Dead Seriously.

I will be away from my desk for a bit this week working on a special project (more on that later), and may not be posting too frequently here during that time. However, I want to introduce a new guest author before I get too far along. Because he is currently on the job market and need not have his name attached to some lame Mormon blog, I’ll just call him “Fletcher”, as he is known in the comment section of several posts on this blog.

Fletcher is on the verge of being handed a PhD in Economics from UC Irvine. His fields of specialization are econometrics and urban economics, though I’ve been told that, with the job market being what it is these days, he’d even be willing to teach macro (Boo! Hiss!) if room and board for his wife and kids were part of the deal. Other things you should know about him include:

-To this day, Fletcher remains the only person I know who has actually played water polo.

-Fletcher served a mission to Brazil many moons ago.

-His talents include crashing on his bicycle, sucking all the fun out of economics by focusing on the data, and spouting random trivia from the Star Wars expanded universe.

-Although I won’t say his name here (as mentioned above), he did approve a link to his own site, where you can read more about him and the research he’s done.