Noted for Your Evening Procrastination for May 20, 2015
Must- and Should-Reads:
- : "The Economy Of Los Angeles Will Be Destroyed: FIFTEEN WHOLE DOLLARS AN HOUR how can the jaayuuubb creeaturrzz possibly create jobs in those conditions???..."
- : "At present, when zero interest rates make capital costs as low as they have ever been but corporate profits are at record levels, there needs to be much less concern with capital costs and more concern with the distributional aspects of capital taxation..."
- : The Importance of Taxing Capital
- : Obamacare: What If the GOP Gets What It Wants?
Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog
- : The Theory of Growth and Inequality: Piketty, Zucman, Krusell, Smith, and "Mathiness"
- Ken Rogoff Fakes Right, Goes Left, and Heads Down the Sideline Toward Global Social Democracy and a Truly Human World...
- : New insights into U.S. public perceptions of income inequality
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And Over Here:
- Live from La Farine: 500 years, or 50 years, or 5 years, or 5 months, or 5 days from now the Roman Catholic Church will reverse Pope Paul VI's claim
- Comment of the Day: Walt Someguy: Unfogged: 'The new Mad Max movie may be the most guy movie ever made. The plot is literally: Tom Hardy (Mad Max) and Charlize Theron (Furiosa) rescue scantily-clad supermodels...
- Live from La Farine: I have long had a Facebook account
- Liveblogging World War II: May 20, 1945: Okinawa Campaign
- Live from La Farine: Game of Thrones Blogging: People: 'Game of Thrones' Is Horror!
- Can Somebody Explain to Me Why David Brooks Still Has His Job at the New York Times?
- [Across the Wide Missouri: Yet more journamalism from The New York Times and David Brooks](http://www.bradford-delong.com/2015/05/across-the-wide-missouri-yet-more-journamalism-from-the-new-york-times-and-david-brooks-once-again-i-dont-
Might Like to Be Aware of:
- Dimitri Amilakhvari
- Amtrak Capitol Corridor Schedule
- : "What the mouse was to the Mac and multi-touch was to the iPhone, Siri is to the Watch.... [But] the success or failure of Siri... depends on the cloud, and... an examination of their core competencies and incentives argues that the company will never be as good as Google. That was acceptable on the phone, but is a much more problematic... [with] the most important means of interacting with the Watch..."
- : In Praise of Nux, Fury Road's Tortured Soul
- : How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles
- : MAD MAX FURY ROAD IS A MOVIE MADE WITH CAPS LOCK ON - SBNation.com
- : Melissa McCarthy Shuts Down Reporter Who Criticized Her Appearance
- : No more dieting, and 7 other things we do differently after reporting on health care
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