Bulls Vs. Heat

posted to Cheap Talk on Tue 7th May 13

Via ESPN:“Thibs is a guru,” Gibson said. “He understands the game plan. “He had me guarding Ray Allen. That’s how much confidence he has in everybody’s ability to guard on defense. He really drew up and knew what the team

Lets Write This Paper

posted to Cheap Talk on Wed 1st Aug 12

Eight female badminton players were disqualified from the Olympics on Wednesday for trying to lose matches the day before, the Badminton World Federation announced after a disciplinary hearing.The players from China, South Korea and Indonesia were accused of
Love: A Continuous Time Approach

posted to Cheap Talk on Tue 14th Feb 12

Consider a Man and a Woman. Time flows continuously and the horizon is infinite. At time they are locked in an embrace, and every instant of time their lips draw closer. Let be the distance at time , it declines monotonically over time. At each , the two simultaneously
Titles

posted to Cheap Talk on Tue 18th Jan 11

Do you know the name of the first bank in the United States? The First Bank of The United States of course. How about the second bank? The Second Bank of the United States. And after that it seems like every time a bank opens in a new place for the first time

The ivory fortress

posted to Free exchange on Thu 18th Apr 13

ONE of the more interesting responses to this week's Reinhart-Rogoff debate was this, from the economics blog Cheap Talk. "I Move That The AEA Stop Publishing Papers and Proceedings", the post title reads. Then: Non-peer reviewed, inaccessible data,
Links for 04-17-2013

posted to Economist's View on Wed 17th Apr 13

I Move That The AEA Stop Publishing Papers and Proceedings - Cheap TalkReinhart-Rogoff, Continued - Paul KrugmanAugmented inflation targeting: Le roi est mort, vive le roi - Vox EUImprovement in the Outlook? The BIE Panel Thinks So - macroblogHow can the ECB
Links for 04-12-2013

posted to Economist's View on Fri 12th Apr 13

T-Mobile Pricing - Cheap TalkSome New Estimates of Japanese Trade Elasticities - EconbrowserBanks Resorting to Old Tricks to Reduce Capital Levels - naked capitalismThatcherism & productivity - Stumbling and MumblingMonetary Policy In A Liquidity Trap -