We’re getting close to the point where I cover the credit crisis in class, and it’s also almost time for March Madness (even if my UCONN Huskies have soiled the matress to the ext thqt they’ll get an early vacation)). So this comes at an ideal time - the Market Meltdown Game. Here’s the article from the American Economic Association Last August, the University of Chicago Magazine asked Allen Sanderson to create an NCAA-like tournament with four regions, brackets and seeded teams

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Market Meltdown Game

The following piece was originally published in John Mauldin’s Outside the Box E-Letter, Volume 6, Issue 3, December 14th, 2009. John’s email address is: JohnMauldin@InvestorsInsight.com. You can decide for yourself if you are a Ricardian (biased toward emerging markets), a Schumpeterian (biased toward growth, technology and health care stocks) or a Malthusian (biased toward commodities).

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Ricardo, Schumpeter or Malthus? by Charles Gave

A friend just sent this. They call this guy (Robert Muraine) “Mr Fantastic” after the rubber-limbed comic-book hero in the Fantastic Four.

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Amazing Dance Video

Earlier this week, the inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a.k.a the bank bailout fund, released his report on the 2008 rescue of the American International Group (AIG), the insurer. The gist of the report is that government officials made no serious attempt to extract concessions from bankers, even though these bankers received huge benefits from the rescue. And more than money was lost

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Nov. 19, 2009: "The Big Squander" by Paul Krugman

Comparing the Case-Shiller housing index with the unemployment rate for past real estate bubbles shows housing prices declined for a few years after the unemployment rate peaked. This suggests that housing prices will not bottom (in real terms) until well after the unemployment rate peaks

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Housing Prices and the Unemployment Rate

For a number of reasons, I haven’t been blogging much: First off, I’m still in post-semester recovery mode. This happens every Spring - after the semester is over, I need a week or two to decompress, clean out the detritus of the year from my office, and kick back a bit before refocusing on my summer research goals. This time around, between the timing of exams and faculty meetings, it was worse than usual.

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Interestign Times In The Unknown Household