Links for the Week of September 14, 2015
Links:
- (2012): Do economic crises reflect crises in economics?
- : A Question About the Future of the World Wide Web
- (2009): Wall Street on the Tundra
- : U-1206's' crew scuttled the German vessel after a potty mishap
- : Politico Willing Trump To Vanish.... [the] ‘new’ data... comes from a prediction market. Seriously[:]... 'hour-by-hour data provided by Predictwise...
- ** (2004): Fairness, Reciprocity, and Wage Rigidity
- : A Long, Long Way to Go
- : Carly Fiorina's Business Record Is at Least as Bad as Donald Trump's
- : Guest the Post! Ad Blockers: Great Thing, or the Greatest Thing?
- : Weekend Reading
- : "Sean Wilentz, hack pundit.... Wilentz’s strategy here is to make a narrow claim... that is technically defensible but not actually responsive to Sanders’s point.... Why Wilentz continues to destroy his reputation to be Hillary Clinton’s op-ed enforcer is beyond me."
- : California’s Upward-Mobility Machine--the University of California
- : "The Amazon Lineup... is starting to fit together: Sell a tablet as cheaply as possible to get share of attention. Monetize the attention... towards apps with advertising and... towards video through...Prime Video. Watch as Prime expands Amazon’s share of wallet..."
- : The ad blocking controversy, explained
- : Jeb Bush tweets picture of 9/11 aftermath to demonstrate how George W. Bush ‘kept us safe’
- : Carly Fiorina Increased Hewlett-Packard’s Sales, but Not Its Profits
- : Welcome to hell: Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook and the slow death of the web
- : The economy was a no-show at GOP debate
- : Fantasies and Fictions at GOP Debate
- : Carly Fiorina's Controversial Record as CEO, Explained
- : Oil Prices, Inflation Expectations, and Monetary Policy
- : Star Trek's Utopia is already here
- Daniel Davies: "It's not so much "marking your views to market". It's "closing all your positions because they're so far out that you're being ripped apart by margin calls"...
- : Half Measures: David Madland... at... CAP.... The scale of the problems confronting the middle class is so great that such small-bore initiatives are unlikely to accomplish much.... Higher revenues are... necessary... to redress rising income inequality and... provide the resources for a meaningful package...
- (2004): Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- Must-Read: : Mispricing Factors
- Must-Read: : Jeb Bush and the Return of Voodoo Economics
- : Keep Fearing the Supreme Court: The real story of the Court’s recent term is... conservative overreach.... It’s unlikely that liberals will celebrate the 2015-16 term... poised to... kill affirmative action and throw public-sector unions into financial turmoil...
- : Lost Opportunity
- : It is highly unlikely that China would need to spend all of its reserves to defend the renminbi.... Moreover, the reserves are not useful for anything [else]... so China may as well use them.... Indeed... China is better off selling reserves while it can still get a good price for them...
- : Income Stagnation in 2014 Shows the Economy Is Not Working for Most Families
- Must-Read: : By the Numbers: Income and Poverty, 2014
- : How to Be American: Why cultivating a shared cultural core is more important than ever—and why such a project serves progressive ends...
- : America’s Gun Problem and the Reassertion of Christian Leftism: Dan Hodges: "In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over..."
- : Why 'The Martian' Is the Best Space Sci-Fi Movie of My Time
- : The UK's Digital Economy
- : Perspectives on a Universal Basic Income
- : 50 Years After the Moynihan Report: Examining the Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
- : Planned Parenthood... didn’t sell fetal tissue for a profit... didn’t misuse public resources... didn’t violate any laws. The Republican plan was based on a foundation of quicksand.... But... GOP House members are now shifting to their back-up plan: they no longer care whether Planned Parenthood did anything wrong...
- : How Jeb Bush’s Tax Cuts Suckered the Media
- : Why is the media more interested in Hillary's email than in Jeb's profoundly dishonest tax pitch?
- Arkham, Mass.
- : Ta-Nehisi Coates: “For African Americans, Unfreedom Is the Historical Norm”
- Must-Read: : Why the Fed Is Likely to Stand Pat This Week
- Serial Box
- Must-Read: **: The Importance of Corbynomics
- Must-Read: : Student Loan Distress Goes Beyond Defaults
- : Prospect Theory as Efficient Perceptual Distortion
- Must-Read: : Labour’s Dead Center
- : The Lessons of Lehman, Learned and Unlearned
- : Rethinking Government Debt
- : Full Employment Hasn't Always Translated Into Higher Inflation: We believe this time will be different
- : Straws in the LHC Wind: Lepton Universality and an Update on "That Bump"
- Must-Read: (2010): Convergence in Macroeconomics: Hoisted from Ray Fair's Archives
- Must-Read: : Poland Versus Greece
- Must-Read: : Jon Chait Wrote an Optimistic Take on Climate Change. Is it justified?
- Must-Read: : Lesson for Fed: Higher Interest Rates Haven’t Been Sticking
- Must-Read: : The Press Calls Him on It!
- : Opioids: An "n of 1" Reflection
- (1997): The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy
- : The Science Of Grading Teachers Gets High Marks
