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Links We Liked!
- At The Big Picture, a repost of an article he first published a few days earlier - but still a great discussion about the recent winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Bubbles happen, my friends.
- Our friend MochiMac at Save. Spend. Splurge. relates to us that France, for some reason, has a minimum wage less generous than their world-famous welfare and unemployment system. Both salt and fresh-water economists have discussed the perverse incentives at play here - here's Nobel Winner Paul Krugman on Eurosclerosis, and here's Casey Mulligan's recent book on [amazon-product text="redistribution and disincentives to work in America." type="text"]0199942218[/amazon-product]
- A week old, but a great piece at Burbed - who decided that San Francisco and San Jose were different metro areas for census purposes? We're sick of losing to you marginal census defined MSAs because an idiot with a slide rule split the Bay Area in half back when oranges trumped silicon.
- Greg at Control Your Cash has way more patience than us (and has seen way more live music; on that point we are infinitely jealous) - and spends a three part article (one two three) setting up a hilarious, yet true point about mutual funds and risk. For those still interested, read the classic piece Statistics is not Math by William Briggs.
- Professor Tyler Cowen is a guy who thinks about lunch way more than you do (and, of course, what exactly is meant by an empty restaurant or a line). Of course, give him credit for updating the old Yogi Berra line, "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
- Free By 50 makes the effort to figure out how much, exactly, offsetting carbon costs (if you're wondering - or, perhaps, if you're trying to do it yourself?). On the green side? Your buddy PK is panel-less even with all of that solar radiation destroying my roof daily. As mentioned in the comments on Freeby50's piece, I'm almost ready to get one of the newer class of folding 80-160 watt panels and an old car battery and mess around. Uh... coming soon, another reason not to quit your day job?
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