The San Francisco Fleet Week and Columbus Day Parade

Posted by on Oct 8, 2012 in Blog | Comments Off on The San Francisco Fleet Week and Columbus Day Parade San Francisco was full of exciting events this weekend.  From the Blue Angels flying overhead (see picture below) to the celebration of Columbus day (see the Italian firetruck and Le Donne d’Italia below).  There were playoff baseball games, 49er football games, and the USA won the American’s cup in sailing...
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Interview in Forbes on Crowded Funding

Posted by on Oct 4, 2012 in Blog | Comments Off on Interview in Forbes on Crowded Funding http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2012/10/04/overcrowding-vs-crowdfunding-the-difference-between-facebook-and-delta-rae/
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Podcast Interview with Tom Dorsey on the Crisis of Crowding

Posted by on Sep 26, 2012 in Media | Comments Off on Podcast Interview with Tom Dorsey on the Crisis of Crowding September 26, 2012. . Chincarini discusses the Crisis of Crowding with Tom Dorsey of Dorsey-Wright Associates.
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Readers & Thinkers: The 1970 Nobel Dies

Posted by on Sep 19, 2012 in Anything Goes | Comments Off on Readers & Thinkers: The 1970 Nobel Dies Dear All- On December 13, 2009, Paul Samuelson died in Massachusetts. Paul was the second Nobel Laureate in economics and a giant in the field. I knew something was not quite right when his secretary told me last week that the interview that we had planned could not be held. This made me sad. I had planned to interview Paul at MIT this semester, but I waited too long. I wanted to ask Paul so...
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Readers & Thinkers: A Nobel Knight Dies

Posted by on Sep 19, 2012 in Anything Goes | Comments Off on Readers & Thinkers: A Nobel Knight Dies  Dear All- Sir Clive Granger died this week at the age of 74. He was known as an econometrician and wrote many wonderful papers to help economists understand the world better. One of his most important pieces was the “Granger-Causality” test. This was very useful to help economists determine if one variable that was correlated with another variable might also cause this variable to...
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