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|Peter Boettke|

I just returned from the 2011 APEE meetings that were organized by Ben Powell.  It was in my opinion that highest quality APEE meeting I ever attended.  Highlights included Lin Ostrom winning the Adam Smith Award, Pete Leeson winning the Distinguished Scholar Award, the plenary lectures by Deirdre McCloskey, George Ayittey, and John Papola, the undergraduate paper competition, the high quality sessions [including a great session on Monday featuring George Selgin and Larry White on the history of the fed with great commentary by both Jerry Dwyer and Jerry O'Driscoll], the graduate and undergraduate students that I met from schools other than GMU, and the stellar performance of the undergraduate and graduate students from GMU.  Congratulations to Ben Powell, and best wishes for his continued professional success.

Upon my return, Simon Bilo has been alerting me to various interviews that have appeared since my trip to East/Central Europe last month.  Here are the links:

http://ekonomika.etrend.sk/ekonomika-slovensko/len-vdaka-dialniciam-nezbohatnete-2.html

http://www.tyzden.sk/casopis/2011/14/buducnost-europy-je-pochmurna.html

There also was a short TV interview, but the link isn't currently working.

You will most likely have to use Google Translator to see what I said. But the journalists did background research on me and found out that I had a quasi-parallel career to my academic one of close to 20 years of coaching basketball at the MS, HS and AAU levels (including a Nike sponsored national team).  So they both surprised me by asking me extensive questions about sports and coaching careers (something all middle aged former high school and college athletes like to talk about --- you know the older we get the better we used to be!).  But I think I surprised them back by successfully spinning the ball on my fingers while they snapped some photos!

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There also was a short TV interview, but the link isn't currently working.

You will most likely have to use Google Translator to see what I said.

[Mario Rizzo]

Ok, Pete. Is that ball really spinning on your finger or is it computer graphics?

[Peter Boettke]

In all honesty Mario, I have no idea if the photographer actually caught the ball on the move from my middle finger to my index finger --- which I did do --- or if the spinning was blurry so they photoshopped the picture for publication. But I spent many an hour learning how to spin a basketball on my fingers when I was between 12 and 20 (because Pete Maravich could do so and he was my idol; I could even spin and then punch the ball into a hoop at the height of my skills). Of course, none of this is useful on the court, but just means you play a lot with a basketball in a lot of ways.

Anyway like Gisele Bundchen what is real and what is photo enhanced is only known to the photographer and the publisher at the moment of printing.

My mis-spent youth --- Pete

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lookin' good Pete. suspiciously, so.

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So they both surprised me by asking me extensive questions about sports and coaching careers (something all middle aged former high school and college athletes like to talk about --- you know the older we get the better we used to be!).

[Mario Rizzo]

Pete,

As far as I am concerned, then, you did it! Wow!

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