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Class war according to Ellen Schultz

Executives effectively raiding their workers' pension funds, says Ellen Schultz.  Not that it's a surprise.

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Grey border removed in WordPress Twenty Eleven

You may have noticed I've upgraded to the current version of WordPress and changed the theme (WordPress' term for the code that governs the layout and appearance of content at a WordPress blog site) to...

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Christina Romer reviews the empirical evidence: fiscal stimulus works

Next time someone tells you that we know fiscal stimulus doesn't work because we tried it and we still have 9% unemployment, hand them a copy of this talk by Christina Romer.  It reviews the evidence...

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My email

My email address is no longer at Perimeter Institute, since I'm no longer there. My institutional affiliation is with the University of New Mexico, where I'm Adjunct Professor of physics and astronomy....

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Thrift store LP finds: Albinoni oboe from de Vries, Mozart from Radu Lupu

I've been down a rabbit hole of differential geometry and representation theory, as well as doing some work on a review article with a collaborator lately, so apologies for the posting hiatus. A quick...

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Into Africa

It's always romantic and exciting to travel to a continent I've never been to before.  Even in the waiting area at the airport in Atlanta, whence Delta runs a direct flight to Johannesburg, there's a...

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Free concert in NYC: The Bad Plus play the Rite of Spring

For readers, if any, in New York City today, definitely check out jazz trio The Bad Plus playing their arrangement, "On Sacred Ground", of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.  It's free and outdoors at...

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Some interesting reading: 6/20/2013

Amartya Sen on Indian and Chinese economic growth Billy Joel interviewed in the New York Times magazine.  At least check out the photos!  

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Viet Cuong, Moth

For at least a few more days you can stream Moth, by classical composer Viet Cuong, performed, at the Midwest Band Clinic, by the Brooklyn Wind Symphony conducted by Jeff Ball, on Performance Today....

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Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson was initially associated with the ``New Wave" of pop/rock music of the late 1970s and early 1980s (Blondie, the B52s, Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, etc…) that followed quickly...

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