Muar Madness!

I felt I just had to share this. Its good to know I can feel so close to home even though I'm in Singapore. (Ok its not strictly home but Muar is pretty darn close to JB)

Funniest Economics video ever!

I was reading through Steven Levitt's blog today when I came across this link to a student video project at Columbia University's Business School. It's a hilarious take on a student's dissatisfaction with the appointment of Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve. For the non-economists, the Federal Reserve is the US' version of our Bank Negara or Singapore's MAS.

The same video can be viewed here.



The video is doubly funny for me because the textbook that the lead singer discredits is the same textbook that I used for my Macroeconomics I module last semester.


Here reproduced for your convenience.

To be fair, I didn't think the textbook was as bad as the singer in the video made it out to be. Its actually pretty good, considering that an average student like myself can understand it without too much mind-numbing effort and concentration.Is there a lesson to be learned from all this? yes. Econs textbooks are so uncool that even fake music videos make fun of them. What is an econs major to do?

The solution?

An elegant, comprehensive and final one.

After my long hiatus from the blogging scene, during which Singapore had elections and hosted the IMF and World Bank, Pluto got downgraded and Grameen Bank (yes, a bank) won the Nobel Peace Prize, I am now back.
Apologies to my legions of adoring fans for my extended leave.
As a small measure of atonement for my grievous sin, I will now link everyone to a magical video that has amazed me no end for the past few days.
Ronaldinho Show - video powered by Metacafe

Now after my exams I got to find time to try that out. (hopefully without breaking my back in the process)