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Al-Jazeera’s series on French North Africa

I’ve been doing my look at Africa for a few months now, one country a week, and one thing that hits me is that it would be easier if I knew French. I’ve watched four movies with subtitles. At the UIC library, half the books that look good have to go back on the shelf… [Read More]

In which I nearly fall for the anchor pricing trick

I’m not an Apple fangirl, but recently, a client asked me to buy an iPad for multimedia project. I started looking for a bargain, and then, I got paralyzed at checkout. I was told to get at least an iPad 2 with 16 gigs of storage, but then I started thinking – maybe I really… [Read More]

Mali – Bamako

The Africa country-by-country project continues, this week with Bamako, set in the capital of Mali. It’s a seriously weird, seriously interesting movie. There are three main parts to it. The first is a mock trial , featuring the people of Mali versus the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The director, Abderrahmane Sissako, filmed… [Read More]

An economist on life, part II

“My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne.” John Maynard Keynes. Think of it as a luxury good with inelastic demand.

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