Flutterby™! : Yoram Bauman update

In the "You have to be kidding me!" department, Yoram Bauman has pointed out that Douglas W. Elmendorf, recently appointed to be head of the Congressional Budget Office, was co-author on a 2005 paper titled Can Financial Innovation Help to Explain the Reduced Volatility of Economic Activity?

Great. Meanwhile, that bailout's doing pretty well, no? Greenwich still has its mansions? Hamptons pretty much booked this summer? Good.

Yoram Bauman also has a new book coming out, The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume One: Microeconomics, Amazon link with his affiliate code intact, Barnes & Noble similarly, though you should order it from your local book store.

And he's putting together a tour in which he'll be in the Bay Area in April or May of 2010, and, Atlanta area folks, he's doing a show with a number of other economists on January 3rd, the humor session of the American Economic Association that will be free and open to the public. In a remarkable showing that he's not afraid of competition from the public sector, he's even invited Obama economic advisor Austan Goolsbee