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“Yes, Give In to Your Annoyance, and Your Conversion to the DeLong Side Will Be Complete”

OK kids, I just zapped a total troll comment left on a recent post that had absolutely nothing to do with the post, and involved merely a familiar jab at another economist on a position that I have never endorsed. Am I going down the slippery slope of total fascism in the comment moderation? Let’s […]

This Lady Could Be an Econ Blogger

I just had this conversation with a customer service rep from a garbage removal company: RPM: Hi, I just moved out of my house, and you guys had been picking up from my house, so I want to make sure you know there’s a new owner there. LADY: Well did you call us to switch […]

Yes Virginia, the God of the Christian Bible Is Omniscient

In the comments of my last religious post, some people stated matter-of-factly that the Bible provides different views of God, and that anyone claiming God is omniscient is ignoring the text in favor of a preconceived philosophical notion of God. No, that’s not correct. If you want to say, “God does some crazy sick stuff […]

Crime Bask

Does anyone know where I can get disaggregated crime data that would show how many homicides were related to various types of drugs? Ideally, I’d like to be able to say that during such and such a period, X homicides were due to cocaine-related drug deals, while Y homicides were related to heroin-related drug deals, […]

Military Suicides and Deployment

In the car I heard this short (less than 4 minutes) clip on a new study that supposedly debunks the popular idea that military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan are behind the increase in suicides among members of the military. The NPR guy summarizing the study said, “Long deployments did not increase the risk of […]

The Fruit of Harvard’s Tree

Greg Mankiw writes: As part of our “marketing” effort to get freshmen into ec 10, Harvard’s introductory economics course, the ec 10 staff and I are trying to construct a list of famous alums of the course. Here is the list we have put together so far: Steve Ballmer Ben Bernanke Lloyd Blankfein Ryan Fitzpatrick […]

Private / Government Components of GDP Bask

I want to look at the official GDP stats of the last 10 years and show the breakdown of private/government components of GDP. I went to the FRED website and took Government Consumption Expenditures plus Government Investment to be “Government GDP,” then took the difference between total GDP and that number, to be “Private GDP.” […]

I Would Lose My Inflation Bets If They Weren’t Attached to My Neck…

OK a while ago I made a post where I typed in the prices of various items that I (at the time) bought all the time at the grocery store, such as milk and “Goldfish” crackers for my son. I just spent 10 minutes interrogating Google and can’t find it. Does anyone want to put […]