Tag Archives: Eric Zitzewitz
The Financial Meltdown: Causes, Consequences, and Options
The banking, financial and economic crisis of 2008/2009
Spot Eric Zitzewitz:
Previously: Is weather betting legal if you bundle it with auto leasing?
Is weather betting legal if you bundle it with auto leasing?
Pride Motors, a Boston area car dealer, is advertising the following special:
Lease a car before August 26, and if it’s above 96 degrees at Boston Logan Airport on Labor Day, they will make your first 12 lease payments for you (minimum 36 month lease term).
This reminds me a lot of Jordan Furniture’s “free furniture if [...]
Why did Brad DeLong pick on our Eric Zitzewitz?
Jason Ruspini:
It seemed like Delong interpreted the mere suggestion of 10% interest rates as a veiled attack on the Obama administration. That would explain the unfairly harsh and pedantic manner of his post.
I think that Delong is right to be sensitive on this subject. Trading in Treasuries has recently seemed a bit aggressive and not [...]
Eric Zitzewitz wanna bet with Brad DeLong.
Brad DeLong bended Eric Zitzewitz’s ear, and now our Dartmouth padawan wants a bet:
Brad,
The post you refer to is a follow up post to a post in March that does a similar analysis about the S&P 500.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/quantifying-the-nightmare-scenarios/
In that post (linked to in the post about Treasuries) I make the point about the marginal utility of [...]
My response to the CFTC on event contracts
Here is my response to the CFTC’s “Concept Release on the Appropriate Regulatory Treatment of Event Contracts.” I appreciate this opportunity to help in working towards regulated prediction markets in the US, and I thank the Commissioners for it.
Given the political implications of the rise in commodity prices, this is not the best environment in [...]
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