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The financial turmoil of 2007-?: a preliminary assessment and some policy considerations
(pdf) "All episodes of financial distress of a systemic nature, with potentially significant implications for the real economy, arguably have at their root an overextension in risk-taking and in balance sheets in good times, masked by the veneer of a vibrant economy. This overextension generates financial vulnerabilities that are clearly revealed only once the economic environment becomes less benign, in turn contributing to its further deterioration."
A scholarly, sane, relatively brief, accessible-to-the-layperson, and mostly apolitical look at the current turmoil.
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at 3:31 PM on April 23, 2008
(36 comments)
The leaf tips are turning brown. Are my tulip plants dying?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 7:36 PM on March 12, 2008
(2 comments)
Which cruciferous vegetables should I eat?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 3:59 PM on December 7, 2007
(34 comments)
Is the standalone iPod software (that is, ex-iTunes) no longer available for Windows? If not, where can I find an old copy of the Windows install software?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 8:56 PM on October 6, 2007
(7 comments)
Please, tell me who is winning the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray. Both data and (well-founded and -referenced) opinion welcome.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 7:09 PM on September 8, 2007
(19 comments)
Alexander Cockburn wrote
this. Is it tongue-in-cheek?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 11:03 PM on April 26, 2007
(12 comments)
Did you sit through the insufferable webcasts, via the Microsoft "power together" campaign, in an attempt to get a free copy of Vista or Office 2007? If so, have you received your software yet?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 5:52 PM on March 20, 2007
(10 comments)
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? (pdf)
We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 BC, 0 AD, and 1500 AD for the predecessors to today’s nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today’s national development outcomes. Although our strongest results are for 1500 A.D., we find that even technology as old as 1000 BC matters in some plausible specifications. (
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posted to MetaFilter by Kwantsar
at 10:57 PM on February 26, 2007
(53 comments)
Is AskMe always
this crappy when Jessamyn steps away for 40 minutes?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar
at 9:19 PM on February 13, 2007
(43 comments)
Please help me find two Warren Buffet quotes/articles
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 9:16 PM on February 13, 2007
(5 comments)
How long has MeFi been serving banner ads at the bottom of closed threads to logged-in users?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar
at 4:12 PM on January 31, 2007
(14 comments)
What did Science! write
here?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar
at 10:44 PM on January 5, 2007
(7 comments)
Please recommend a cat5/RJ45/network cable tester to troubleshoot existing wiring.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 12:44 PM on January 4, 2007
(9 comments)
Yet another name-that-song. The beat and guitar sound like the
Theme from COPS mixed with Ace of Base's
All That She Wants, with a saxophone on top.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 5:22 PM on November 9, 2006
(9 comments)
Two Mac questions from a Windows user
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 2:25 PM on October 25, 2006
(9 comments)
I am purchasing a couple of Mac Minis for a little project, and I need legit copies of MS Office 2004 for Mac. I can find plenty of places online selling the "Full, Standard" version of the software, which is what I want, for $125-$175. This is over 50% off list. Are these discounters selling illegitimate copies? Can you suggest a good place to buy this software? I need to purchase it by midnight tonight (we expense software for tax purposes).
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 10:45 AM on September 30, 2006
(7 comments)
Much
of the “jobs of the future” rhetoric surrounding the eagerness to end shop class and get every warm body into college, thence into a cubicle, implicitly assumes that we are heading to a “post-industrial” economy in which everyone will deal only in abstractions. Yet trafficking in abstractions is not the same as thinking...
posted to MetaFilter by Kwantsar
at 7:53 PM on September 7, 2006
(54 comments)
Component (YPbPr) to VGA (RGBHV)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 9:18 AM on August 25, 2006
(3 comments)
Wireless VGA?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 2:05 PM on August 14, 2006
(5 comments)
I need a really good tie storage idea or a place to find a big sheet of thick, high-quality paperboard.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 9:37 PM on August 4, 2006
(4 comments)
Charts.
This page contains many charts.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwantsar
at 7:09 PM on August 1, 2006
(22 comments)
Please recommend an introductory or soft-intermediate applied econometrics textbook that discusses cointegration.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 11:01 AM on July 25, 2006
(10 comments)
I want a box that will hold 2-4 HDs and 2 optical drives, and connect to my laptop via one or more USB cables.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 7:01 AM on June 26, 2006
(5 comments)
I want "send to a new folder" to be on my "send to" right-click menu (XP)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 1:30 PM on June 11, 2006
(12 comments)
Best software to recover a corrupted .pst file?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 11:51 AM on May 5, 2006
(10 comments)
If someone flags a post, is it appropriate for him to put a note in the thread indicating as much?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar
at 12:09 PM on May 3, 2006
(83 comments)
Let me tell you what we're gonna do.
We're gonna put them handcuffs in front of ya. Cut you a little slack. But if you don't start operating, we're gonna put the mother fuckers behind your back, and I'm gonna take this slapjack and I'm gonna start working that head over, you understand? ...you sign this son of a bitch, or I'm gonna hit you again.
Audio.
.pdf transcript.
Full Story.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwantsar
at 11:05 PM on April 25, 2006
(61 comments)
How many forested acres would it take to heat a modest midwestern home in perpetuity?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 11:41 AM on April 24, 2006
(15 comments)
My Outlook backup, my exchange provider, and a mess.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 4:48 PM on April 16, 2006
(2 comments)
Is there a name for the argument or fallacy that states, essentially, that "Everyone is subject to the injustice that I have created-- the fact that you disproportionately bear the burden of this injustice is immaterial."
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 8:03 PM on April 5, 2006
(13 comments)
Commentary Magazine's Gabriel Schoenfeld
suggests that the
New York Times has violated the
Espionage Act of 1917.
Slate's Jack Shafer
remarks that the case is not too far-fetched, while noting that Scott Johnson of
The Weekly Standard seems to have
anticipated the
Commentary article.
via
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at 9:56 PM on March 12, 2006
(6 comments)
Triple-click in my Firefox might be broken.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 8:30 PM on March 9, 2006
(9 comments)
About ten hours
(over the course of two days) and exactly two bloodshot eyes later, it was complete. I had 100 letters to 100 different companies — stuffed, sealed, stamped, and ready to go. I put all 100 letters into the mail on Friday, February 24, 2006 at 9 AM. Now all that was left to do was sit back and wait for a response (or two?)
via
posted to MetaFilter by Kwantsar
at 8:54 AM on March 4, 2006
(62 comments)
Dear Matt: If enough of us bitch loudly enough, will you close signups?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar
at 9:06 AM on February 22, 2006
(161 comments)
Cell phones, changing carriers, number portability and other considerations.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 6:49 PM on February 9, 2006
(9 comments)
Hotels, promotional codes, and less-than-authorized uses.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 2:48 PM on January 30, 2006
(17 comments)
Sinus/smell problem.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 10:54 PM on January 7, 2006
(11 comments)
