Links of the Week - 29 August 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Chart: Even mediocre CEOs get huge pay packages
Danielle Kurtzleben

Wall Street Skips Economics Class
Noah Smith

National unity sure is helpful
Noah Smith

Why Voters Aren’t Angrier About Economic Inequality

Eduardo Porter

National Review’s Dishonest History

Jamelle Bouie

Achieving Greater Long-Term Wealth Through Index Funds

Charles Rotblut & John C. Bogle

Thoughts on the Fed's New Labor Market Conditions Index

Carola Binder

Addressing misconceptions about the Consumer Price Index

John S. Greenlees & Robert B. McClelland

Why a Soaring Stock Market Is Wasted on the Young

Neil Irwin

In Investing, 'When' Matters Just as Much as 'What'

Neil Irwin

The US Phillips curve
Sober Look

Moore of the same
Paul Krugman

North Carolina’s Misunderstood Cut in Jobless Benefits
Justin Wolfers

On State Unemployment Rates, It’s Analyst Beware
Justin Wolfers

Spurious correlation
The FRED Blog

Links of the Week - 22 August 2014

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Austrianism, wrong? Inconceivable!
Noah Smith

The most important chart nobody is talking about
Matthew Yglesias

The intellectual cesspool of the inflation truthers
Matt O'Brien

Meet Rutherford: The surprisingly durable American habit of naming kids after sitting presidents.
Ben Blatt

Tipping perpetuates racism, classism, and poverty — let's get rid of it!
Brandon Ambrosino

The free market is an impossible utopia
Henry Farrell

Republicans want to control, not end, the Fed
Matt O'Brien

On the Difference Between GNP and GDP
Dan Hirschman

Dear inflation truthers: This is how averages work
Matt O'Brien

Let them eat cosmopolitanism
Ryan Avent

What Is "Subprime"?
Calculated Risk

Why more companies want pensions off their books
Michael A. Fletcher

Is economics jargon distortionary?
Simon Wren-Lewis

Overruled
The Economist

Less than a quarter of Americans get the most important investment question right
Dylan Matthews

Links of the Week - 15 August 2014

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7 papers, 4 government inquiries, 2 news investigations and 1 court ruling proving voter fraud is mostly a myth
Christopher Ingraham

The Monetary Fever Swamps
Paul Krugman

Debt- and deficit-to-GDP dynamics
The FRED Blog

What the Beveridge Curve may tell us about the U.S. labor market
Nick Bunker

Has the Beveridge Curve Shifted?
Murat Tasci & John Lindner

Flows From Unemployment to Employment & Extended Unemployment Insurance
Robert Waldmann

New Tool from Atlanta Fed: GDPNow
Bill McBride

Brookings: One political party is actively working to make government fail (guess which one!)
Christopher Ingraham & Tom Hamburger

In search of search theory

John Quiggin

How conservatives won with Obamacare

Ezra Klein

How long can the GOP last as the cranky oldster party?

Matthew Yglesias

We Didn’t Build That

David Weigel

A three-headed hydra: Measuring inequality

The Economist

7 reasons the gold standard is a terrible idea

Matthew Yglesias

Debt Shall Have No Dominion

Paul Krugman

Links of the Week - 8 August 2014

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Trick or Tweak
Paul Krugman

The economy’s troubling double standard for black men
Jonnelle Marte

Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby and the Decay of Welfare Capitalism
Brad DeLong

A Few More Thoughts on the Ex-Im Bank
Jared Bernstein

Mapping international data
The FRED Blog

The Great Disinvestment
Paul Krugman

The return of ‘47 percent’ and the endless political class war

Paul Waldman

These Ages of Shoddy

Paul Krugman

Donors Give More When They Have a Sense of Belonging

Robert Shiller

Why I'm tired of hearing about 'that' civil rights movement

John Blake

Austrian Economists, 9/11 Truthers and Brain Worms
Noah Smith

The Tragic Success of Freedom Summer
Josh Zeitz

"I Thought I Could Swing It": The Strange Life and Presidency of Silent Cal
Anthony Bergen

Why printing more money could have stopped the Great Recession
Timothy B. Lee

The spontaneous combustion theory of inflation
Greg Ip

Links of the Week - 1 August 2014

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40 maps that explain World War I
Zack Beauchamp, Timothy B. Lee and Matthew Yglesias

The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
Nick Hanauer

More than three quarters of conservatives say the poor “have it easy”
Christopher Ingraham

A black man with a college degree is as likely to be working as a white college dropout
Danielle Kurtzleben

63% of Americans believe 'blacks who can't get ahead are mostly responsible for their own condition'
Max Fisher

Why free parking is bad for everyone
Joseph Stromberg

Yes, if You Cut Taxes, You Get Less Tax Revenue
Josh Barro

Demographics: Prime and Near-Prime Population and Labor Force
Bill McBride

Oldies But Goodies

Paul Krugman

Moaning Moguls

James Surowiecki