On December 7 1941, Japanese forces attacked American and British territories and possessions in the Pacific, including the home base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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Pablo Carpintero
- Pablo Carpintero
- your devoted servant, is a happily retired economist, and way too old to mend his ways. Pablo knows that many economists have the perfidious tendency to turn into professional idiots. That's why his rule of life is to be as contrarian as possible, and then some ...
A recent picture of me ...
A guy I have known for almost 70 years
but I'd like to know him better still
Economists ...
who take themselves too seriously tend to be dangerous people. Therefore see http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/JokEc.html, the perfect antidose - whenever the link works ...
Contrarian ?
"WHENEVER YOU FIND YOURSELF ON THE SIDE OF THE MAJORITY, IT IS TIME TO PAUSE AND REFLECT. "
(Marc Twain)
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Genealogy
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is dedicated to most of my nieces who think genealogy is a total loss of time. It is also dedicated to the one who protests she never said that and who helped me develop this blog.
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