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Winter AGAIN!! YES!

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Last Night: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven No. 7

Posted by Andrew at 1/16/2010 9:41 AM | Add Comment

Sector Specific Rebounds - sort of ...

Posted by Andrew at 1/11/2010 2:37 PM | Add Comment

Burgeronomics and the Chinese Yuan (slightly wonkish!)

Posted by Andrew at 1/11/2010 8:38 AM | Add Comment

Class 2 Students Working!

Posted by Andrew at 1/7/2010 10:23 PM | Add Comment

WOW - two weeks of no blog posts!

Posted by Andrew at 12/9/2009 7:50 AM | Add Comment

FINALS FINISHED!!

Posted by Andrew at 11/23/2009 9:48 PM | Add Comment

Rain, Finals, and Grading!

Posted by Andrew at 11/15/2009 10:33 PM | Add Comment

A More Thorough Exam!!

Posted by Andrew at 10/23/2009 9:48 AM | Add Comment

Midterms are GRADED!

Posted by Andrew at 10/21/2009 10:42 PM | Add Comment

Family Show Competition - Most Popular TV Show in China

Posted by Andrew at 10/20/2009 7:02 PM | Add Comment

Over 10,000 on the Dow, a year later!

Posted by Andrew at 10/15/2009 4:42 AM | Add Comment

Midterms - Infrastructure in China and Stuff

Posted by Andrew at 10/14/2009 9:37 AM | Add Comment

A Special Internship Preview of the Midterm Exam!

Posted by Andrew at 9/20/2009 6:57 PM | Add Comment

National Day Week Holidays - 60th Anniversary of P.R.C.

Posted by Andrew at 9/17/2009 12:04 PM | Add Comment

On the Road Again - IOWA!!!

Posted by Andrew at 8/18/2009 8:46 PM | Add Comment

DONE GRADING!!! - YES! Laughing!

Posted by Andrew at 6/10/2009 6:40 AM | Add Comment

The Answer to the Hillary Question!

Posted by Andrew at 6/9/2009 7:51 AM | Add Comment

My Birthday - laughing!!! Spent Grading - No worries!!

Posted by Andrew at 6/8/2009 7:50 AM | Add Comment

Question #2 - "The Hillary Question" so The Students say!

Posted by Andrew at 6/7/2009 11:26 PM | Add Comment

Grading is VERY Interesting

Posted by Andrew at 6/6/2009 3:42 PM | Add Comment

Grading, Grading, Grading ...

Posted by Andrew at 6/6/2009 8:15 AM | Add Comment

Clive W. J. Granger, Nobel Laureat Has Died at 74

Posted by Andrew at 5/31/2009 6:28 AM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Bank Card De-laminated!!

Posted by Andrew at 5/26/2009 7:39 PM | Add Comment

Tomorrow I HAVE to Give My Passport ...!

Posted by Andrew at 5/25/2009 5:46 PM | Add Comment

Is the Fed Monetizing the Debt??!! Potential Inflation?!?

Posted by Andrew at 5/12/2009 5:14 AM | Add Comment

Labor Picture is WHAT? BETTER??!!

Posted by Andrew at 5/9/2009 6:57 AM | Add Comment

Money Supply Growth leads to Inflation, Long Run!!!

Posted by Andrew at 5/7/2009 1:20 AM | Add Comment

Another year in Shanghai!!

Posted by Andrew at 5/6/2009 1:00 PM | Add Comment

Springtime in Shanghai!!

Posted by Andrew at 5/3/2009 7:17 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Credit Ratings and the BIG 3 Monopoly

Posted by Andrew at 5/1/2009 6:18 PM | Add Comment

MAY DAY - International Labor Day - The 8 hour work day

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CONSUMERS ARE SPENDING AGAIN!!! Real GDP growth "-6.1%" - Advance Number

Posted by Andrew at 4/30/2009 5:02 AM | Add Comment

TOLLS DECREASE on the HU JIA Toll Road!!

Posted by Andrew at 4/28/2009 9:51 PM | Add Comment

28 Moves and Midterm Written!

Posted by Andrew at 4/24/2009 10:13 PM | Add Comment

Penny Benny (P.B.G.C.) Soon to Be In Trouble - Auto Pensions and Then What?!

Posted by Andrew at 4/24/2009 8:02 PM | Add Comment

Stuck in a Rut, Green Shoots, Glimmers - Euphemisms ABOUND!!!

Posted by Andrew at 4/18/2009 7:26 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

REAL WAGES UP - that's Purchasing Power!!

Posted by Andrew at 4/17/2009 10:04 AM | Add Comment

Innovation rarely comes from Established Companies

Posted by Andrew at 4/15/2009 5:15 PM | Add Comment

China's Economic Growth Soon - Money Supply UP!

Posted by Andrew at 4/13/2009 7:26 AM | Add Comment

Markets UP 1% but We STILL lost TONS of Jobs!?!??

Posted by Andrew at 4/4/2009 9:00 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Computer Updated - YES!!!

Posted by Andrew at 4/3/2009 9:25 PM | Add Comment

Up and Coming Holidays at Shanghai University

Posted by Andrew at 3/30/2009 8:31 PM | Add Comment

THE PLAN!!! PPIP or P-pip!

Posted by Andrew at 3/29/2009 9:16 AM | Add Comment

Real Output down 6.3%, Markets UP 2.3%!!

Posted by Andrew at 3/27/2009 5:09 AM | Add Comment

"Non-recourse Loans" - Another VERY interesting term!

Posted by Andrew at 3/25/2009 4:52 AM | Add Comment

"Toxic Assets" - We Like our Euphemisms, eh?

Posted by Andrew at 3/24/2009 6:47 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Now careful about getting too confident - AS IF!!!

Posted by Andrew at 3/24/2009 5:43 AM | Add Comment

Rainy Shanghai!

Posted by Andrew at 3/23/2009 10:26 AM | Add Comment

Lounging (when not DIVING!)

Posted by Andrew at 3/16/2009 7:27 AM | Add Comment

Can YOU see the bottom? *I* CAN!!!

Posted by Andrew at 3/11/2009 8:35 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Ford is leading GM and Chrysler!

Posted by Andrew at 3/10/2009 8:36 AM | Add Comment

Two Interesting Graphics - "Employment Situation Report"

Posted by Andrew at 3/7/2009 6:45 PM | Add Comment

Productivity Revision - 2008, Same Story as Real GDP - HUGE!

Posted by Andrew at 3/6/2009 7:23 AM | Add Comment

Woke up DIZZY at 4AM - What's up with THE MARKETS?!!?

Posted by Andrew at 3/6/2009 6:37 AM | Add Comment

Warren's STILL got the jokes - a down year but still a profit!!

Posted by Andrew at 3/1/2009 7:24 AM | Add Comment

Real GDP revision - major change from Advance numbers!

Posted by Andrew at 2/28/2009 11:03 AM | Add Comment

Aren't ALL Presidents' Reports "Too Rosy" when issued?

Posted by Andrew at 2/27/2009 10:38 AM | Add Comment

So Just HOW Did Japan do?

Posted by Andrew at 2/26/2009 9:26 AM | Add Comment

Class times always amaze me here in Shanghai!

Posted by Andrew at 2/23/2009 6:04 PM | Add Comment

Fees for Underwriting FDIC debt at Mexico risk premiums?!?

Posted by Andrew at 2/18/2009 7:03 AM | Add Comment

Wind yesterday, closer to adjusting, grading midterms STILL!

Posted by Andrew at 2/13/2009 5:06 AM | Add Comment

Freeware is now into Statistics! "R"

Posted by Andrew at 1/7/2009 8:28 PM | Add Comment

The NEXT shoe? Commercial MBS - wonkish!

Posted by Andrew at 1/5/2009 8:26 PM | Add Comment

Profiting from the Financial Crisis - The 1990s Revisited!

Posted by Andrew at 12/29/2008 1:24 PM | Add Comment

Bloomberg.com: Milton Friedman is rolling in his grave

Posted by Andrew at 12/24/2008 4:08 PM | Add Comment

CPI Falls by a Record Amount!! "-1.7%"

Posted by Andrew at 12/18/2008 7:36 AM | Add Comment

It's a New World!! Fed Cuts Interest Rates to ZERO! (or so)

Posted by Andrew at 12/17/2008 6:35 AM | Add Comment

Dorm Life in Shanghai - An Article from the Local Paper

Posted by Andrew at 12/15/2008 4:11 PM | Add Comment

Third Plenum of the 11th Chinese Communist Party Congress (CCPC) in 1978

Posted by Andrew at 12/15/2008 10:08 AM | Add Comment

Friday Night's KTV (or Karaoke) - Pictures

Posted by Andrew at 12/13/2008 11:25 AM | Add Comment

China's inflation is low ... bordering deflation?

Posted by Andrew at 12/13/2008 8:10 AM | Add Comment

Economics Faculty at SILC, Shanghai University

Posted by Andrew at 12/12/2008 9:36 PM | Add Comment

CDS - Credit Default Swaps, a little primer

Posted by Andrew at 12/11/2008 8:03 AM | Add Comment

U. S. Treasury Bills have a NEGATIVE YIELD (You have to PAY to invest in them)!!

Posted by Andrew at 12/10/2008 4:07 PM | Add Comment

Commercial Paper - Lehman Brothers - Financial STUFF!

Posted by Andrew at 12/10/2008 12:45 PM | Add Comment

FINISHED!!! Still have to travel up to the Ding! ... and phone musings ...

Posted by Andrew at 12/1/2008 7:31 AM | Add Comment

Trying to stay out of Gloom and Doom, BUT ...

Posted by Andrew at 11/30/2008 6:01 PM | Add Comment

THEY CAUGHT ME!!! Only giving 40% only the Final Exam - 60% is REQUIRED! Laughing!

Posted by Andrew at 11/28/2008 5:53 AM | Add Comment

WOW - so here's where the money's gone SO FAR!!!

Posted by Andrew at 11/26/2008 9:33 PM | Add Comment

Briefly the $800 Billion Announced Tuesday

Posted by Andrew at 11/26/2008 8:59 PM | Add Comment

Ramblings and Preliminary Real GDP

Posted by Andrew at 11/26/2008 5:23 AM | Add Comment

Recovery to last Monday morning's level! Whew! Volatility!!!

Posted by Andrew at 11/25/2008 7:16 AM | Add Comment

Grading, grading, grading ... final exams

Posted by Andrew at 11/24/2008 10:04 PM | Add Comment

Final "Normal" Grades are due!

Posted by Andrew at 11/12/2008 5:46 PM | Add Comment

U.S. Government Borrowing - "Treasuries"

Posted by Andrew at 11/11/2008 5:23 AM | Add Comment

Revisions to Unemployment Explained

Posted by Andrew at 11/9/2008 5:43 PM | Add Comment

Bank of England cuts rates by 1.5%

Posted by Andrew at 11/6/2008 9:21 PM | Add Comment

3rd Quarter ADVANCE GDP estimates

Posted by Andrew at 10/31/2008 5:28 AM | Add Comment

Bridge Construction - Long Drives Pictures

Posted by Andrew at 10/24/2008 6:16 PM | Add Comment

Stocks are Volatile! "New" Market?

Posted by Andrew at 10/24/2008 5:30 AM | Add Comment

Midterms GRADED!! Oil price graph

Posted by Andrew at 10/22/2008 6:12 PM | Add Comment

Consumers Stopped Borrowing in August

Posted by Andrew at 10/8/2008 4:58 AM | Add Comment

What's a TARP?

Posted by Andrew at 10/7/2008 5:23 AM | Add Comment

A.I.G. (American Insurance Group) and the reason for the loan

Posted by Andrew at 9/28/2008 6:15 AM | Add Comment

Terrorist Sirens, Hagupit (Cat. 4), Treasury Bills, etc.

Posted by Andrew at 9/24/2008 5:28 AM | Add Comment

THE HAND - now a cast and typing ....

Posted by Andrew at 9/20/2008 7:00 AM | Add Comment

Mid Autumn Festival SILC Party Picture

Posted by Andrew at 9/18/2008 5:50 AM | Add Comment

A phone call on my mobile FROM THE USA!

Posted by Andrew at 9/17/2008 6:01 AM | Add Comment

Not a free fall!

Posted by Andrew at 9/16/2008 5:10 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment
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