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