The Melbourne Stars' 10 years of Big Bash history is genuinely some of the most hilarious sports in Australian history. Don't do this normally but, a thread:

BBL01: a somewhat conventional semi final loss to Perth, but look at the batting lineup they were rocking, they had Matty Wade at 8. 2/88 chasing 175 until Ben Edmondson (!) takes a double wicket maiden. https://t.co/d4Ld1rJEvu
BBL02: The hilarity begins. Faulkner "captains" as Warne is risking a ban for slow over rates from the H&A stage. Scorchers need three off the last ball and Faulkner bowls a noey. Calamity. As an aside, Alex Keath on debut goes 1-0-27-0. https://t.co/kwoPWJv1L1
BBL03: Stars go 8-0 in the H&A with a NRR of 2.2. Utterly dominant. But it's a knockout 1 v 4 in the semi and you know what happens...Hobart restrict them to 141 and Paine makes 65 as they chase it down easily. https://t.co/O6JKrnMWbV
BBL04: Third time in four years, Stars lose a semi in Perth. Only chasing 145, with KP batting with Luke Wright, nine wickets in hand at halfway, all out 126. https://t.co/HcZKgTtO80
BBL05: Stars win a semi at last! Host the final against the previously hapless Sydney Thunder, KP fires with 74 (39), but are undone by an Ussie Khawaja classic and a last over six by Ben Rohrer as Thunder chase down 177. https://t.co/YxipxvcCjq
BBL06: Fourth time in six years that the Stars lose a semi in Perth. Not close this time. Mitch Johnson takes both openers before a run is scored and finishes with a ridiculous 4-2-3-3. https://t.co/MCm5jU0EZl
BBL07: Conventional failure. A 2-8 record and Stars miss the finals for the first time ever.
BBL08: A derby final, the Stars need 53 off 43 with 10 wickets in hand. What could go wrong? Answer: everything. https://t.co/vsBmrkC4Dn
BBL09: Stars top the table, host a semi and are bowled out for 99 chasing 143. New finals format gives them a second chance but chasing 117 off 12 against the Sixers, they fall well short.
BBL10: needing all four points for a win to make the finals and needing a fast start, the Stars score 72 off the first 10 overs and 105 off the last 10. They do not get all four points. Happy first decade, Melbourne Stars.

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It's Sunday, Fed blackout, am recovering from soccer match, sipping on double espresso, so of course a perfect time to take on Tyler Cowen here. 🙂


Like many people, I enjoy reading Tyler's blog. But there are times (alright, many times) I disagree with him. This is no big deal. I also disagree with myself sometimes (especially my past self). But his recent post left me

What is he trying to say here? After thinking about it for a bit, I think he's critiquing the idea that "running the economy hot" leads to employment *and* real wage gains. Perhaps the former, but only at the expense of the latter. At least, this is what a textbook IS-LM model

tells us if one "runs the economy hot" through increased fiscal stimulus (on consumption and transfers, not public infrastructure investment). If this is what he meant, then he should have just said so, instead of labeling this a "Keynesian" proposition.

In fact, this property follows as a *neoclassical* proposition that is embedded in the IS-LM framework. (For non-economists, note that Keynes did not invent IS-LM; the framework was developed later by Hicks as an interpretation of *some* parts of the General Theory.)

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