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May 18, 2015
While Hogan is criticized for illegally transferring money from the capital to the operating budget, we can see the same thing here in Howard County. New Howard County blogger, Jurgis Rudkus,[^clarkkent] addresses…
May 10, 2015
Last summer, a debate over the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) simmered over and went mainstream. Ex-Im received a temporary reprieve, but it was only that and the debate…
May 9, 2015
I am giving the lesson on tax incremental financing this morning at the University of Baltimore. I no longer teach from slides, but here is the slidedeck I used last year.
May 6, 2015
This is the end of the semester write up on the nonprofit project in my financial management class. Two weeks ago, we were frustrated that we had not yet gotten any feedback…
Apr 30, 2015
Stop trying to frontrun the Fed. There will be no rate change this week. — James P. Howard, II (@howardjp) April 27, 2015 See, I told you so. Now, reading Federal Reserve…
Apr 27, 2015
Here's an update on our greenspace adoption project in public financial management. A couple of weeks ago, we took a field trip to the prospective adoption site. It's half a block from…
Apr 22, 2015
Analytics-as-a-service can improve the implementation of enterprise-level reporting, decision support and intelligence. Scott Beaumont and I present the outline of emerging Analytics-as-a-Service (AaaS) in enterprise architectures. AaaS technology deploys statistical models as…
Apr 20, 2015
For reasons unknown, I can't find a function to transform a matrix into row echelon form in R. There's a function on Rosetta Code for reduced row echelon form in R. So…
Apr 18, 2015
There's been a lot of talk about the Penn State study suggesting there are no Kardashev Type II in 100,000 galaxy surveyed. Some of the conclusions are there's nobody else out there,…
Apr 14, 2015
Yesterday's post needed a picture of a Maryland lottery ticket for illustration. I couldn't find a good one online, so I dropped a dollar and picked one up. So why did I…
Apr 13, 2015
This morning, I watched an episode of Last Week Tonight from last November.[^tense] [^treadmill] This episode, investigating state lotteries, explained how lotteries are sold to the public by showing how they fund…