Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Puzzled by the widespread pretense that the Eurogroup negotiations broke down because Greece had refused to accept further austerity I look...

The crisis so far. Negotiations at the Eurogroup of finance ministers between Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and the other 18 brok...

Don't you hate it when you have a great title and no post to go with it. Greece today v Puerto Rico today non post inspired by Pre...

Breaking news The European Central Bank announced an end to Emergency Liquidity Assistance to Greece. This would have been the Troika...

According to greekreporter.com In a poll conducted by Alco for the Greek newspaper ‘Proto Thema’, 57% of the participants said they wou...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called for a referendum in which Greeks could vote to accept or reject the demands for further austerity...

A 16th paragraph (if I counted right) at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth blog is more prominent that a first paragraph here, but ...

Over in a comment thread at mainly macro , I am engaged in a long discussion with the extremely polite, erudite and smart commenter weareas...

After rereading this post from 2009, I decide that I actually like it and think it is still relevant. http://angrybearblog.com/2009/02/wh...

The Priority of Clarity . Though I write with the tools of Lagrange and Bellman, and have not clarity, I am blowing my own horn with a cha...

Recently the academic discussion of whether R&D can occur if competition is perfect has spilled over into the blogosphere. The standard...

with apologies to Jefferson Airplane and Jehovah + One plague makes Nile redder And one plague makes frogs fall And the calf that Aaron ...

Paul Romer is not diplomatic. This post compares David Andolfatto to a physicist who claims to have built a perpetual motion machine. I w...

The Washington Monthly has been publishing a lot of discussion of the idea that Democrats can win back the white working class, which suppo...

Martin O'Malley is running to the left of Hillary Clinton so it has to hurt that he is losing the Daily Kos straw poll to "no fucki...

Benen To that end, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) thought he was making an important point yesterday, addressing the Constitutional Accounta...

"these beliefs hinged and hinge on a firm and faithful expectation that this long run is at hand, or is near, or will soon draw near (t...

Simon Wren-Lewis very frankly discusses his faith in multipliers . Why am I confident that multipliers that result from temporary decreas...

News coming at what is lighting speed for the US Senate The Senate rejected all amendments and approved the US Freedom Act exactly as pass...

Jon Chait on (among others) Paul krugman Jon Chait critiques Paul Krugman Liberal critics reject the honest-mistake explanation. “The I...