July 26, 2008
School’s out for summer
On July 27, I will be leaving these shores for the health spas of Martha’s Vineyard, where I will remain until August 28, rejoicing in the company of the nattering nabobs of negativism. This blog will lie fallow till early September. The blogging business is addictive. I have done it non-stop since April 2007 and am overdue for a break (as are those who stumble upon my blog). Cold turkey starts now. Enjoy your summer.
Buiter is learning and practising the art of silence!
Posted by: otto | July 26th, 2008 at 1:06 am | Report this commentYou will be missed. Have a good time!
Posted by: Martin | July 26th, 2008 at 1:55 am | Report this commentThis is a phenomenally good blog. You deserve a long break. Enjoy it.
Posted by: Martin Wolf | July 26th, 2008 at 4:52 pm | Report this commentYou couldn’t have picked a worse time to disappear, though that’s no fault of your own. With the US’ nominally independent central bank now regulating our privately owned mortgage guarantors who may have an equity investment in them by our Treasury, wrathful reason was going to be this taxpayer’s only solace. Now I resort to beer.
Your devoted reader hopes your treatment’s ineffectual and your relapse is tragic.
Posted by: ndk | July 27th, 2008 at 7:02 pm | Report this commentenjoy yr break prof buiter - i barely ever agree with you but find your analysis excellent
Posted by: fi-geek | July 29th, 2008 at 12:16 am | Report this commentFor very light reading you could try Greenspan’s “autobiography”.
What sticks in my mind is the elderly gent’s confusion with the speed with which the financial markets move these day. “Too confusing, and too quick to regulate”. Sounded a bit like an OAP who still thinks he is capable to drive a car.
Wonder what you think about the future of regulation in the financial markets? Judging by current events it seems a new approach to regulation is sorely overdue.
Enjoy!
Posted by: Chris J | July 29th, 2008 at 12:10 pm | Report this commentWillem, Enjoy your holiday! Watch out for the jellyfish (especially if you’re swimming in your birthday suit)
Posted by: when the tide goes out.... | August 3rd, 2008 at 2:29 pm | Report this commentSince you started you supposed on holiday, I’ve seen you’ve posted a large op-ed piece in the FT, as well as an NBER paper today. If only all our holidays were as productive.
Posted by: Balham Bugle | August 7th, 2008 at 4:41 pm | Report this commentVery jealous about the summer location. Enjoy.
Posted by: Summer dream | August 8th, 2008 at 3:33 am | Report this comment“The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.”
Posted by: Alan Blinder.................NOT | August 24th, 2008 at 2:25 am | Report this commentAlan Blinder, Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve
… stated on PBS’s Nightly Business Report
You go Willem!! That was spectacular! Speaking truth to power! And they respond only with the same little snide passive-aggressive junior high debate tactics we’ve all come to know and love.
I’ll have to make a little room in my shrine to Stephen Colbert.
Posted by: ndk | August 24th, 2008 at 6:35 am | Report this comment