If you can do this.
HT to Peter Klein at Organization and Markets.
Showing posts with label Fun Stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fun Stuff. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Monday, October 13, 2008
Who's Who?
Two pictures with two guys, one of them is a famous actor and other one is the newly minted Nobel Laureate. Guess who's who?
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Web 2.0 Is this It?
I have heard a lot about Web 2.0 of late and its business potential. I have no clue what it is though. But if the Web 2.0 business model can bring more stuff like this vid, hey, I am totally for it.
This short video is pretty amusing. I, for one, is sick and tired of all campagin stuff ahead of HK's September Legislative Council election. So please sit down, relax, and watch this vid, enjoy!
HT to Division of Labor for the pointer!
This short video is pretty amusing. I, for one, is sick and tired of all campagin stuff ahead of HK's September Legislative Council election. So please sit down, relax, and watch this vid, enjoy!
HT to Division of Labor for the pointer!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Masonomists or the Economists' Gang of Four
From left to right, Bryan Caplan, R Hanson, Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen. All four are economic professors at GMU.
Alex was a graduate student a year ahead of me when I entered GMU's Ph.D. program. He did not have any grey hair then. HT to Arnold up at Econlog for the pointer.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Too Bad This Guy Isn't Applying for the Job of Market Analyst
According to a story in today's HK Standard:
Veteran newsman Robert Chow Yung yesterday publicly declared that he has applied for the director of broadcasting job in answer to what he termed prejudice and discrimination against non-degree holders like himself and six million Hong Kongers.
In an emotional and high-profile announcement, Chow, who is now a businessman and a Radio Television Hong Kong host, named legislators Emily Lau Wai-hing and Cheung Man- kwong as well as RTHK Programme Staff Union chairwoman Janet Mak Lai-ching for discriminating against "many other Hong Kongers who do not have a degree but pledge their earnest efforts to be successful."...
The controversy erupted after the government lowered its requirements for applicants to head RTHK. In contrast to the job's requirements posted last year, applicants will no longer be required to be university graduates provided they have at least 15 years' experience in the media or broadcasting fields.
The decision to lower the academic requirement has also led to speculation the post was tailored for Chow, a talk- show host and former Hong Kong Standard editor-in-chief. The veteran newsman yesterday said he was "more than competent" as head of RTHK because of his 40 years of experience in the industry, including three decades in management.
More here.
Gary's Comment: Too bad Robert Chow isn't applying for the post of economist or market analyst, for according to the latest column of Professor Steven N.S. Cheung, one does not need a degree in economics in order to understand how market works:
认识市场是不需要进大学的。
More here.
Veteran newsman Robert Chow Yung yesterday publicly declared that he has applied for the director of broadcasting job in answer to what he termed prejudice and discrimination against non-degree holders like himself and six million Hong Kongers.
In an emotional and high-profile announcement, Chow, who is now a businessman and a Radio Television Hong Kong host, named legislators Emily Lau Wai-hing and Cheung Man- kwong as well as RTHK Programme Staff Union chairwoman Janet Mak Lai-ching for discriminating against "many other Hong Kongers who do not have a degree but pledge their earnest efforts to be successful."...
The controversy erupted after the government lowered its requirements for applicants to head RTHK. In contrast to the job's requirements posted last year, applicants will no longer be required to be university graduates provided they have at least 15 years' experience in the media or broadcasting fields.
The decision to lower the academic requirement has also led to speculation the post was tailored for Chow, a talk- show host and former Hong Kong Standard editor-in-chief. The veteran newsman yesterday said he was "more than competent" as head of RTHK because of his 40 years of experience in the industry, including three decades in management.
More here.
Gary's Comment: Too bad Robert Chow isn't applying for the post of economist or market analyst, for according to the latest column of Professor Steven N.S. Cheung, one does not need a degree in economics in order to understand how market works:
认识市场是不需要进大学的。
More here.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Monday, February 04, 2008
汪明會
汪明會不是人名, 汪和明是兩位新交的朋友。 會指的是我們上週的首次碰面。 成為朋友全因大家都秉持自由市場的信念。
今後香港自由市場的存廢，就要看他們的努力了。
Angela:
The introductory game theory book which you should bring along with you is called Thinking Strategically by A. Dixit and B. Nalebuff, and a good, solid introductory book you should also bring is Tom Sowell's Knowledge and Decision.
Ming:
The best collection of Hayek's technical economic papers can be found in his Individualism and Economic Order.
今後香港自由市場的存廢，就要看他們的努力了。
Angela:
The introductory game theory book which you should bring along with you is called Thinking Strategically by A. Dixit and B. Nalebuff, and a good, solid introductory book you should also bring is Tom Sowell's Knowledge and Decision.
Ming:
The best collection of Hayek's technical economic papers can be found in his Individualism and Economic Order.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Larry Summers on Sovereign Investment Funds
The link is here, HT to Greg Mankiw for the pointer.
This is the part I like best:
Summers responded with an anecdote about how the Norwegian fund had sold short the shares of Icelandic banks, and the potential political complications those actions raised. Touché, right back! (At which point I turned to the private-equity executive sitting behind me, and said: "He's so sharp they should make him the president of Harvard." The response from the Harvard grad: "This is why he didn't make it as president of Harvard.") (Italics mine)
This is the part I like best:
Summers responded with an anecdote about how the Norwegian fund had sold short the shares of Icelandic banks, and the potential political complications those actions raised. Touché, right back! (At which point I turned to the private-equity executive sitting behind me, and said: "He's so sharp they should make him the president of Harvard." The response from the Harvard grad: "This is why he didn't make it as president of Harvard.") (Italics mine)
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Assorted Links
1. A nice piece on supply side economics by U of Chicago professor A Coolsbee. He is advising the campaign of Senator Barack Obama of Illinois for the Democratic presidential nomination.
2. The Education of Ben Bernanke.
2. The Education of Ben Bernanke.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
難題
Suppose you write a blog, somebody left a message/0r messages in one of your posts. And you all agree to meet for lunch.
The MILLION dollar question is: HOW should one go about organzing it. Yes, you could leave you contact number or your email address, but that's risky when cyber theft and all other threats are daily occurings.
The actual meeting is the easiest part of it all. You could just tell you cyber buddies what color of your outfit is or what book you are carrying with you for easy identification.
明, Angela, ideas please?
The MILLION dollar question is: HOW should one go about organzing it. Yes, you could leave you contact number or your email address, but that's risky when cyber theft and all other threats are daily occurings.
The actual meeting is the easiest part of it all. You could just tell you cyber buddies what color of your outfit is or what book you are carrying with you for easy identification.
明, Angela, ideas please?
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The K.G.B. Is better Than an M.B.A
That has to be the best line I have read today so far. And there is some validity to that statement as well because of the language and other training intelligence agents have to go through. So the spy school may very well be one of the best prep schools for international business.
Other contenders, from the same story include:
-- [I]t should not be surprising that former agents became free-market enthusiasts.
--Mr. Shvartsman suggested that he had F.S.B. backing for corporate raiding, a term that is often more than just a figure of speech in Russia’s bare-knuckle business world.
All of the above is from a story also in NYT about the extensive role fomer intelligence agents have in Russian business today. Read the whole thing here.
Other contenders, from the same story include:
-- [I]t should not be surprising that former agents became free-market enthusiasts.
--Mr. Shvartsman suggested that he had F.S.B. backing for corporate raiding, a term that is often more than just a figure of speech in Russia’s bare-knuckle business world.
All of the above is from a story also in NYT about the extensive role fomer intelligence agents have in Russian business today. Read the whole thing here.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Best Lines I Have Read Today
Politics in the USA is no longer Elephants and Donkeys; it is now conservative Pigs and liberal Bonobos. The pigs are smart but only care about what's in their trough. The Bonobos are polymorphous perverse and great lovers, but will be extinct in short order.
More here.
More here.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Markets for Everything, Laptop Edition
Monday, October 01, 2007
Terracotta Army
This is a very nice photo of terracotta army taken by Chris Lee up at HK Digital Vision. Check it out here.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Greg Mankiw Cited Work By My Co-blogger
This is from Greg Mankiw's blog:
A Reading for the Pigou Club
Here is supply-side guru Arthur Laffer together with coauthor Wayne Winegarden:
Of the two primary policies being proposed to address global warming—the capping and trading of emissions and the taxation of emissions—we favor the taxation of emissions. We suggest that a pro-active environmental policy should include an appropriate carbon tax fully offset by a static dollar-for-dollar across-the-board reduction in marginal income tax rates. If implemented with taxpayer protections, this policy would mitigate many if not all of the adverse economic costs from reducing carbon emissions. (My Emphasis)
Here is the link.
Who's Wayne?
Not only did we attend the same graduate school but we were roomates for about 4 years. Wayne graduated a year ahead of me and we have the same professor serving as our dissertation adviser.
Wayne worked in Hong Kong for a couple of years before returning home to the US.
This is a profile of Wayne.
A Reading for the Pigou Club
Here is supply-side guru Arthur Laffer together with coauthor Wayne Winegarden:
Of the two primary policies being proposed to address global warming—the capping and trading of emissions and the taxation of emissions—we favor the taxation of emissions. We suggest that a pro-active environmental policy should include an appropriate carbon tax fully offset by a static dollar-for-dollar across-the-board reduction in marginal income tax rates. If implemented with taxpayer protections, this policy would mitigate many if not all of the adverse economic costs from reducing carbon emissions. (My Emphasis)
Here is the link.
Who's Wayne?
Not only did we attend the same graduate school but we were roomates for about 4 years. Wayne graduated a year ahead of me and we have the same professor serving as our dissertation adviser.
Wayne worked in Hong Kong for a couple of years before returning home to the US.
This is a profile of Wayne.
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