Research Economist at the Bank of England
Since March 2013 I have been employed by the Bank of England and, as such, am unable to offer public comment on matters that might relate to the work of the Bank or politics in the UK.
I may, at some point, return to blogging here on matters outside the domain of my work; but for now, this blog will remain dormant.
I’ve moved this blog from http://barrdear.com/john/ to the more sensible http://john.barrdear.com. No doubt by doing so, I’ll kill off all my Google ranking. So be it.
I’ve updated the blog to version 3.2 of WordPress (the fullscreen editing of posts is nice). Hopefully there’ll be no problems …
*sniff*
Then again, Urlai also thinks that I’m over 66 years old.
My brother, who clearly has too much spare time on his hands, was yesterday browsing through my Archive page when he discovered that I have published 18 posts that refer to ‘Paul Krugman‘ in some way, but only two posts that refer to ‘sex‘. This, he proposed, suggested either an unhealthy attachment to Professor Krugman, or a most disappointing detachment from fornication.
The present post brings the ratio from a lofty 9:1 down to only 6.3:1, but I fear it may still be too high! Clearly a flood of pornographic material is called for …
The world keeps on changing under my feet. I’ve done a few upgrades on the site — my apologies in advance if anything seems (let alone is!) broken.
I’m playing with my themes.
I’ve just upgraded to version 2.8 of WordPress. Hopefully it will improve the speed of the site.
Also, a search on google for “fiscal multiplier” puts me at number two at the moment. I have no idea why.
I’m not really sure about Twitter. I don’t really see the point. I guess the mobile-phone integration is a step forward, but still …
Anyway, I’ve just installed Twitter Tools so that my Twitter account will get an update when I post a new entry here on my blog.
… when Mark Thoma links to you in the midst of one of his daily “Links For” posts:
(Side Note: I’ve alway’s liked Economist’s View. Mark provides a truely terrifying aggregation of econo-blogo-thought.)