Garett Jones of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the art of communicating economics via puzzles and short provocative insights. They discuss Jones’s Twitter strategy of posting quotes and short puzzles to provoke thinking.

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The Abkhaz, the titular nation of the quasi-state of Abkhazia in northwestern Georgia, contrary to popular mythology, don’t actually live to amazingly long ages. First, here’s some background about the Abkhaz, as provided in Georgi Derluguian’s “Abkhazia: A Broken Paradise”.Linguistically and anthropologically, the native Abkhazes belong to the North Caucasian group of peoples that also comprises

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According to economists’ reckoning, the recession very likely ended this past summer, meaning that the U.S.’s national output has begun to grow once again (from a deep trough). But for many households, the direction of recovery has much more to do with job growth, job opportunities, and hours worked. And so, the job watch is on

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By Claus Vistesen: Copenhagen The Eurozone’s current problems are not mainly a result a of prolifigate and reckless spending of government resources in the Eurozone periphery [1]. Even nobel laureate Paul Krugman has begun to forcefully push this argument arguing that the real source of the malaise is the steady build up internal Eurozone imbalances.

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Drawing the Right Lessons from an Obscure tale of Obscure Interest rate Swaps

The Canadian province of Ontario is easily the most populous province in Canada, with a population that’s more than half again larger than the runner-up province, Québec. Ontario has long been a net receiver of migrants, firstly from the rest of the country then internationally. This, has helped keep Ontario’s population young relative to the Canadian average.Canada’s most populous province is

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by Manuel Alvarez-Rivera, Puerto Rico It’s official now: Ukraine’s former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the pro-Russian Party of Regions, was declared elected President by the former Soviet republic’s Central Election Commission on Sunday. Yanukovych prevailed over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko by a relatively narrow but nonetheless clear margin of just under three-and-a-half percentage points in a runoff election held last February 7; detailed results are available in Ukrainian at the Commission’s website and in English at Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine

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Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the market for labor, unemployment, and the evolution of macroeconomics over the past century.

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By Claus Vistesen: CopenhagenI get a list of these on a continuous basis and I thought that you would like to have a look. It is all academic stuff and some are very specific while others are more general. The quality fluctuates a lot too with respect to the lenght and depth

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Latest Working Papers and Articles on Ageing and Economics

by Edward Hugh: Barcelona “If you don’t fully understand an instrument, don’t buy it.” To the above advice from Emilio Botín, Executive Chairman of Spain’s Grupo Santander, I would simply add one small rider: Don’t sell it either, especially if you are a national government trying to structure your country’s debt. In a fascinating article in today’s New York Times , journalists Louise Story, Landon Thomas and Nelson Schwartz begin to recount the mirky story of just how the major US investment banks have been able to earn considerable sums of money effectively helping European governments to disguise their growing mountain of public debt. Wall Street tactics akin to the ones that fostered subprime mortgages in America have worsened the financial crisis shaking Greece and undermining the euro by enabling European governments to hide their mounting debts.

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Just What Is The Real Level Of Government Debt In Europe?

The First Accounting Musc Video produced in Second Life. The song (a parody of “If I Were a Carpenter”) tells the story of two auditors (would-be auditors) in love, who view their relationship through the lens of accounting and auditing. They look for ‘evidence’ of each other’s love, worry about ‘second guessing,’ and wonder if they’ll get ‘sale treatment’ (get married), or only be “borrowed.” An eclectic ensemble cast, “The MACPA Players & Blogger Friends,” was then formed, featuring A-list bloggers and MACPA staff.

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If I Were An Auditor – An Accounting Love Story

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2nd Annual Fallen Heroes Run and Walk

by Edward Hugh: Barcelona Hard on the heals of yesterday’s Latvian GDP numbers we now have news that Estonia’s economy shrank at the slowest annual pace in a year at the end of 2009 as a modest recovery in exports and one-time stock-building helped offset the impact of the continuing decline in consumer spending. In fact gross domestic product fell 9.4 percent, which compares with a 15.6 percent drop in the third quarter, and a 16.1 percent decline in the second one.

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Estonia’s Economy "Only" Contracts By 9.4% in Q4 2009

by Edward Hugh: Barcelona A new kind of battle is going on out there at the moment. In what must surely be a new twist to the old dialectic of blow against blow argument, a combination of the internet age and sophistocated data management software is adding an additional and striking dimension to the current crisis debate, let’s call it the birth of the “charts war”

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Chart Wars

For your reading pleasure, here’s some population-related news links that I thought might interest you.Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Nikola Krastev observes that even though populations are aging, fiscal issues and social isolation is making the lives of the elderly difficult.Turkey’s Today Zaman observes that Turkey’s population is aging swiftly, its elderly population growing more quickly

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My first foray into Second Life was to collaborate on the first ever accounting video filmed entirely in SL.  It was a blast visiting CPA Island to work with the fun and talented blogging and virtual training folks from Maryland Society of CPAs (producers and hosts), Steven Zelin and Edith Orenstein (singers/musicians) and a handful of top accounting industry bloggers (cast and crew). The full list, in no particular order, includes: Dee Day, MACPA conference manager Mike Tobias, MACPA network administrator Bill Sheridan & Tom Hood,  CPA Success  (MACPA)  Dave Albrecht, Concordia College, The Summa   Colleen Cunningham, Resources Global Finance and Accounting Blog  Edith Orenstein, FEI Financial Reporting Blog  Gail Perry, managing editor, AccountingWEB   Tom Selling, The Accounting Onion  Darla Sycamore, IFRS News and Views   Mark Jankowski, Shapiro Negotiations Institute Steven Zelin, ” The Singing CPA ” Mine was a bit part (I’m kinda shy, actually–I’m the blond on the right) but it was very cool being a part of this production, and learning how to get around SL.  I am an absolute convert appreciating the platform’s ability to effectively engage a virtual audience in meetings and webinars! Kudos to Maryland Society for building what they’ve built! This accounting-related song parody ”If I Were An Auditor” was written by Edith Orenstein to the tune of Bobby Darin’s romantic 1966 hit “If I Were a Carpenter.” She and Steven Zelin, better known as The Singing CPA, did the vocals for the video. Steven, whom I’ve featured on this blog before , has recorded four CDs of accounting parodies and children’s music

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A Little Valentine’s Day Accounting Humor & Playing on Second Life

CLICK ‘MORE INFO ‘ABOVE, THEN SCROLL DOWN FOR LYRICS to the first ever ‘music video’ about accounting filmed in Second Life. Song parody, “If I Were an Auditor,” based on “If I Were a Carpenter.” Produced by the Maryland Association of CPAs, www.macpa.org, Tom Hood, Executive Director & CEO. Musical co-directors Steven Zelin (“The Singing CPA” ) http and Edith Orenstein, Financial Executives International www.financialexecutives.org

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This will not shock you, not even a little: [The stupid Washington Post ed board] refers to these deals as “free trade” agreements even though an important part of both deals involves increasing protectionist barriers in the form of patent and copyright protection. This increased protection will raise costs and lead to increased economic distortions . Haw haw.

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