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Honey, I'm Home (With a Jab at Occupy Wall Street)!
Financial Rounds went dark over the summer - I spent the time working on research, playing with The Unknown Wife and The Unknown Kids, and riding my bike. But now, I'm back. At present, I'm working...
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It's Not FAAAIIIIRRRR!
I'm probably beating a quickly dying horse, but I couldn't resist. The other day, I was talking with a colleague about the Occupy Wall Street issue, and came down on the side of the protesters, saying...
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Job Interviews Gone Wrong
I just got back from the annual FMA (Financial Manageement association) anual meeeting in Denver. I presented my paper, commented on a few others, set up0 some possiboilities for collaboration (and...
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Tell Us About Faculty Interviews That Went Bad
At the FMA, I talked to several candidates on the market (of course, their opening line was the mating call of the new candidate: "are you hiring this year?"). I feel for them, since I've been there a...
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Random Thoughts
It's been a busy month or so since FMA, so I've been out of touch blog-wise, So her are a few snippets:We're now in the final throes of the semester (only two weeks left once the students get back from...
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The Joys of Customer Service at Dailysteals.com
One of the nice things about having a blog is that it gives me a good place to vent on occasion. Today's been a long day - three classes to teach and met with student for about three hours in addition...
View ArticleRudolph The Red Nose Reindeer Promotes Bullying! (sniff, sniff)
"Santa has ten policies that are very unfair, and Mrs. Claus sets out to correct those policies, and what you just saw, where Rudolph is being treated very very badly, and that should never happen,"...
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Winding Down The Semester at Unknown University
It's Saturday afternoon, and I'm in my office writing final exams while the rest of the Unknown Family is one state away at a nephew's birthday part.So that means it must be the end of the semester.I...
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Who's Next In The Dictator Dead Pool
I woke up this morning to hear that the malevolent dwarf in North Korea just cured himself of that pesky little oxygen addiction. It's tasteless, I know, but this is the first thing that went through...
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Stuck In Grading
Ah, all classes are done, and my finals have been taken. Unfortunately, I had a rather large group in my principles class, and they had a long final - 73 students and a final with 25 multiple choice...
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Congresscritters Aren't Like The Rest Of Us
This last few weeks, we've heard a lot about research conducted by Ziobrowski et. al. (see here and here) on the possibility of informed trading by Senators and Congressmen. Based on abnormal returns...
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The Semester Goes Out Not With a Bang, But With a Whimper
I was just commenting to the Unknown Wife how this semester was ending going so well compared to previous ones - my student managed investment fund presentation was done a day earlier than usual, my...
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Fly Away, Little One. Be Free!
It's been a good couple of days:Yesterday, we just got a very good sized check from the IRS (we'd let some things slide when the Unknown Son was sick, and finally got things straightened out a few...
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Someone Need an A$$ Whoopin?
This reminded me of my childhood. My father's "weapon of choice" was his slipper. That may sound funny, but he could really whip that thing. Different times.I swear, one time he made that thing go...
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The 7 Habits of Spectactularly Unsuccessful Executives (and Deans)
Just came across this article (The 7 habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives) in Forbes. It seems like the same characteristics can be applied to Deans (and College Presidents), since they're...
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Department of "What Were They Thinking?"
I'm back. Unknown University has a new initiative. They want to encourage more "interdisciplinary" research. So, they're trying to hire in groups centered around "big" topics. So what do they call...
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Cat Abuse and Technology - Be Still, My Heart
A Dutch artist named Bart Hansen recently decided to memorialize his dead cat (Orville) in an unusual way - by turning it into a remote-controlled helicopter. Jansen said that Oville always loved...
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But I'm Not Dead
It's been almost a year since I last posted. And a lot has happened at Unknown University since then. I'm waiting to hear from the University P&T Committee and the Provost on my tenure case...
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Student Loans Are Diving Underwater
The student loan market has a lot of factors that seem to say "Stay the heck away!": they're relatively easy to qualify for, college costs have increased far more rapidly than general consumer prices,...
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How Students Can Write Better Assignments
I'm finishing up the semester, and am in the middle of grading about 20 write-ups that my students had to do for a case we covered in class. The case was involved a venture capitalist offering an...
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