It turns out that the new head of the European Central Bank is another alumnus of the MIT economics department. However, since he got his Ph.D in 1976, he and I did not overlap. The friend who pointed this out said that several months ago there were those who thought that Draghi might become Prime Minister of Italy. So, which impossible job would you prefer?
Nov 12 2011
In which the author predicts an attack in or near Las Vegas. A few weeks ago I made a few optimistic predictions and a few pessimistic ones. My optimistic ones tend to be about how even semi-free markets will solve what otherwise could be big problems. My pessimistic ones tend to about how out-of-control governments...
Nov 11 2011
Tyler Cowen finds the most interesting part of the analysis of Carl T. Bogus (whose name reminds me of the old commercial, "with a name like Smucker's, it has to be good"). Conservatives have big appetites for ideology; liberals don't. There are, of course, taxonomies of conservative schools of thought. People on the ...
Nov 11 2011
It turns out that the new head of the European Central Bank is another alumnus of the MIT economics department. However, since he got his Ph.D in 1976, he and I did not overlap. The friend who pointed this out said that several months ago there were those who thought that Draghi might become Prime Minister of Italy. ...
READER COMMENTS
nzgsw
Nov 11 2011 at 3:24pm
MIT alums at the head of both Greece and the ECB. As a Caltech alum, I wish them well, but I’m accelerating my preparations for a European collapse.
Rick Hull
Nov 11 2011 at 3:44pm
Perhaps someone from JPL can take to infinity and beyond!
tom
Nov 11 2011 at 7:39pm
Given that the chance of failure is 100%, is the choice really where would you rather eat expensive lunches and dinners: Rome or Frankfurt? The answer is Rome.
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