We’ve been having some quirky Word Press problems over night — including database issues, and some odd admin errors.
The team is working on it, and hopefully, we will be back to normal shortly. More on this later today.
Fresh posts shortly . . .
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Knowing that the vote over the weekend in Greece was really a referendum on Euro membership, a majority of the Greek Parliament said yes to staying. European Finance Ministers meet again on Wednesday to solidify the 2nd bailout package for Greece at the same time hopefully a deal is consummated between Greece and its creditors this week. The Greek 14.5b euro bond that matures on March 20th is up by 2 pts. The optimism that all will be completed and contained AGAIN to Greece has yields lower in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The iTraxx Financial Index is also narrower by...
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January 6th, 2010 at 9:51 am
fun with technology . . .
January 6th, 2010 at 10:03 am
hmm looks like my post on how rational we are got lost last night too.. Just goes to show the truth hurts.
January 6th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Still getting the “error on page” / scripts in movie causing Adobe Flash Player 10 to operate slowly.
Others noted the same problem.
Happens each time I open or return to the main page.
Started a few days ago.
Love the site…but this is annoying.
January 6th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
bman says : ” hmm looks like my post on how rational we are got lost last night too.. Just goes to show the truth hurts. ”
On december 22, via email I reported about that kind of problem, my last email about it:
” Well to be precise about the matter, there wasn’t any links in my first comment, and someone nicknamed DL made a small comment about my comment on the health care plan saying it was good points, his comment was also removed …
and, in my comment about the misery index, there was only 2 links originally, I added 2 more links in my email to you.
Up to you to check if other comments were removed, maybe some quantum tech glitch zapped them out …
By the way, is THE BIG PICTURE blog available on the wireless service of AMAZON’S KINDLE in the U.S., if yes, will it be available in the near future in Canada, along with other text websites. ”
January 6th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Too bad, I was quite profound on the topic of being rational vs. maximizing utility and how the utility maximization paradigm I learned at Northwestern explains things better than the rational assumption you knock. In any case, the bottom line is that it’s tougher to be rational and maximize utility in the absence of good information (another economic assumption being “perfect information”), making transparency the key to healthy markets, as explained at http://paulwilkinson.com/2009/12/10/xbrl-data-tagging-standards-advance-on-two-fronts/#econtrans . Read that, Barry (especially the letter from EDGR), and I’ll forgive you for letting WordPress lose my late-night wisdom! (You might try IntenseDebate, which for all its flaws hasn’t lost anything on my site.)
January 6th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
You still have issues with a flash animation that is slowing your readers..