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• "Drunk [repeatedly] sounds alarm"

  posted to Newmark's Door on Tue 28th May 13

  Where some NYC tax dollars go. 

• Good news

  posted to Newmark's Door on Thu 23rd May 13

  "31 Charts That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity"."5 Signs That We Havent Lost America Yet".

• "The Six Most Important Things You'll Learn At Racing School"

  posted to Newmark's Door on Thu 23rd May 13

  "I'm an embarrassingly slow driver, but I was lucky enough to be offered the chance to take part in a two-day race driving class at the Performance Driving Center at Sonoma Raceway and, while it didn't turn me into Mario Andretti, I'd like to pass on some

Most popular posts

• "Collected Advice for the Young Economists"

  posted to Newmark's Door on Mon 28th Apr 08

  Most of these resources are pretty well-known; some of them have even been touted here. But it's nice to have links to them in a single place.And here are Ngan Dinh's own suggestions. (You may remember her name because she has been mentioned on this blog before:

• Different schools of economics

  posted to Newmark's Door on Tue 4th Mar 08

  The homepage for Swarthmore's economics department presents seven "Questions of Economics". The first one is "What activities should governments undertake, and what can be left to markets?""Left to markets"??In the department in

• Still more on the famous file-sharing paper

  posted to Newmark's Door on Mon 23rd Jun 08

  I've posted about the famous Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf JPE paper on file-sharing--and Stan Liebowitz's questioning of it--before (here and here). There's now a third round in the controversy. The German newspaper Handelsblatt has a story today titled "No

Latest posts linking here

• Picture of the day

  posted to Environmental Economics on Tue 5th Mar 13

  If you like this one there are more here. Hat tip: The Door

• How recessions spread

  posted to SCSUScholars on Thu 22nd Oct 09

  A cool graph, illustrating the regional spread of recession by using a graphic kind of like Gapminder to show employment gains and losses in 100 U.S. and 20 Canadian cities. h/t: Craig Newmark. What's interesting is to pull the slider to December 2007. Where

• Energy Expert: Oil Will Fall to $20 a Barrel

  posted to CARPE DIEM on Sat 11th Jul 09

  Respected energy economist Philip Verleger makes case that oil will fall to levels not seen in over a decade.HT: Craig Newmark