Links of the Week - 24 October 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


11 ways race isn’t real
Jenée Desmond-Harris

The New United States of America
Ben Blatt

More asymmetries: Is Keynesian economics left wing?
Simon Wren-Lewis

More prices that deviate from the CPI
The FRED Blog

Fed's Labor Market Conditions Index
Bill McBride

Twitter Is Broken
David Auerbach

Labor supply/demand imbalance in the United States
Sober Look

One paragraph that explains why the American economy isn't working for the middle class
Matthew Yglesias

The real problem with Nate Silver's model is the hazy metaphysics of probability
Matthew Yglesias

Wonderful Property Rights Dispute In San Francisco
Matt Bruenig

Links of the Week - 17 October 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Now as Provocateur, Summers Says Treasury Undermined Fed
Binyamin Appelbaum

Not all prices increase
The FRED Blog

Inflation hawks keep insisting they’re right. Reality disagrees.
Matt O'Brien

How close are the US labor markets to normalization?
Sober Look

The Long Cryptocon
Paul Krugman

‘Hey, didn’t you tell me that the Pirates would win the World Series?’ ‘Yes, but I didn’t say when.’
Andrew Gelman

11 maps that explain Washington, DC
Matthew Yglesias

Inequality really is rising, no matter how you fuss with the data
Matthew Yglesias

Poverty isn't just about not having much; it's about never knowing how much you're going to have
Danielle Kurtzleben

Inflation Hawks’ Views Are Independent of Actual Monetary Outcomes
Josh Barro

Links of the Week - 10 October 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Georgia governor concocts conspiracy theory to explain away the nation's highest unemployment rate
Matthew Yglesias

Return of the Bums on Welfare
Paul Krugman

Making it cheaper and easier to trade stocks is a terrible idea
Matthew Yglesias

Why do people on Wall Street make so much money?
Matt O'Brien

Why the Fed Is So Wimpy
Justin Fox

Don't Pick the Wrong iPhone
Cass Sunstein

The Terrible Two
Paul Krugman

This recession was different
The FRED Blog

A clearer picture of housing equity before the crisis

The FRED Blog

Financial firms don’t need an inside job to get favorable Fed treatment
Kindred Winecoff

Now as Provocateur, Summers Says Treasury Undermined Fed
Binyamin Appelbaum

Links of the Week - 3 October 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


US health care in international context: the very picture of an outlier
Jared Bernstein

The Jobless Rate: The Worst Benchmark, Except for All the Others
Binyamin Appelbaum

The economics of reclining your airplane seat aren’t so simple
James Johnson

Scott Brown won his primary. Now he wants to be the first multi-state senator in 135 years
Andrew Prokop

The Biggest Problem in American Politics
Reihan Salam

Not all books are created equal
The FRED Blog

A brief, animated history of urban annexation
Emily Badger

Wild Words, Brain Worms, and Civility
Paul Krugman

Follow or Break the Rule?
Greg Mankiw

The demographics of the activity rate decline
The FRED Blog

If the lagging labor force rate doesn’t still embody considerable slack, then why does it increasingly predict wage growth?
Jared Bernstein

John Boehner’s Theory of the Leisure Class
Paul Krugman