Sep
2
Subprime 101
September 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Aron Schiff has this nice link to Stephen Cecchetti’s explanation.
clipped from www.26econ.com
FAQs and figures on the subprime issue
I think every man and his dog learned the word subprime recently. I don’t know much about banking and finance, but Stephen Cecchetti, a former director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, knows [...]
Sep
2
Use of Excel to explain basics
September 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Excel has become the workhorse in datamanagement. There are many reasons not to use the package. Flaws incomputations have been documened but for me a bigger flaw is the difficulty to keep your data intact. Changes to data are easily made but it’s very hard to keep track of them. Unfortunately it is a package [...]
Sep
2
Top Economics blogs
September 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Taken from a blog by Aaron Schiff.
clipped from www.26econ.com
10 Economics Blogs
Rank
Blog
Technorati
1
Freakonomics
137
2
Greg Mankiw’s Blog
581
3
Marginal Revolution
582
4
The Big Picture
1345
5
Economist’s View
2661
6
The Becker-Posner Blog
2772
7
Asymmetrical Information
3631
8
Brad DeLong
4296
9
EconLog
4344
10
Cafe Hayek
5726
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An alternative list is provided by CurrencyTrading.net. They posted a list of the top 100 economics blogs.
