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Here's a nice comparison of recent bubbles, and a similar graph comparing US to Japanese real estate bubbles. The extension of the green...

Apparently there was more to Summers' resignation than politically correct backlash and rejection of his arrogant management style. One ...

I normally don't agree with much that appears on the editorial page of the WSJ, but in this case I do. Fannie Mae execs are guilty of fr...

This is why Harvard needed Larry Summers: "He pointed out, for example, that while it was socially unacceptable at a great university ...

I just gave this talk at the UO Center for High Energy Physics (PDF slides ). I'm giving it as a colloquium at Washington University in ...

There is an old saying in finance: in the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it's a weighing machine. That i...

Just returned from a visit to RobotGenius world headquarters in Oakland, and a whirlwhind of meetings in the nerve center of the high tech ...

Here is an excellent talk by Nassim Taleb, hedge fund manager and author of the book Fooled by Randomness , which I highly recommend. Taleb...

I gave this talk recently here at U Oregon. There were a lot of graduate students in the audience, which is great. I'm not sure how my c...

Help us beta test our product! We've developed a new way to fight malware (adware, spyware) and clean up infected Windows PCs. Our produ...

arXiv.org, the physics research archive, now allows trackback links to appear on article abstract pages. I often give talks on my research, ...

ZDNet have a nice FAQ discussing what user information Google collects, and what they can do with it. Using identifiers like IP address and...

A nice overview of Turing's life here in the guise of a review of the new biography by David Leavitt. Not surprisingly, Leavitt's b...

John Markoff of the Times has the story behind Bush's pro-science and technology message in the State of the Union address. I think I...

From the Edge.org Web site. It will be a good sign for science if Pinker isn't burned in effigy like Larry Summers. I imagine in some q...

Thanks to Brad Setser for recommending the following paper by economist Dani Rodrik, which describes how China's economy is quite atypi...

Sorry for the lack of posts -- I'm being slowly crushed down by two babies, a startup and physics research! Here are more podcast recomm...

Those creative, enterprising Americans are at it again! They've outsourced boring, low value-added tasks like learning C++ to foreigners...

Says the cover of BusinessWeek. It's a pretty lightweight article (see the amusing graphic How much math do you need to know? ), but in...

We're nearing a new era in particle physics, when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN begins operation, and hopefully we'll fina...

Nice podcast of an interview with former media mogul (now Internet mogul) Barry Diller . Diller recently added Ask Jeeves (which bought its ...

Greenspan seems to grasp the effect of globalization on US wages and inflation. WSJ : Buried in the minutes of the Federal Reserve's Dec...

A yield curve inversion has often been an indicator of recession. However, talk is abundant that "this time it's different" -...

This Times article suggests that speculative currency flows into yuan have dropped off drastically as hopes of a significant near-term reva...

Proponents of industrial policy should have a careful look at the chip industry in Japan for an example of how badly wrong things can turn o...