Hello world

Welcome to "The Emperor's Wardrobe," which I hope will become a repository of my reactions to and thoughts about the financial meltdown, regulation, economics, and whatever else seems appropriate to post to a "professional" blog.

I am currently a post-doc in a school of finance and economics in Australia. I'm an American and my PhD is in Policy Analysis, so I sometimes chafe at the industry friendliness of a finance department and at the remoteness of Australia at the most exciting time to be a policy person who cares about the financial services world.

But blogging is geography-free and I get to say what I want. So here I am.