Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Here we go again. There is a blog discussion among Keynesian to New Keynesian economists on the cause of the new Classical & Rational e...

Historically distance travelled North South doesn't hurts a teams world cup chances much less than distance East West does -- time zone...

When you say Dylan, he thinks you mean Dylan Thomas. Man he aint got no culture A think which really exists in the world were you live is ...

Tonight I listened to the Rolling Stones perform in the Circus Maximus in Rome. Of course I didn't buy a ticket (180 Euros and sold out...

Yesterday I checked what was happening in the World Cup. I was surprised to find that Iran had held Argentina to a 0-0 tie after 90 minutes...

I was frustrated to learn that I am not the Waldman[n] who has enough influence to be quoted on Fox News by Megyn Kelly. Paul Waldman manage...

Via Jed Lewison at the Daily Kos Last month Kelley Ayotte, John McCcain, and Lindsey Graham wrote "Since we know where Ahmed abu Khat...

As I type and if I recall correctly, the past four world cup goals have been headers. Wilfried Bonny (Ivory Coast) Gervinho (Ivory Coast) E...

It's that number 27%. The well known crazification factor. The fraction of Hispanic Americans who voted for Romney. How do you say ...

Kevin Drum Just revised and updated his prediction of how many people gained insurance coverage due to the ACA Latest Gallup Numbers Con...

Boy did I ever let this comment run away with me. Kevin Drum asked what the hell Michael Kinsley was thinking when he wrote the following ...

Manchination (noun) an clever action violating logic decency and, especially, partisan loyalty leading to Senatorial election. The etymol...

Alternative Title Kentucky Lied Chicken Grammatically correct alternative alternative title Kentucky Chicken Lied. Did you know that Mi...

QOTD "Should Republicans start endorsing plans to give poor people more money? Well, sure, that would be great. It would also be great ...

Chait just wrote a post entitled "Lanny Davis Defending Clinton With Innovative New Media Strategy: Print-outs" "They are...

Keeping up his usual standard of being a better economist than the vast majority of PhD economists, Kevin Drum has an absolutely brilliant f...

I have been clicking Chait self links enjoying his mockery of the very silly centrists who dream of bipartisanship. This paragraph is bri...

Ron Fournier had a huuge day on the internet today. He was declared Wanker of the day by Atrios and caused the ever polit Kevin Drum to w...

I recently discussed recently discussed (again) whether it is reasonable to assume (just as a rough first approximation) that people have r...

This started as a comment on Wren-Lewis too. I discover that he does have a length limit. The methodology used by most economists has cha...