Lars P. Syll

[embedded content]Rubber Soul was the first LP yours truly bought. The year was 1967 and I was ten years old. Fifteen years later I gave it away to another fan of Beatles — my little sister Ulrika. She still takes good care of it!

Like Tears in Rain [embedded content] Rutger Hauer (1944-2019) In Memoriam.

 [embedded content][embedded content] Heroes get remembered. Legends never die.

Qui est Boris Johnson?  [embedded content]

RBC — nonsense on stilts They try to explain business cycles solely as problems of information, such as asymmetries and imperfections in the information agents have. Those assumptions are just as arbitrary as the institutional rigidities and inertia they find objectionable in other theories of business fluctuations … I try to point out how incapable the new equilibrium business cycles models are of explaining the most obvious observed facts of cyclical...

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The biggest problem in science There’s a huge debate going on in social science right now. The question is simple, and strikes near the heart of all research: What counts as solid evidence? … Prominent statisticians, psychologists, economists, sociologists, political scientists, biomedical researchers, and others … argue that results should only be deemed “statistically significant” if they pass a higher threshold. “We propose a change to P< 0.005,” the...

Way on downsouth London town  [embedded content] Still so great after all these years.

Am heutigen Donnerstag wird EZB-Präsidenten Mario Draghi in seiner drittletzten regulären Pressekonferenz vor der Übergabe seines Amts an Christine Lagarde im November wohl klarmachen: Der Leitzins der Notenbank in Europa, der sowieso schon historisch niedrig liegt, wird niedrig bleiben und könnte demnächst sogar noch weiter sinken. Und was hat das jetzt mit den Mieten zu tun? Sehr viel. Der niedrige Zins der Notenbank spiegelt sich im niedrigen Zins auf viele klassische...