ugh. SAS is evil. I have to find out why a data series is collapsing, and it makes me jump through the most ridiculous hoops imaginable. This should be easy!!!
grr.

"...an entire nation of intoxicated serial financers who... support endless credit-card binges..."
From "Mortgage Payment Reset: The Rumor and the Reality" by Christopher L. Cagan of First American Real Estate Solutions

AHA! Idiosyncrasies of the PSID, I have vanquished thee! Defeated art thou, never to rise again so long as my program shalt survive!
...until I have to add another variable to my dataset, anyway.

I've just looked over my company's blogging guidelines, and apparently I'm not supposed to mention even exactly where it is that I work. I figure as long as something's set to "friends only" it's okay, as no one I don't know and trust will even be able to see it. I already have this thing set such that robots aren't supposed to read it, so I'm ( Read more... )

My skill at my job is measured by my ability to make a bunch of bumpy lines cluster together.
The scary thing is, I'm proud of that graph.

ugh. tast I have to do now is mindless data entry yet requires extreme attention to detail. brain already fried. feeling useless. Please, can't 5pm come any sooner???

I made a matrix! I made a matrix!
Actually, I made a lot of different matrixes that all do exactly what they're told, finally. Using Stata. Yay!

Ugh. I'm such a mess today. I snapped at one of my economists before lunch because I was having trouble following what he wanted me to do. Then all afternoon I've been creating utter chaos in my program because I can't seem to keep more than 2 variables straight in my head at once. Which means trying to compress a whole dataset just ain't happening ( Read more... )

More Fed news: I found a decent article about the latest release of FOMC minutes ( Read more... )

... and have a lot of time on your hands, take a look at this speech by Federal Reserve Bank Governor Ben S. Bernanke: Implementing Monetary Policy