Bookmarked at Del.icio.us for 2007-02-27 Meredith Beechey and Jonathan H. Wright: Rounding and the Impact of News: A Simple Test of Market Rationality: Abstract: Certain prominent scheduled macroeconomic news releases contain a rounded number on the first page of the release that is widely cited (tags: 20070226 finance economics behavioral_finance) Greg Ip: Policy Makers At Fed Rethink Inflation's Roots: One explanation for why inflation is influenced less by changes in unemployment is that the American public has come to expect inflation to remain stable. When inflation moves up or down, it is les (tags: 20070226 federal_reserve monetarism monetary_policy economics inflation) Farnaz Fassihi's October 2004 Email from Baghdad (tags: 20070226 iraq bushisms journalism) Jay Rosen: PressThink: Authorized Knower: Farnaz Fassihi's Accidental Baghdad Dispatch (tags: 20070226 iraq bushisms journalism journamalism) Greg Ip: Policy Makers at Fed Rethink Inflation's Roots: One explanation for why inflation is influenced less by changes in unemployment is that the American public has come to expect inflation to remain stable. When inflation moves up or down, it is les (tags: 20070226 inflation economics federal_reserve monetarism monetary_policy) Andrew Northrup: Of course, this is the same Tom Friedman who was telling us at the time that we needed to invade Iraq because we just had to kill some Arabs. We just had to, OK? Something about a bubble or something, too - you had to be there, man, it al (tags: 20070226 iraq journamalism)