Information Processing

See this summary of the Greek debt / eurozone crisis in the NYTimes. Can anyone analyze the implied probabilities for different scenarios b...

If you are enamored of A.K. Barnett-Hart and/or her senior thesis on CDOs and the credit crisis, you might wish to attend the event describe...

A colleague sent me this analysis of recent warming trends. Note in the excerpt below there is an actual prediction, which I have bolded. P...

WSJ Deal Journal : ... We tracked down Barnett-Hart, a 24-year-old financial analyst at a large New York investment bank. She met us for cof...

The New Yorker has a great Ken Auletta piece on the impact of Apple (iPad), Amazon and Google on e-books and the future of publishing. 1. I ...

Below are links to three great blog posts by Rick Bookstaber, now senior policy advisor at the SEC. I enjoyed his book A Demon of Our Own De...

Here's a technique analysis of the GSP-Hardy fight at UFC 111. If you know nothing about jiujitsu, watch this video and you'll get a...

I had a physical today and they measured me at 183 cm. I seem to recall being 184 cm (six foot and a half inch or so). Have I lost height, o...

For junior level positions, see previous post . The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking financial professionals at all levels...

I received the following from the SEC. If you are interested, let me know. There may be more senior positions available with the possibility...

The best reporting on the SEC charges against Goldman that I've found so far is by Felix Salmon at Reuters. See the post I linked to an...

Why did Paulson and Magnetar need to participate in the creation of new CDOs? Apparently Paulson had trouble finding counterparties at the t...

See Felix Salmon for a discussion of the SEC complaint against Goldman. They allege that Goldman violated its fiducial responsibilities in ...

An MBS guy writes: You wrote: "... there may have been motivation for Magnetar to pressure the underwriters to include particularly tox...

Janet Tavakoli pointed me to this WSJ article which covered the Magnetar strategy already in 2008. Tavakoli, and another correspondent (an...

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in... I thought I was done discussing all of this horrible CDS, CDO, credit crisis stuff, b...

This was recommended by a commenter on my previous post. It's definitely worth watching if you have an interest in the financial crisis....

You may have noticed that I've written little about the financial crisis recently, despite having written a great deal about it before a...

Earlier I recommended Masha Gessen's book Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century. In case you haven...

Pity the victims and their families. But also consider how brutalized are the soldiers who participate in this. The arriving ground troops l...

I discovered this video while looking for some course material on determinism and free will. I haven't seen Waking Life, but it looks in...

Here is a draft of my paper with Jim Schombert on University of Oregon GPA and SAT statistics. I posted previously on this research: Cognit...

Today at the preschool I bumped into an old friend who has her son in the same class as my kids. She's a professor in a social science ...

Eggs purchased from female donors at elite universities are several times more expensive. From Aaron D. Levine, "Self-Regulation, Compe...

I finally posted my contributions to the proceedings of the meeting I attended last summer in Crete (see here for talk slides). I waited un...