Archives for “Economics”

social media for job search by katie laird

Great preso in my opinion on job searching using social media from happykatie. Job Hunt 2.0 – using the Web to find a new career View more presentations from Katie Laird.


Ran into this 2004 economics paper referenced by Wayne Marr on twitter. Several quotes that jumped out at me for a variety of reasons. All economics links added by me. “The foundation blocks of standard finance were now in place, supporting one another.  Investors are rational, prices are efficient, risk is measured by beta and [...]


PC Sales Remain in a Slump No Matter What Morgan Stanley Says

Morgan Stanley says we are near the trough in the decline of computer sales and that it’s going to be all uphill from here. But why? WHY? The article points to no particular reason for the upturn they are predicting beyond “the cycle.” This is about the same as the constant rosy predictions from the [...]



Freakonomics post on bad news for real estate agents


Infosys is talking about branding