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Occupation/Title: Estate management
Age: Approx. 2400
Location: Athens
College: Many symposia
Degree: 4th
Investment Style: Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
Interests and Hobbies: Travel, walking, drinking and talking.
Quote: For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
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Posts by Oeconomicus
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And speaking of food trucks ... Grub! The Castle 05/02/2013 10:58:50 PM
I can see there being issues with parking and zoning, but yeah, protecting brickThe Castle 05/02/2013 10:58:41 PM
Don't just do something, stand there! The Castle 04/24/2013 11:50:25 PM
I knew, but only because one time several years ago I discovered that my employeJust the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L 04/22/2013 10:16:32 PM
[i]"I see two solutions. One is to let married people to file as single if theyThe Castle 04/17/2013 10:45:56 PM
Found what I had read about it. It was in a WSJ op-ed about judicial fillibusterJust the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L103/13/2013 10:58:16 PM
[i]"which allows "assault weapons" manufacturers to be sued for the illegal use Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L 03/13/2013 08:46:06 PM
For you, Bru': [url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732433860457832Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L103/01/2013 09:31:08 PM
Famous, huh. I had to look him up on imdb. TV bit/guest part actor and apparent Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L 01/31/2013 08:06:22 PM
The Ted Turner quote in the population and poverty section is priceless. "DummieThe Castle 01/22/2013 09:34:54 PM
Shootings doubled? Victims tripled? What does that even mean? Doubled and tripleJust the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L601/18/2013 12:22:17 AM
[i]“What happened that my Social Security withholding’s in my paycheck just wentJust the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L101/08/2013 09:45:15 PM
[i]"Send in the Clowns"[/i] Tom Friedman quoting James Carville paraphrasing Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L 12/23/2012 11:32:12 PM
"Now, however, the president wants to raise dividend taxes to ordinary income taThe Castle 12/23/2012 11:29:08 PM
[i]"I think Boehner is losing his mind."[/i] Trying to negotiate with this prJust the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L 12/13/2012 04:25:58 PM
Let me know when you find a cat or dog that can express its understanding of andJust the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L 12/08/2012 02:37:50 PM
I've read Heilbroner, but not Skousen. Looks worthwhile. Clever chapter titles, The Castle 12/04/2012 05:05:09 PM
[i]"A multiplier of one means you get just as much GDP, just moving some of it fThe Castle 12/04/2012 05:01:05 PM
A multiplier of one would mean that there is no cost of government spending -- tThe Castle 12/04/2012 12:27:49 PM
I vaguely recall a Marty Feldstein WSJ column from around stimulus time citing oThe Castle 12/04/2012 10:25:35 AM
No wonder our schools are failing our kids -- the administrators at that one (noJust the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L111/30/2012 03:34:47 PM
Seems to me the Autonomy auditors and i-bankers, along with it's top executives/Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) 11/20/2012 10:55:20 AM
There was a story on CBS Sunday Morning a couple of weeks ago about a cuddle busOff Topic - Anything Goes 111/12/2012 11:08:04 AM
Par for the course. Joseph Lowery, who gave the benediction for Obama's inauguraJust the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L311/01/2012 02:20:24 PM
She said it -- "assholes are assholes" -- and proved it, too. What a miserable pJust the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L111/01/2012 02:03:07 PM
As if we needed more reasons to ... love Erin Burnett. :-D Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L 10/24/2012 06:48:15 PM
The value of a Karen Valentine has already been diluted significantly. I demand Post Grubbers Trophy Case 10/19/2012 03:47:13 PM
[i]"but what he said was a bunch of baloney"[/i] I think the word is malarkeyJust the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L 10/17/2012 09:45:44 AM
It's not too late to say it, because it's true, but it doesn't change the facts Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) 10/05/2012 06:17:50 PM
Personally, I think he was thrown off by not having throngs of fans, including mJust the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L210/04/2012 03:34:42 PM
Heh. Excuses-R-Us. Largest inventory, lowest prices. Note, quality varies. Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L210/04/2012 12:04:20 PM
The poster also forgets, in his zeal to bash Meg, that she's trying to rescue thHewlett-Packard (HPQ)110/04/2012 11:14:51 AM
Yet.The Castle 10/02/2012 06:22:12 PM
The Daily Currant, Onion wannabe. Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L 10/01/2012 10:01:52 PM
Not to gloat or anything, but it's 80 and partly cloudy here today (and pretty mThe Castle 09/11/2012 04:49:12 PM
I don't think personal post counts really qualify for grub credit, but you know The Castle 09/10/2012 05:17:13 PM
Yes. Just noting the obvious-to-you-and-me lest anyone else try to blame composiThe Castle 09/05/2012 02:50:53 PM
OTOH, how likely is it that compositional changes might have materially affectedThe Castle 09/05/2012 12:25:20 AM
I think we're talking past each other and not really disagreeing much except on The Castle108/17/2012 11:45:25 AM
Re the 13% decline in the corn crop, I don't know how the ethanol mandate actualThe Castle 08/17/2012 11:42:55 AM
[i]"You don't have a normal property right to the maximum value for your propertThe Castle 08/17/2012 10:21:08 AM
[i]"Your not depriving someone else of their property. You may be reducing theirThe Castle 08/16/2012 04:24:37 PM
[i]"And links aren't redistribution. The person you link to is doing the distribThe Castle 08/16/2012 03:07:27 PM
Distribution (for commercial purposes) of someone else's copyrighted material isThe Castle 08/16/2012 01:51:42 PM
A couple of academic publishers sued my school for copyright infringement for maThe Castle 08/16/2012 11:21:22 AM
Not just linking to pirated copies, but doing so for commercial purposes (i.e. tThe Castle 08/16/2012 09:44:41 AM
I'm pretty sure I said the same thing in the last paragraph of my post, albeit lThe Castle 08/15/2012 10:16:50 AM
Tim, I'm not saying I agree with the Atlantic blogger that unpaid internships arThe Castle 08/15/2012 12:34:14 AM
JMO, but Bob Schieffer has never struck me as the type to "attack" anyone, leastJust the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L 08/13/2012 11:14:28 PM
[i]"Ryan will be the most active VP in our history."[/i] George Will predicteJust the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of L 08/11/2012 03:27:46 PM

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