Links for the Week of November 22, 2015
- (2014): How To Maintain Control Of The Shared Armrest: A Guide For Women Flying Alone
- : "The last few days are a reminder that a large number of Americans are in fact shrieking, bigoted cowards, and that's a sad thing, indeed."
- : "Kevin Drum lost his even keel yesterday.... I have a slightly different opinion: the press is under no obligation to treat Republican candidates for President with the same care as escaped mental patients, or your mouthy racist uncle after a half dozen boilermakers..."
- : "The Coalition Of The Wetting is even more frightened than I expected. Niall Ferguson: 'I am, instead, going to tell you that this is exactly how civilisations fall. […] Like the Roman Empire in the early 5th century, Europe has allowed its defences to crumble. […] Poor, poor Paris. Killed by complacency.' At this point, I guess we should all know that bed wetting is a core conservative value"
- : "States with Democrats in charge accept [Medicare expansion]. States with Republicans... have mixed records.... But once a state goes along with Medicaid expansion, it doesn’t go back on it even if a strongly conservative Republican is elected governor..."
- : "Swiss watch exports had their biggest decline in six years in October, led by a 39 percent slump in shipments to Hong Kong.... Shipments declined 12 percent to 2 billion Swiss francs ($2 billion), the Swiss customs office said..."
- : Economists Tested 7 Welfare Programs to See if They Made People Lazy. They Didn't
- LifeSpan TR800-DT5 Desktop Treadmill
- : The Aspen Summit on Inequality
- (January 2013): Fed Hawks Worry About Threat of Inflation
- : mainly macro: Politically Impossible
- (2014): North Dakota’s Oil Bonanza Is Unsustainable
- : EZ Crisis: A Consensus Narrative
- : Why Democrats Fixate on Glass-Steagall
- : 2015 National Book Award Non-Fiction Winner
- Forecasts: 1.9% GDP Growth in Q4
- : High Slack or Low Slack?
- Prime-age female employment in the U.S. and Canada http://equitablegrowth.org/?p=16112
- : Models of the Minimum Wage
- : Inequality: A Fact, an Interpretation, and a Policy Recommendation
- : Esther Duflo on Alphachatterbox:
- The Lord of the Rings: Genesis
- : El Niño: Why This Year's Could Be One of the Strongest
- : Maryland’s Global Budget Interim Success
- : Where Have All the Workers Gone?
- : GSPP Policy Research Seminar: Wealth Inequality in the United States Since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data
- : Are the Robots Taking Enough Jobs?
- (November 18, 2015): Do Millennials Stand a Chance? Giving the Next Generation a Fair Shot at a Prosperous Future
- : Critics--Like Carly Fiorina--Who Claim Medicaid Coverage Stinks Should Talk with Parents Who've Actually Relied on the Program
- : “What Are the Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren?
- : Uber Is Not the Future of Work
- : The Value and Limits of Economic Models
- : Where’s My Liability, Dude?
- : Why America's Sharing Economy Needs a Massive Expansion of the Welfare State
- : How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains
- : The Pre-Great-Recession Slowdown in U.S. Productivity Growth
- : Hillary Clinton on Glass-Steagall: Right or Wrong?
- : Where Fed's Critics Got It Wrong in GOP Debate
- : Next Steps for Health Care Reform
- : The Internet Will Always Suck
- : Mizzou Football's Long, Fraught History With Racism On Campus: "The protests that brought down top officials at the University of Missouri were the culmination of a decades-long rift between black athletes and the school..."
- Clausen Center Conference on Global Economic Issues: "November 21, 2015..."
- : Friction is now between global financial elite and the rest of us
- : Estimating the equilibrium real interest rate
- : We Now Know The 6 Most Ridiculous Things About The 2015 Budget Agreement
