Roenblog:


Bike Ride

Posted in Uncategorized by Roenblog on the October 8th, 2007

Good Hair

Posted in Uncategorized by Roenblog on the October 6th, 2007

Jenny got a new do.  What do you think?

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Good Reads:

Posted in Uncategorized by Roenblog on the October 6th, 2007

Barron’s: Interesting story about the grain markets:  Going With the Grain(s)

WSJ: Beer Problem? Why Price Increases Are Brewing for Craft Beers

The Street: Sell Sell (their all selling? then buy, buy) Six Reasons a Noted Economist is less bullish

All Roads Lead to china: UBS - Is China Export Led?

Slate: Popcorn Is the ethanol boom going bust?

Reuters: U.S. farmers plant more wheat as prices soar

Fall in Milwaukee

Posted in Uncategorized by Roenblog on the October 5th, 2007

To our friends north of the border.

Posted in Uncategorized by Roenblog on the October 5th, 2007

Your currency has appreciated.  You are no longer the other country in North America.  Congratulations!

 Chart of US $/CA $

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Harvest At the Roenfarm

Posted in Uncategorized by Roenblog on the October 3rd, 2007

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Grandma Joy at the field.

Stand Up Economist

Posted in Uncategorized by Roenblog on the October 3rd, 2007

Geeky, but Funny


Interesting reads:

Posted in Uncategorized by Roenblog on the September 30th, 2007

The Stag Hunt: (Slate)

Posted in Uncategorized by Roenblog on the September 30th, 2007

Game theory is fun!

 

 The Stag Hunt The Obscure game-theory problem that explains why rich countires are rich.


As the lines formed down the street outside branches of the troubled British mortgage lender Northern Rock last week, it was obvious enough to a game theorist what was going on: People had decided to hunt rabbits. Bear with me—this will make sense in a moment.
Game theory is the study (by economists, mathematicians, biologists, and others) of situations in which what you do may affect what I choose to do, and what I do may affect what you choose to do. The theory is big on catchy stories with memorable names, but ultimately it is all about mathematical representations of interactive decisions, called “games.” The most famous game of all is the “prisoner’s dilemma,” in which two prisoners must each decide whether to plea-bargain by giving evidence against the other.

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Taco Meat

Posted in Uncategorized by Roenblog on the September 29th, 2007
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