Thursday, April 14, 2011

Back to the Future

Today I was looking at some research papers on macro data to prepare for a live TV interview with the BBC and found this report by the IMF that was published this month.

It's interesting to see the predictions they made in 2009 and what has really happened.

In any case, good reading.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

This is Funny

IESE's firewall issues a warning message whenever you try to access websites with keywords on their black list.

Today I was trying to put side-by-side figures on a paper that I'm writing. The problem is that the name of the language I (and most people in Finance) use is Latex.

Well, I googled "Latex side-by-side figures" and boom!

"The page you are trying to see does not adjust to our security requirements and therefore it can´t be accessed directly.

In case you are sure that there is no harmful potential you may go to the page by clicking on the "
Permitir" button."

Blocked!