Silicon Valley Bank March 17 Update
First, Silicon Valley Bank was a Federal Reserve member bank. Second, almost no one came back to the actual offices. Continue Reading →
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Iowahawk on Student Loan Default Rates
Dave Burge looked at student loan default rates by Football Bowl Subdivision colleges. Stanford is number 1 with a 0.5% default rate. Continue Reading →
Census Bureau Backs Down
Economics Twitter erupted. Ben Casselman, Jason Furman, and Alex Mas led the criticism. And today the Census Bureau backed down. Continue Reading →
The Kavanaugh Stakes
“The Kavanaugh Stakes.” From the September 28 Wall Street Journal. For your personal use only. Please do not distribute. At 2:30 pm left coast time I removed the link to Continue Reading →
About That Sanitation Worker Earning $285,000 a Year From a Pension
The New York Post was all over the story on February 20. → Reading on, we discover that Eugene Eagan, the garbage hauling agency’s long time director of labor relations, Continue Reading →
Construction at the Palo Alto JCC
Both of my regular readers will know that, at heart, I’m an engineer. I spend my afternoons walking to nowhere on a treadmill at the Palo Alto JCC. And the Continue Reading →
Tributes to Mark Marquess
I have been a fan of Stanford baseball for over 30 years. And Stanford has had one head coach: Mark Marquess (9). Yesterday he coached his last game. I offer Continue Reading →
Rod Rosenstein’s Justice
The following editorial is from the Wall Street Journal. It is copyright © 2017 Dow Jones and Company. Not to be distributed in any way. [bws_pdfprint]
About
GonzoEcon.com contains the ramblings of Dr. Tony Lima. Dr. Lima is a real economist (Ph.D., Stanford, 1980, yes it was in economics). He retired after 37 years on the faculty Continue Reading →
I Am Back
A new article will be up in a few minutes. Looking forward to getting back to writing about one of the subjects I love. Continue Reading →