Semi-Daily Journal

Matt Yglesias has been on this before, mostly because she is a Harvard grad. Her middle name apparently is the Chinese symbol for 8, so that is the full name.

Brad,

Why are you worrying about this? Could we please instead have some of your good comments on the tiny but historic-level rates cuts where some strange fools react as if the Fed were supposed to have any flexibility to be "juicing"(1) where monetary policy has long since left off and fiscal measures should be in place?

Here we have this unprecednetedly solid Fed authority where only 7 small banks have failed during an entire recession, Greenspan is at his most conciliatory given an impossible imperative from the Executive branch, and you are wondering about peoples' middle initials?

Thank for any thoughts on rates!

(1) [SIC]
"Still, that's a far cry from the sort of aggressive juicing that the central bank's rate cuts are supposed to offer. "
http://money.cnn.com/2003/06/26/commentary/bonds_up/index.htm

Brad,

Why are you worrying about this? Could we please instead have some of your good comments on the tiny but historic-level rates cuts where some strange fools react as if the Fed were supposed to have any flexibility to be "juicing"(1) where monetary policy has long since left off and fiscal measures should be in place?

Here we have this unprecednetedly solid Fed authority where only 7 small banks have failed during an entire recession, Greenspan is at his most conciliatory given an impossible imperative from the Executive branch, and you are wondering about peoples' middle initials?

Thank for any thoughts on rates!

(1) [SIC]
"Still, that's a far cry from the sort of aggressive juicing that the central bank's rate cuts are supposed to offer. "
http://money.cnn.com/2003/06/26/commentary/bonds_up/index.htm

Brad,

Why are you worrying about this? Could we please instead have some of your good comments on the tiny but historic-level rates cuts where some strange fools react as if the Fed were supposed to have any flexibility to be "juicing"(1) where monetary policy has long since left off and fiscal measures should be in place?

Here we have this unprecednetedly solid Fed authority where only 7 small banks have failed during an entire recession, Greenspan is at his most conciliatory given an impossible imperative from the Executive branch, and you are wondering about peoples' middle initials?

Thank for any thoughts on rates!

(1) [SIC]
"Still, that's a far cry from the sort of aggressive juicing that the central bank's rate cuts are supposed to offer. "
http://money.cnn.com/2003/06/26/commentary/bonds_up/index.htm

Her name is "Jennifer 8 Lee". A quick search reveals that:

"Some people have asked what is the deal with the Washinton Post's Metro reporter Jennifer 8 Lee. Well here it is... Jennifer's parents are from China, where there about 200 million people have the last name "Lee." To impart a sense of individuality they gave her the middle name "8," which has special meaning to the Chinese. It means luck, good fortune, security and strength."

There is a 1992 movie called "Jennifer 8". Jennifer is older than 10, but maybe she liked the movie. Or maybe she wanted to be easy to Google, which she is.

There's a Chinese-Canadian blogger named Russil Wvong whose parents chose that spelling for obscure numerological reasons. He's also easy to Google, and he apparently has a brother.

Perhaps someone at kuro5hin would know.

yeah, I've never met her, but my business partner went to high school with her. her middle initial is 8, but it doesn't stand for anything (i.e., not 867-5309). I then got into an argument with a NYTimes proof reader that stylistically it should either be Jennifer 8 Lee or Jennifer E. Lee, but not Jennifer 8. Lee. Apparently, she just told the editors that she wanted it to be 8. and that's what they did.

I hadn't heard anything about it actually standing for something in chinese, tho.

The Chinese word for eight ("ba") is close enough in pronunciation to the Chinese word for wealth/good fortune ("fa"), that it takes on this meaning for numerological and related purposes.

If you do a search of DNS registrations, you will find a large number of sites containing "51" registered to Chinese companies (e.g. 51jobs.com).

This is due to a translation similar to that of Jennifer 8. Lee: 51 -> "wu yao" -> "wo yao" -> "I want". Thus 51jobs.com is a place to go to find employment listings.

And 14 is so bad ("yao si" -> "yao si" -> "will die"), that it is almost never found in Chinese phone numbers, and you'll occasionally find high-rises without a fourteenth floor (those that do have a fourteenth floor often have to offer space there at a discount).

(P.S. Brad, about that RMB peg, then?)

Re: RMB peg

Steven L. Jen considers China part of "dollar zone":
http://www.morganstanley.com/GEFdata/digests/20020426-fri.html#anchor4

I am so late to this part that I assume it is over. And I could hva ebeen saved the trouble of asking her (e-mail) if I had let Google take me here, instead of to the movies.

Well, "8", all.

http://www.tutone.com/

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