Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Update on BoA severance

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In a recent post, I referenced the decision of Bank of America to give a very large settlement package to two departing executives. Given ...

Social Justice

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Tyler Cowen points out a great interview with the head of a major Slovakian political party on why Slovakia isn't necessarily thrilled...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Epidemiology is about communication

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This article highlights the critical importance of continuing to try and communicate evidence-based medical information : Most pancreatic ca...

Testing teachers

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It has been a while since we talked about education reform but Arnold Kling has a great perspective : Simple formulas can be “gamed.” That i...
Sunday, October 9, 2011

More on Executive Compensation

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I do not agree with the amount of vitriol in the linked post, but Joshua Brown has a very strong set of feeling on the decision to pay two l...

Schlock Mercenary

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It is certainly one of the best science fiction themed web comics out there. It is a new addition to the blogroll. Enjoy!
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Friday, October 7, 2011

Free TV blogging -- Why Weigel Broadcasting may be the best business story that no one's covering -- part I

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[I should start with the disclaimer that all of the information I have about Weigel comes from two sources: Wikipedia and way too many hour...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

CERN disproves global warming!

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I exaggerate but not by much. Jon Chait has a wonderful time disembowelling this piece of bottom-scraping from the WSJ. (The Churchill anal...

Equal time for American Public Media

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Having singled out NPR, I should mention that APM's Marketplace has been doing some extraordinary work lately. Today they ran the best p...

The unhappiest place on earth?

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NPR has an excellent report out on J visas : “You have 300,000 workers come to the US and they’re just lacking in protections,” Costa said....

Response to Comments

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Comments from Trevor : I agree that the logic of this argument is very strong, and it seems to me that the same argument applies to the mora...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

"100,000 Tablets for School Children in New Delhi"

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To be perfectly honest, the original post I had planned for this NPR story was rather critical of Apple, but before I could get around to po...

Market Efficiency

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For a long time now I have been hearing about how markets set salaries based on the productivity and value of an employee. The ideal was th...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Effect Sizes

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I think that this is very insightful: They mistake small truths for large ones, and use the small truth to obfuscate the big one. So, the t...
Monday, October 3, 2011

The danger of deserve

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Karl Smith: On Facebook I think Robin framed the question as “how weak do temptations have to be before they make people less deserving of c...
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