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26econ.com - Online Economics
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Economics discussed in plain english, plus some other random thoughts.
Recent Posts
New blog
My new website and blog is up at partiallyunexpected.com. I won’t be blogging on 26econ any more, and will gradually re-organise this site to focus on the blog ranking and other useful things. I will be extremely flattered if any of my few loya...
Reformat and reinstall
If anyone is still reading this blog, apologies for the lack of updates recently. My life was undergoing some big changes — my wife and I separated. Anyway, now that things are getting settled down, my energy for blogging is coming back. IR...
Taking a break
Not that I’ve been blogging much recently anyway, but I’m going to take a break from updating this blog for the next couple of weeks. No, it’s not because I’m bad at macroeconomics, just I don’t quite have energy for it ...
This is why I am not a macroeconomist
The main outcome of the credit crisis seems to be that banks are unwilling to lend to each other, or to anyone for that matter. In response, central banks are slashing interest rates. But wouldn’t higher interest rates encourage more lending? S...
Nobel in the age of blogs
Don’t you think it’s totally cool that a Nobel Prize winner has a blog, i.e. a simple and direct way of communicating with anyone who cares to read? In the recent past, access to the thoughts of such great people was much more limited. Ma...
How did I live without Google
If you have a Google account, go check out Google Web History, and see how many searches you’ve done in the past few years. Since June 2006 I’ve searched Google 9,873 times. They also show some interesting stats about your search activity...

