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Growth and income
Paul Krugman writes: Apologists for rising inequality often argue that since most Americans’ income has risen despite rising inequality, there’s no reason to complain about inequality other than envy. So it’s worth remembering that we used to expect economic growth … Continue reading
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The MicroPHP Manifesto
As written by Ed Finkler: I am a PHP developer I am not a Zend Framework or Symfony or CakePHP developer I think PHP is complicated enough I like building small things I like building small things with simple purposes I … Continue reading
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Fedora, PHP, and the hash collision
There’s a very good post on Ars Technica forums about testing Linux servers running PHP for the hash collision vulnerability. I tested my Fedora 15 system as described and found that it was vulnerable. Patching the vulnerability, however, seems to … Continue reading
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Testing Blogilo
Trying out Blogilo, a blogging client that came with the latest release of KDE.
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Paul Krugman on British debt history
Paul Krugman writes: I’ve been playing around with the IMF’s historical public debt database, which has long-term information on ratios of debt to GDP. And you really have to marvel, given that historical record, at the deficit panic now so … Continue reading
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Brad DeLong on central banking
Link to the original. The ECB’s Battle against Central Banking BERKELEY – When the European Central Bank announced its program of government-bond purchases, it let financial markets know that it thoroughly disliked the idea, was not fully committed to it, … Continue reading
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Regaining access to WordPress
Just saw this on LinkedIn… Haven’t tested it, but looks workable. The problem: lost WordPress administrator password and no way for WordPress to send e-mail, so the conventional password reset isn’t an option. However, direct access to the database (via … Continue reading
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Paul Krugman on the Lucas project
Link to the original. Lucas In Context (Wonkish) I thought it might be helpful to think of Lucas now in terms of the history of economic thought. By the way, I basically lived through the story I’m about to tell, … Continue reading
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So the jobs really didn’t go to China…
On several occasions, I wrote about manufacturing jobs going to machines rather than to China. Just another piece of evidence on that. Paul Krugman recently did something interesting; he used industrial production data and capacity utilization data to obtain an … Continue reading
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Paul Krugman on old and new Keynesianism
Link to the original. How Much Hoc to Add? (Wonkish and Methodological) Mark Thoma objects to Tyler Cowen’s attempt to pigeonhole some of us as “Old New Keynesians”, and makes the case for flexibility in use of models. Indeed. But … Continue reading
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