Jon Faust
mostly economics

Who?

In Jan. 2012, I began a postion as special adviser to the Federl Reserve Board. More details are provided in the Fed's press release.

I am on leave from Johns Hopkins University, where I am the Louis J. Maccini Professor of Economics and serve as Director of the Center for Financial Economics … » more CFE

Up to now, this site has existed to help distribute my research and to provide an outlet for my sense of humor, such as it is. The frequency of updating of this site was one of the minor casualties during the crisis and updating will probably grind to a halt entirely as I take up this new position.

Policy Issues

• Checks and Balances at the Fed; Jon Faust; Wall Street Journal Digital Network, May 10, 2010.
  »get it from WSJ Digital Network
• Caveat emptor is not a business plan; Jon Faust; NYTimes online, April 26, 2010.
  »get it from NYTimes online

Some recent work

Hopkins

• Recent national champions: [sticks|chains]
• A great educator
• Fight song [text|audio]
• Google ‘“Wes Craven” “Wolf Blitzer”’.
• John Barry's Great Influenza has a cool discussion of Hopkins circa 1900.

Stuff

• Joys of teaching statistics
• Doing powerpoint properly.
• INTERCAL manual, Note the COME FROM command.
• Streaming Knuth on notation and, well, everything else.
• Streaming Feyman on physics and Newton's observations on observational equivalence.
• Math history, including mathematicians born in Cambridge, with 2 minor economists.
• Tiling, quasicrystalline [avi], and other practical home improvement skills.
• Another guide to practical quasicrysstalline tiling. Or is that quasi-quasi-tiling?

Cycles

• biking for Obama
• Pathbreaking work, note the price.
• Compute or cycle, why choose?
• slopes of Europe
• Time series of Lance. This article is generating controversy, amusingly, in part about a constant left out of a bi-variate regression. [ criticism][response]