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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves.
Paris to Tax Empty Offices at 20-40% of Rental Value; Price Crash On the Way The ideas from France get nuttier and nuttier as time goes by. Via translation from Les Echos, please consider Paris Will Tax Empty Offices . The Paris City Council approved Tuesday a tax on commercial vacant properties.
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Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes PNAS 2014 : 1402786111v1-201402786. Eli’s POV is that this was pitched to the freakonomics crowd masquerading as journalists who were happy to roll with it. There are, as they say, issues, and Eli will simply outsource those to Jeremy Freese , Andrew  Gelman , Harold Brooks and Bob  O’Hara . Bottom line, as Brooks points out is that these clowns are building a model for a fictitious, but churn baiting effect. Why churn