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winterspeak.com
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winterspeak.com is a personal blog at winterspeak.com about economics and business. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link winterspeak.com for economics and finance writing on Keynesian views, the Great Moderation, bank reserves and capital requirements, and GDP as a measure of wellbeing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-15
What Hacker News says?
If you agree with this line of thinking: The Great Moderation - http://www.winterspeak.com/2008_07_01_archive.html#150265996... then the real issue is relative rates of consumption.
Comment linking /2008_07_01_archive.html
on “Controlled experiment in futures markets: onions”Submitted Sarbanes-Oxley Working as Planned as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"To those of you all excited about buying on the dip" http://www.winterspeak.com/2008/10/japan-experience.html
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on “Why America Will Remain the Superpower”post keynesianism in a nutshell: http://www.winterspeak.com/
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on “Scott Adams: Shiny Objects”There are two different types of requirements that banks have to maintain: capital requirements and reserve requirements. They are very different things, and reserve requirements aren't the important or binding one. Capital requirements mandate how many assets banks must have relative to their liabilities. If a bank has $100,000 in deposits(=liabilities), their capital requirements mean they must have around $105,00…
Comment linking /2009/12/banks-are-even-more-super-than-i.html
on “Bernanke wants to eliminate reserve requirements completely for banks”Have you read many peer reviewed economics papers? Or even college economics textbooks? They make same arguments about well being, dead weight losses, etc. And they are full of weak assertions and sloppy logic. Peer review can be a process for eliminating error, but it can also be a process for replicating error. Where does your faith in academia economists come from? Have you read a bunch of peer reviewed papers, a…
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on “GDP Fetishism: why GDP is not a good measure of wellbeing”Your view is also antiquidated. Banking is moving target, the technicalities of the reserve system change frequently. In modern banking the act of depositing is completely severed from the act of lending. Banks lend based on capital ratios, availability of borrowers, and the Fed's interest rates. Deposits and reserves no longer matter. Effectively, when you deposit money, you deposit in a 100% reserve account with t…
Comment linking /2009/09/loans-create-deposits-how-banks.html
on “How I Became a Keynesian ”The only blog I like that touches on finance is http://www.winterspeak.com and unfortunately it has been inactive for the past few months (Zimran where did you go?). My taste in anthologies tends towards collections of academic papers selected by an expert in the field - things like "Readings in Database Systems"[1]. I would certainly be interested in stuff of similar quality. I'm not a blogger - I just stay in the…
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on “Startup feedback request: Fractal Press - We publish anthologies of blog posts”
