Category Archives: Clippings

The top 15 cities for tech startups

Posted on February 16, 2013 by NC

From Infoworld: The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) list measures overall venture capital investment in each respective market to compile its data.

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How much connectivity is too much?

Posted on February 25, 2012 by NC

From InfoWorld: Researchers: Having too many connections weakens networks By Joab Jackson When it comes to connecting networks or other systems together, it is best to have many, but not too many, connections, mathematicians have found. Administrators and network engineers … Continue reading →

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Social Security: a view from the past

Posted on January 15, 2011 by NC

Paul Krugman writes: …in discussions of Social Security it’s often argued that in the program’s early years, nobody could have imagined the increases in life expectancy that have actually occurred, so nobody could have imagined that we’d have as many … Continue reading →

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Paul Krugman on income and longevity

Posted on November 11, 2010 by NC

Paul Krugman writes: I’ve referenced this before, but here’s the Social Security Administration study. Look at Table 4: since 1977, the life expectancy of male workers retiring at age 65 has risen 6 years in the top half of the … Continue reading →

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Smart Grid in China

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Site Administrator

From Institutional Investor: Investors Want to Plug Into China’s Smart-Grid Market 01 Apr 2010 Xiang Ji Beijing’s massive conversion to a smart power grid could just one-up the rest of the world. Savvy entrepreneurs and investors are looking to get … Continue reading →

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Paul Krugman on the problems of common currency

Posted on January 21, 2009 by NC

The pain in Spain… …isn’t hard to explain. Spain was basically Florida, with a housing bubble inflated by both resident and holiday purchases, and now the bubble has burst. But Spain is in worse shape than Florida, for two reasons … Continue reading →

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A dispatch from Turkey

Posted on January 21, 2009 by NC

From Institutional Investor: Turkey’s Military Pension Fund Reaps Windfall Jonathan Kandell 08 Jan 2009 Despite tensions between Turkey’s generals and the moderate Islamic government, OYAK, the military pension fund, has made the most of the country’s pro-business policies. For emerging-markets … Continue reading →

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Eugene Fama should know better

Posted on January 16, 2009 by NC

Brad DeLong blasts Eugene Fama for his manifest failure to understand the investment-savings identity: Fama… thinks that “investment” means “growth in the value of the capital stock.” He simply does not understand what the NIPA investment concept is, or that … Continue reading →

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Dani Rodrik on stocks vs. flows

Posted on January 13, 2009 by NC

Dani Rodrik writes: Suppose you read the following statement: In 2006 the measured economic output of the entire world was around $47 trillion. The total market capitalization of the world’s stock markets was $51 trillion, 10 percent larger…. Planet Finance … Continue reading →

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A blast from the past…

Posted on January 12, 2009 by NC

…from 1989, to be precise. The band is Noir Désir, and the song is called “Aux sombres héros de l’amer”.

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