Links of the Week - 28 November 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


The SEC West and Maximum Likelihood
Chase Stuart

Elmendorf for CBO Director
Greg Mankiw

Repeat After Me: The Quantity of Labor Demanded is Not Always Equal to the Quantity Supplied
Roger Farmer

Instant Runoff Voting and Strategic Voting
Matt Bruenig

It Shouldn't Need Saying...
James Wolcott

Congress would rather you drive to work than take public transit
Emily Badger

Federal, state, and local expenditures
The FRED Blog

Whatever Happened to Overtime?
Nick Hanauer

Walmart’s Weatherman
Alison Griswold

Why Scott Walker Might Be Our Next President
Kevin Drum

Links of the Week - 21 November 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


This billionaire thinks the Fed is missing the hyperinflation in the Hamptons
Matt O'Brien

Commentary: Politics and Jobs
Bill McBride

Trickle-down Inflation
Jonathan Wight

Employment: Party Like It's 1999!
Bill McBride

The real reason Valerie Jarrett is the most hated person in Washington
Matthew Yglesias

6 questions about Washington, DC, statehood you were too disenfranchised to ask
German Lopez

The gold standard is a perfect currency choice for ISIS
Matthew Yglesias

42 maps that explain World War II
Timothy B. Lee

AOL’s ‘digital prophet’ is everything wrong with Corporate America today
Matt O'Brien

The NAIRU, explained: why economists don't want unemployment to drop too low
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 14 November 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Why turning our clocks back Sunday makes no sense
Chris Mooney

Decomposing the velocity of money
Sober Look

The Day the Wall Came Down

Fred Kaplan

Once again, the jobs report escaped the margin of error

Danielle Kurtzleben

The labor force participation rate is at a low point

Mitchell Hartman

The Mayor Who Solved Boston

Peter Canellos

Meet Elmus Wicker

David Warsh

On financial stress

The FRED Blog

Apple borrowing billions to pay shareholders is everything wrong with capitalism today

Matt O'Brien

The government has finally stopped sabotaging the economy

Danielle Kurtzleben 

Links of the Week - 7 November 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Americans don't have a constitutional right to vote — it's time for that to change
Matthew Yglesias

What Republicans don’t get about the minimum wage
Paul Waldman

How fast has the unemployment rate declined?
The FRED Blog

The real problem with Joni Ernst’s quote about guns and the government
Paul Waldman

A Few Comments on QE
Bill McBride

Gap between wages and rents continues to grow

Sober Look

Regulation and private laws

Matt Bruenig

The State Does Not Enforce Most Agreements

Matt Bruenig

A $90 Million Condo Flip Shows What’s Wrong With Financial Capitalism

Neil Irwin

Of sticky and flexible prices

The FRED Blog

Links of the Week - 31 October 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Dollar strength and inflation expectations
Sober Look

How the media has helped normalize GOP crazy
Paul Waldman

Greenberg’s Folly

Zachary Karabell

An Excess of Virtue?

Jonathan Wight

One paper by Nobel Prize winner Jean Tirole that every internet user should know

Matthew Yglesias

The Nobel prize goes to Jean Tirole

The Economist

Understand the research that just won Jean Tirole the economics Nobel Prize

Danielle Kurtzleben

Morning Must-Read: Annie Lowrey: Amazon Is Not a Monopoly

via Brad DeLong

Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics for actually showing us how the real world works

Matt O'Brien

Jean Tirole’s Nobel Prize Is Also a Win for Modern Microeconomic Theory

Justin Wolfers

Posner Rethinks Voter I.D. Laws

Jonathan Wight

Three ways of understanding the world

Noah Smith

Paul Ryan has a trick up his sleeve when it comes to taxes. It won’t work.

Matt O'Brien

An American billionaire wants to save the US economy with a betting market in New Zealand

Timothy B Lee

Wading Toward Home

Michael Lewis

When the Guy Making Your Sandwich Has a Noncompete Clause

Neil Irwin

Top economists say Piketty is wrong about wealth inequality. They misunderstood him.

Matt O'Brien

Sins of Omission

Fred Kaplan

You know there’s something wrong with the economy when sandwich-makers have non-compete clauses

Matt O'Brien

To say: “we fought the war on poverty and lost” is to reveal your contempt for facts.

Jared Bernstein

The Civility Whine

Paul Krugman

What’s the “normal” unemployment rate?

The FRED Blog

Big move for vol of vol

Sober Look

This is what the legacy of ‘white privilege’ looks like in Bill O’Reilly’s hometown

Emily Badger

Imperfect Competition, Legitimate at Last

David Warsh