Noted to Aid Your Lunchtime Procrastination for September 22, 2013
- Some Hero Strapped a GoPro Camera Onto An Eagle And The Footage Is Breathtaking
- "I can’t tell if education reformers are stupid, riddled with ideology, or just trying to make their projects seem grander than they are:" MattBruenig: Education and poverty, again
- "More than half of all homes sold last year and so far in 2013 have been financed without a mortgage, according to an analysis by economists at Goldman Sachs Group": Nick Timiraos: Report: Half of All Homes Are Being Purchased With Cash
- "The U.S. does not provide more upward mobility than other nations do; if anything, young Americans’ economic fortunes are more tied to those of their parents than is true in other western nations. So, where did this image of exceptional mobility come from?": Claude Fisher: Loss of economic exceptionalism
- "In a Perfect World, we wouldn’t have to go out and battle paid disinformationists to save the world but we do. In a Perfect World, the most wealthy corporations in human history wouldn’t be controlled by a handful of science-denying sociopaths, but they are": *Wonkette: It’s Getting Hot In Here, Starbursts, Lady Squids With Balls, And More In This Week’s Sci-Blog!
- "In asking why people keep entering humanities Ph.D. programs when the economic payoff of the multi-year investment seems uncertain… the implication is that economic analysis is what’s first and foremost…. Asking why young people keep entering Ph.D. programs is a lot like asking why young people keep moving to New York planning to become actors. Or asking why young people head into journalism": Heather Horn: In Defense of the Humanities Ph.D.: It's No Crazier Than Becoming a Journalist
And:
- Ann Marie Marciarille: The Private Option for Medicaid Expansion
- Kevin Roose: The Fed Decides the Economy Still Sucks
- Cover Oregon
- Cover Minnesota
- Tyler Cowen: The food stamps program
- Paul Krugman: Food Stamps
- Robert Shiller: Finance: The Best, Brightest, and Least Productive
Plus: Short:
Eric Jaffe: A Fantastically Clear, Concise Explanation of Why Traffic Happens | John Quiggin: The global party of stupid | Digby: HullabalooA congressman's "peers" are his constituents, not wealthy benefactors | Paul Krugman: Models: Plain and Fancy |
Plus: Long:
