Links of the Week - 26 September 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Yellen, Wages, and Intellectual Honesty
Paul Krugman

Real Americans and Real Economics
Paul Krugman

A New Reason to Question the Official Unemployment Rate

David Leonhardt

Quits and layoffs

The FRED Blog

The Axis is back

Noah Smith

Market Basket’s Employees Were More Important Than Its Shareholders

Justin Fox

3 sentences no one should forget about unions

Ezra Klein

Is America's health care underperformance a myth?

Noah Smith

8 facts that explain what’s wrong with American health care

Sarah Kliff

The class war in American politics is over. The rich won.

Nick Carnes

4th Down: When to Go for It and Why

David Leonhardt

Don’t Know Much Revisionist History

Jamelle Bouie

Commentary: Subprime Thinking

Bill McBride

What The Economist could have read before suggesting that U.S. slavery wasn’t all bad

Chris Blattman

“Force” arguments continue to be the rhetorical backwater of idiots

Matt Bruenig

Links of the Week - 19 September 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


The Beveridge Curve hysteresis and the long-term unemployed

Sober Look

The case against time zones: They're impractical & outdated

Matthew Yglesias

Finding old inflation data

The FRED Blog

What libertarians and conservatives get wrong about Ferguson

Paul Waldman

RBC models we can believe in?

Noah Smith

By all means, we should ‘politicize’ Ferguson

Paul Waldman

Deutsche Bank: Ignoring food price pressures could be a mistake

Sober Look

40 maps that explain the Roman Empire

Timothy B. Lee

Inequality Delusions

Paul Krugman

Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

Jonathan Wight

A conservative economist makes a devastating case against his own inflation fear-mongering

Dylan Matthews

M2 velocity and inflation

The FRED Blog

5 charts that prove it's time workers got a raise

Matthew Yglesias

Chart of the Day: Welfare Reform and the Great Recession

Kevin Drum

Mr. Piketty and the classics

Branko Milanovic

Links of the Week - 12 September 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


White people are winning the war on whites
Christopher Ingraham

Are libertarians ready to embrace a broader notion of freedom?
Noah Smith

How Republican Craziness Is Undermining the South’s Massive Keynesian Stimulus
Mike the Mad Biologist

Measuring risk
The FRED Blog

The Gold Standard and Price Inflation
David Andolfatto

Libertarian Fantasies
Paul Krugman

Still No Wage Pressures to Speak Of…And Yet, People Speak of Them…
Jared Bernstein

Steps and the City
Paul Krugman

Yes, women's labor force participation matters
Noah Smith

The World Bank summed up the entire global economy in one chart
Matthew Yglesias

CPI component volatility
The FRED Blog

This billionaire has a message about inequality other billionaires aren’t going to like
Ezra Klein

Has the Beveridge Curve Really Shifted?
Jared Bernstein

Why aren’t libertarians talking about Ferguson?
Paul Waldman

Obama’s critics are suddenly sure Hillary Clinton is great
Ezra Klein

Links of the Week - 5 September 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Inflation, Unemployment, Ignorance
Paul Krugman

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

We Don’t Need to End “Too Big to Fail”
Eric Posner

Inflation OCD
Paul Krugman

Why the Rich Should Call for Income Redistribution
Mark Thoma

Why 70% of the people killed in Israel-Gaza violence are innocent Palestinian civilians
Max Fisher

James Garfield, Modern Medicine, and Economics
Jonathan Wight

Hawks Be Gone
Paul Krugman

Let's Hope the GAO Report Ends the Too-Big-to-Fail Subsidy Distraction
Mike Konczal

Good News on Financial Reform
Paul Krugman

Food, Energy and the Fed
Jon Hilsenrath

Tight rental market holding back household formation
Sober Look

Broken Windows Policing Kills People
Jamelle Bouie

The case for a maximum wage
Matthew Yglesias

These 7 Charts Show Why the Rent Is Too Damn High
Erika Eichelberger & AJ Vicens