Monthly Archives: June 2012

Shouldn’t they have been grading exams or something this past weekend?

                    Wish I could have been there… looks fun!    

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BEIJING: Shanghai stock market closes with a spooky echo of Tiananmen Square | McClatchy Tribune News Service | The Bellingham Herald

BEIJING — The stock market played a strange trick on the Chinese Communist Party on Monday.Whether a cosmic joke or coincidence – or as some wags suggested, an act of God – the Shanghai stock market index fell 64.89 points … Continue reading

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Civically engagement Malian rappers… tragic and uplifting at the same time

Les sofas de la République et le coup d’Etat du 22 mars : Le tout nouveau son « Aw ya to anga lafia! » Cette chanson est l’œuvre des rappeurs, du groupe Tata Pound, Master Soumi,  Ramsès et bien d’autres. Le single … Continue reading

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R code for Problem Set 5…. easy!

competition <- read.table(“C:\\Data\\Econ 135 Gender\\competitivereadingcamp.csv”, header=TRUE, sep=”,”) names(competition ) # first make tables with(competition , tapply(score1 , list(female , treatment ), mean)) with(competition , tapply(score2 , list(female , treatment ), mean)) # now run regression fit <- lm(score2 ~ female … Continue reading

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Faso Kombat from Burkina Faso – great song and video

HT: Elisee

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More indicators of sharp slowdown in Chain’s economy

What seems clear is that China’s economy did not bottom out as expected in the first quarter. It is flirting with real trouble. Yao Wei from Societe Generale says a blizzard of awful data “screams out for easing”. China’s electricity … Continue reading

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Nice intro to China’s economy overall from James Fallows

I have a piece in the NYT Sunday Review section today, on the question many Chinese economists and industrialists are asking themselves but that relatively few outsiders recognize. Essentially it is whether the Chinese system of “guided” capitalism, which has … Continue reading

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