Hey Off-Topic!

Don';t quite know about that field yet, but I am hopeful. DC meetup, I am game! And yeah, I have total plans to move Integral into whatever unit I'm in when he decides its time to fed up.

JH's job is to raise my opportunity cost sufficiently to entice me to jump ship. :p
 
Long Time, no chat, but old Jericho says hi.

Why was I gone? Well, I had to finish some PhD stuff, and I also got very busy because I'm transitioning jobs.

I'm proud to say that the next time I do an Ask an Economist thread, I'll have to edit the title and make it an Ask a Senior Economist thread. In a few weeks I'll be joining the FDIC, and I'll be one of those regulators trying to keep loan behavior honest!

So, I just wanted to say hi again!

Good luck. You'll need it.
 
dont know if joke or serious ::confused::

Erm... serious? :crazyeye: I don't read all off-topic threads, and since I've never seen you talk about it I just wouldn't have made the connection.
 
My first paper is on why fat people locate in cold cities with cheap food.

(serious)

Well, you don't need economy for that. It's just biology. People feel cold, so they instinctively use the best and most insinctive stratgy to keep the warmth of their bodies. And that strategy just happens to be eating more fat so you become fat.
 
@Cutlass: He's keeping the Fed job open for me. No need to compete when we can run a parallel strategy. :p

@JH: look for the Washington OT meetup thread. And of course, congrats on passing all of your field exams and on the new job.

I'm fairly sure the Fed can employ more than 1 economist at a time. :p
 
Well, you don't need economy for that. It's just biology. People feel cold, so they instinctively use the best and most insinctive stratgy to keep the warmth of their bodies. And that strategy just happens to be eating more fat so you become fat.

Yeah but i can prove it with regression

For Science~!

(Seriously its a cute paper with an application of the model Ill be using in my dissertation and its silly but simple enough to be published quickly)
 
JH's job is to raise my opportunity cost sufficiently to entice me to jump ship. :p
GS-13 = 90K a year with full benefits and easy tenure track.
JH is very good at his job.
We clearly should put him in charge of CFC's Accounts Department.
My first paper is on why fat people locate in cold cities with cheap food.

(serious)
Milwaukee baby!
As Drew Carey would say… OHIO!
 
My first paper is on why fat people locate in cold cities with cheap food.

(serious)

Is it a cause or an effect?

How will you address the fat people in the South relative, especially Louisiana, Mississippi, etc...
 
Wow, do you get bonuses on top of that in government jobs?

Depends on the agency and how they are funded, taxpayer or own funded.

Is it a cause or an effect?

How will you address the fat people in the South relative, especially Louisiana, Mississippi, etc...

The model I work with will only hold for largish cities. I can control for climate, food prices, wages, housing costs, and other factors you'd suspect.
 
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