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Leverage and sticky prices — am I wrong?

RSJ, whose excellent blog is windyanabasis, takes issue with my claim that financial leverage is a source of sticky prices. Not only that, but he’s performed an impressive experiment to test and disprove the hypothesis. Check it out. I am not persuaded that I am wrong, for reasons that I describe in a lengthy comment. But [...]
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Tiger Woods - Not the Daddy!

Pop Culture / Celebrity : TMZ.com (3 years ago)

TMZ has learned... a DNA test disproves the claim of Devon James -- that Tiger Woods fathered her 9-year-old son. A source handling the situation tells TMZ the DNA test was performed in 2002, as part of "an ongoing child support bat... Read Post

Social Experiment: Unibrow Discrimination [Video]

Technology : Geeks are Sexy (2 months ago)

Youtuber Mark Rober wanted to know if unibrow discrimination is a real thing and came up with a social experiment to test out his hypothesis. Check it out! [Mark Rober] Read Post

Sticky prices, leverage, and Pascal’s wager

Business & Finance / Economics : Interfluidity (2 years ago)

In Keynesian / quasi-monetary of explanations of depression, sticky prices play an essential role. If prices were not sticky, a deficiency of expenditure would just lead to a reduction of the price level, and nothing very bad would ... Read Post


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