« Medicare and the new voodoo economics | Main | Iran links »
Assorted links
1. Markets in everything: strange beds.
2. Lawrence H. White joins our faculty. In addition to his economics savvy, Larry is an expert on surf music and Bollywood.
3. Will England lead the recovery due to its monetary policy? I hope you're all still reading Scott Sumner.
4. Secret Ballot: an excellent satirical movie on whether Iranian democracy is savior or farce.
5. $134 billion in bearer bonds; trying to get to the bottom of the story, via Chris Masse.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on June 14, 2009 at 03:41 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
Maybe you guys can get George Selgin to come back. What a team that'd make. Wasn't Selgin originally at GMU and left?
Posted by: anonymous at Jun 14, 2009 4:38:24 PM
I find Sumner very convincing and I don't know why his writings generate so little comment elsewhere on the blogsphere.
Posted by: lzl at Jun 14, 2009 4:49:48 PM
Re the bearer bonds. This is almost certainly a very old con. I last came across it about 15 years ago with respect to so-called Japanese bearer bonds supposedly issued by the Japanese government as part of its "hidden debt". (There was a so-called Japanese "hidden debt" - it just didn't have anything to do with bonds). When I contacted the Ministry of Finance, they said that a) the bonds were fake, and b) they had heard of this scam before and would appreciate any leads to the scammers.
For a bond to have any value it has to have a maturity date, and a stated coupon. I would be surprised if these bonds have a maturity date, and they may not even have a stated interest rate. (The Japanese bonds had neither.)
The way you make money with these bonds is you pledge them as collateral for a much smaller loan. You then disappear with the loan proceeds. The state bunko squad notified of the Japanese bond scam said that the last time they had seen the scam, some years earlier, it had involved Saudi bonds.
Posted by: Acad Ronin at Jun 14, 2009 5:02:28 PM
Congratulations, George Mason, on getting Prof. White.
Posted by: Eric Rasmusen at Jun 14, 2009 5:48:36 PM
Abel Kerevel recommends more Iranian movies at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=5005
Posted by: TGGP at Jun 14, 2009 5:59:38 PM
Tyler - If you're not already hip to them, ask Prof. White about the Mermen.
http://www.mermen.net/
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Aetree%20AND%20format%3Amp3%20AND%20creator%3A%22Mermen%22
Posted by: Gil Stange at Jun 15, 2009 7:42:00 PM
1.There are lots of ppl who are much more crazy about the air jordan shoes than us worldwider .Most of them try and collect all the new jordan shoes ,not just one .It seems that some ppl that they don’t want to run out their nice air jordans for walk or play basketball
Posted by: air jordan at Jun 17, 2009 9:15:45 PM
Maybe you guys can get George Selgin to come back. What a team that'd make. Wasn't Selgin originally at GMU and left?
Posted by: air jordan at Jun 29, 2009 10:39:08 PM
Congratulation your post is excellent !
Posted by: partouche poker en ligne at Jul 17, 2009 9:28:20 PM
regarder gratuitement des extrait de video streaming porno de longues durée et trop bonnes.
Posted by: video at Aug 7, 2009 6:14:06 PM
Someone ask me for the guides about shopping online, they want to the info of jordan shoes, I really be happy to help you. But some else like nike shoes, they said ugg brand is they favorite. At the same time many people like ugg boots much more. So I want to write some shopping guides and info about all the footwear for everybody.
Posted by: jordan at Sep 21, 2009 10:15:42 PM
If you're looking or shopping for Michael Jordan Air Jordan shoes, be sure to check out this site
jordan shoes Home/Wholesale Prada shoes, Gucci shoes, Puma shoes, D&G shoes - Free Shipping. Air Jordan Shoes,Michael Jordan Shoes
Posted by: jordand shoes at Sep 23, 2009 12:20:34 AM
Wholesale air jordan shoes here at the lowest price. Cheap jordan sneakers are prepared for you. Wholesale nike air jordan shoes from us. We supply replica jordan shoes with good quality
Posted by: jordand shoes at Sep 26, 2009 1:57:16 AM
