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Blog Recommendation

Our former SUU undergraduate, Cortney Rodet, is now a 3rd year Ph.D. student at Florida State.

He posts at the team blog Pure Public Goodness (I love the subtitle "This blog is both non-rival and non-excludable!").

Interesting news there about the murder rate in Sao Paolo, and a quote from a Democrat in favor of limited government.

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Ron Silver Has a New Blog

Ron Silver has started a blog called Silver Bullet as part of PajamasMedia.

Silver is the exception in Hollywood. He may not be conservative or a staunch Bush supporter, but he has been outspoken with his view that a lot of what passes for deep thinking in the legacy media is little better dangerous platitudes amplified in an echo chamber.

He opened by explaining that Chris Matthews behavior about Myanmar tipped him over the edge, and tossed off this pithy quote:

Why does he only play Hardball with views he despises and play hearts with those who agree with him?

Going the Way of the Dodo

Pat Larkin is shutting down his Random Squawk blog. He blames other priorities, which is understandable.

I highly recommend his real options classroom simulation (available on his home page) - it puts the students in the position of movie moguls who have to choose which screenplays to produce or option for sequels before they know how they do at the box office. I reviewed it here on vX a few years ago.

FWIW: Pat Larkin was a Ph.D. student when I was on the faculty at the University of New Orleans. He certainly did one semester of macro with me, maybe two, before heading off into finance. He recently got tenure at Fayetteville State.

Sad News at Mahalanobis

One of the most interesting economics blogs out there - Mahalonobis - has been very silent lately (yes, I'd noticed).

The reason came up today: Michael Stasny, who has been very quiet for months has a real job, and Eric Falkenstein (aka Hedge Fund Guy) has been told by lawyers handling a situation with a former employer to pipe down.

Pity.

Here's wishing them both good outcomes, and a return to active blogging.

REAL Link Whoring

We all joke about being link whores, but I don't think you can really classify yourself as one of those until you accept advertising from something like the cigarette site that made me an offer this morning.

I declined for no better reason than personal bias, so I guess I'm merely a link slut (and probably less libertarian than I appear to be).

Josh Wolf

Josh Wolf was freed today.

There will be a lot of action in the blogosphere about this.

Please keep in mind that, no matter what people say that tries to relate this to alleged  Bush-Cheney-fascism, the very liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Wolf on every single count.

There is no case here; this is just a jerk asserting that his ignorance and self-righteousness trumps the rules that the rest of us play by.

Blog for Non-Conservative Utah

One Utah is a mostly unshrill team blog devoted to liberal and a few libertarian posts from and about Utah: "A Reminder for Those Who Yearn for the Good Old Days" is breathtaking.

Via Schreiner's Media Landscape.

Class Blog Up Again

The blog written by my students is up again.

You can check it out at Tufte's Economics Classes Blog.

Posting and commenting on this blog is part of the students's grade. They are docked points for spelling and grammar, but for poor economics they are just redirected in the comments.

I took a hiatus from this project since April. Doing this requires a class that is neither too small (ten is about the limit) or too large (it's a lot of work with more than 25 to 30). I have had classes outside that range since last spring.

Another Blogging "Economist"

I'm 42, and have an economics degree: so I blog.

It seems like other 42 year-olds with economics degrees blog. This one just happens to be the foreign minister of Bulgaria as well. (If you poke around, there are English bits on there.)

Via A Fistful of Euros. The comments list a number of European ministers who blog, although I can't speak for how many of them are economists. Pity.

Crescat Scententia

Just helping to get the word out: frequently deep thinking liberal arts blog Crescat Sententia has moved to http://www.crescatsententia.net.

Seems they had trouble with an ... um ... capitalist. It's not at all clear to me why they presented said capitalist with an arbitrage opportunity, but he/she apparently took the bait.