Weekend Links

. . . are mostly sad: Tim Zinnecker (here at the Faculty Lounge) and Elizabeth Nowicki (at Concurring Opinions) on the death of Tulane law professor Brooke Overby (1960-2009). Larry…
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Weird Stuff From NASA

Like this 1965 photo of the Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator, via Wired Science. The man is in this photo is wearing a special pressurized spacesuit to help scientists study “the…
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Inflation or Deflation?

By popular request, another (earlier) Merle Hazard video:    From the chorus: Inflation or deflation? Tell me, if you can Will we be Zimbabwe Or will we be Japan?  Credit markets came undone And still are…
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Mid-week Links

James Boyle at Techdirt on the AP’s recently released plan to develop a new metadata/Digital Rights Management format for news stories. Robert Shiller on risk management failure as a cause…
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What Does Goldman’s VaR Mean?

Goldman Sach’s recent record profit announcement has been much in the news lately.  See Chart 1 at right (image source CNN).  And in some quarters at least, so has its…
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Thaler On Posner

Last week, I blogged about Richard Posner’s Wall Street Journal critique of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009, Treating Financial Consumers as Consenting Adults, in which he also…
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Weekend Links

Feminist law professor Ann Bartow asks whether Lucia Whalen (aka the “lady who called 911”) should also get a beer.  That might make Al happy, but I vote that we forget the Bud…
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