Category Archives: Blogs TNG

Hoisted from archives: Wrapping up 2008: the year of the first blogged financial crisis

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Nicholas Gruen

Since we’re blogging the next crisis, I thought now was a good time to reheat the blogging of the last one. intriguing to think of all the changes, and in many ways how much steam has gone out of blogging, and yet … Continue reading →

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The peacock’s tail

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Nicholas Gruen

Well it’s not that beautiful, but then lots of bird’s tails are not that beautiful. But make a few simple evolutionary rules and somewhere amazing things happen.  Like this website on accommodation in Chester that thinks that if it republishes … Continue reading →

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Peter Faris goes meta

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Nicholas Gruen

While it’s very unedifying when people are stirred up, I enjoy the odd ‘meta’ discussion, or at least thinking about what the right principles are for discussion in the blogosphere. So I was intrigued to see them eloquently expounded in … Continue reading →

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Wrapping up 2008: the year of the first blogged financial crisis

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Nicholas Gruen

I wrote this column for the Fin at the end of the year only to discover that I was on leave. Anyway, it was put in this morning’s Fin in a slightly edited back form. The original is below. Blogging … Continue reading →

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Ranking the economics blogs

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Tony Harris

Congratulations to Andrew Leigh who has scraped onto the list of the top 50 economics blogs. This came as a feed from The Austrian Economists where one of the five bloggers was excited to come in at 38. Marginal Revolution … Continue reading →

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Best wishes to Fred

Posted on June 7, 2008 by Nicholas Gruen

The more assiduous of those in the Tropposphere may have noticed Fred Argy by his absence in the last few weeks on this blog.  Fred went to hospital for an operation and is recovering well.  I’ve just spoken to him … Continue reading →

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Republican proofing Obama

Posted on March 8, 2008 by Nicholas Gruen

Hillary is hopping into Obama any way she knows how. Jonathon Chait takes up the story. The morning after Tuesday’s primaries, Hillary Clinton’s campaign released a memo titled “The Path to the Presidency.” I eagerly dug into the paper, figuring … Continue reading →

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