Robert's Stochastic thoughts

I have recently been delighted to find comments on this blog from someone named Paul who seems to be Paul Romer himself. He seems to have t...

I can't resist typing this post. I am very sure it is not worth reading (that's why it's here not at http://angrybearblog.com) ...

Here members of AIPAC (often for attribution) assert that it is improper for Barack Obama to criticize AIPAC. It is very important that the...

I think it is almost possible that the Editorial Board of the Washington Post may have decided to stop ignoring reality. To me the editoria...

In Which I Try to Answer a Question asked by Larry Summers as a Joke The LSE held a discussion on Reconstructing Macroeconomics. Brad DeL...

Professor Romer, do you think that Robert Solow has Feynman integrity ? I do. I quote and question "Lucas and his colleagues interp...

Paul Romer and Paul Krugman write that Lucas, Prescott et al had great intellectual integrity back in the 70s but then turned to sophistry...

Paul Romer proposes that economists try to think like physicists . I think he means the same thing Sargent means when he talks about taki...

As usual the posts to which I link are more interesting than this post. Brad DeLong discusses German economics and totally fair uses Kevin ...

Brad DeLong notes that Friedman has few disciples and that Hayek has many in spite of the utter failure of Hayekian macro theory to fit any ...

Now that they have voted no to the Troika's plan, what can Greeks do next ? I see three possibilities. First they can reach an agree...

I have no idea. The Chinese kept growing at an amazing rate while developed work economies crashed then stagnated. Of all the scary though...

This seems to be important http://www.thepressproject.gr/details_en.php?aid=78892

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 ...