Thanks for a wide ranging & interesting talk with Arnold Kling, where I've been reading & commenting for years.
Your comments about MIT (where Arnold went after Swarthmore) compared to U of Chicago were very interesting, especially the sort-of game theory idea of going to MIT undergrad where econ is not their Big Thing, so as to take all the best classes. My own advice to our 3 kids who finished college, and last one about to start, is to push to take the good professors so as be interested in doing a good job of learning.
Your book looks really interesting. I didn't quite understand why you didn't want to Name the Big Corporation of Jake & Jared. Since I worked for IBM in Slovakia, and had a friend from Seattle who had worked for Microsoft, I thought you were describing MS managers and the mandatory overtime, which I was surprised MS was doing -- wasn't them. That other Trillion $ company in Seattle, as noted in your bios & on the nice page of your earlier post on the insides.
I had been hoping you might talk about actual games you like to play, whether older boomer standbys like Monopoly or Risk, or any newer games like Settlers of Cataan.
I think house price changes will depend on mortgage rates, inversely. So the macro focus is on whether rates stay the same or change. If the same, I doubt that most houses (the bottom 60 % in price sold) will go down in price much. I don't care so much about the top 20% -- way out of my range.
Thanks for a wide ranging & interesting talk with Arnold Kling, where I've been reading & commenting for years.
Your comments about MIT (where Arnold went after Swarthmore) compared to U of Chicago were very interesting, especially the sort-of game theory idea of going to MIT undergrad where econ is not their Big Thing, so as to take all the best classes. My own advice to our 3 kids who finished college, and last one about to start, is to push to take the good professors so as be interested in doing a good job of learning.
Your book looks really interesting. I didn't quite understand why you didn't want to Name the Big Corporation of Jake & Jared. Since I worked for IBM in Slovakia, and had a friend from Seattle who had worked for Microsoft, I thought you were describing MS managers and the mandatory overtime, which I was surprised MS was doing -- wasn't them. That other Trillion $ company in Seattle, as noted in your bios & on the nice page of your earlier post on the insides.
I had been hoping you might talk about actual games you like to play, whether older boomer standbys like Monopoly or Risk, or any newer games like Settlers of Cataan.
I think house price changes will depend on mortgage rates, inversely. So the macro focus is on whether rates stay the same or change. If the same, I doubt that most houses (the bottom 60 % in price sold) will go down in price much. I don't care so much about the top 20% -- way out of my range.