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Hurricane Sandy and climate change

…thermal effects, and eventually by ice mass melting, both through displacement and gravitational effects. Eventually, common nor’easters will suffice to breach Battery Park walls and drown barrier islands. And there…

Gravis Marketing: Polls and Reporting II

…informed than I about polls and pollsters haven’t heard of them. They have a Republican house effect. according to Nate Silver Importantly, Silver only partially removes house effects from his…

On Woodford in Wyoming

…must communicate about how an unprecedented situation will be dealt with. But the part which really bothers me is the discussion of empirical evidence of effects of forward policy guidance….

Monetary Policy Lower Bounds

effects of massive asset purchases separately. Here I will pretend that the only thing the FOMC does is target the federal funds rate, so forward guidance means statements about what…