1. Rent-seeking behavior, and another perspective on the incident. Here's the best narrative.
2. The FDIC lotto.
3. Open access publishing takes off in economics.
4. It is better when the wife is more attractive.
5. American cities with the most Haitians.
6. Are there 700,000 traumatic injuries in Haiti?
4. It is better when the wife is more attractive.
And that often changes as the wife ages….
4. Define attractive.
Re: FDIC Lotto
“The problem here is that healthy banks end up competing with each other to have the largest capital surplus and therefore the greatest chance of being anointed in this manner by the FDIC.”
Not so.
The qualified bank, say ‘well capitalized’ per Part 325 of the FDIC Rules and Regs, and appropriate asset size, etc. that makes the lowest negative bid will get the “prize.” I guess a CA banker calls that “anointed.”
At least “A CA Banker” didn’t blame Booooosh.
When two people marry, there are multiple factors that people desire in a mate (physical attractiveness, intelligence, personality, etc). When you find two people that are unequal in one dimension, e.g. physical attractiveness, presumably they are unequal in the opposite direction in at least one other dimension. When a woman marries a man who is more physically attractive than herself, maybe he’s a jerk or not too smart and these are the actual factors that matter for the marriage, whereas the physical attractiveness account is simply a correlated variable.
@Kevin – A few arguments for the original narrative:
1) A woman wants to be valued for her feminine qualities, one of which is beauty, and when a woman knows her husband is more physically attractive than she is, it assaults her identity.
2) Traits like “personality” are ex-post rationalizations.
3) “He’s a jerk” and “he’s not intelligent” are arguments being made specifically in an attempt to offset the status inherent to his physical attractiveness.
4) There doesn’t seem to be a reason why these traits are only offsetting physical attractiveness, and not each other – presumably any offsetting physical attractiveness performs on agreeableness and intelligence would be also performed at about the same rate by intelligence on agreeableness and physical attractiveness, and by agreeableness on intelligence and physical attractiveness.
Rent Seeking Behavior:
As a teenager I was at the Blackwater Wildlife Refuge in Maryland. The largest Seagull I had ever seen was flying with a fairly large fish. Out of nowhere a Bald Eagle (slightly smaller than the seagull) rammed the seagull from above. The seagull was startled and dropped the fish. The Eagle snatched the fish in midair and began flying as fast as possible with a very mad seagull in pursuit.
As a followup to one of your Haiti links, here’s a rather disturbing case that I read about today: http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=TG9M7DB3E9R8&preview=article&linkid=06cd895c-10fc-4665-b8cc-5937fafa77ea&pdaffid=ZVFwBG5jk4Kvl9OaBJc5%2bg%3d%3d
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