Links of the Week - 30 January 2015

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


These are the 10 cities where the job market improved the most in the last year
Danielle Kurtzleben

Why Uber Will—and Should—Be Regulated
Eric Posner

Job Quality is about Policies, not Technology
The Growth Economics Blog

Senate flashback: The opening day filibuster over a racist senator in 1947
Gregory Koger

The velocity of money
The FRED Blog

Kludge Not
Jordan Weissmann

The Senior Senator From Kentucky
Alec MacGillis

Bitcoin revealed: a Ponzi scheme for redistributing wealth from one libertarian to another
Matt O'Brien

Happy Robert E. Lee Day!
Jamelle Bouie

How Martin Luther King's faith drove his activism
Brandon Ambrosino

People have got Rights; States haven't.

It's important to remember that "states' rights" is always and everywhere a meaningless concept. It's nothing but an empty rhetorical device, intended to stand in for some other belief or policy prescription. This holds whether the speaker is Ronald Reagan or David Duke, or any of the other myriad demagogues who have mounted feeble defenses of various social cancers.

Links of the Week - 23 January 2015

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Why the NYPD Turned Its Back on the City
Ta-Nehisi Coates

The inflation chicken littles were so wrong: The dollar is on a tear
Matt O'Brien

The top 10 reasons American politics are worse than ever
Jonathan Haidt and Sam Abrams

Most of America’s rich think the poor have it easy
Roberto A. Ferdman

Sci-jacking
Noah Smith

Still Relevant: Sisyphus as Social Democrat: A Review of Richard Parker’s ‘John Kenneth Galbraith’
Brad DeLong

Paul Ryan isn't running for president. He's after something even bigger.
Ezra Klein

The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
Joseph Stromberg

Republicans block historical marker of Ku Klux Klan massacre
Amber Frost

A Christmas Carol is a defense of charity — and capitalism
Brandon Ambrosino

Lyndon Johnson’s aides are mad that MLK is the hero of Selma
Matthew Yglesias

Before-and-after maps show how freeways transformed America's cities
Timothy B Lee

Damning court filings show Morgan Stanley pushed risky subprime mortgage lending
Danielle Kurtzleben

The substance and politics of Obamacare, in one citizen
Paul Waldman

Keynesians and the Volcker Disinflation
Paul Krugman

Links of the Week - 16 January 2015

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Hayek, Friedman, and the Illusions of Conservative Economics
Robert Solow

Profits Without Prosperity
William Lazonick

1980 And All That
Paul Krugman

Why Mississippi Hates Washington
Curtis Wilkie

Lithuania has officially jumped aboard the Titantic that is the euro
Matt O'Brien

The worst argument against Thomas Piketty yet
Dylan Matthews

The Senate's 46 Democrats got 20 million more votes than its 54 Republicans
Dylan Matthews

This is Paul Krugman's chart of the year, and it's easy to see why
Dylan Matthews

Uber Surge Prices, Part III
Matt Bruenig

Asymmetric Credibility at the Fed and Price-Level Targeting
Jared Bernstein

Links of the Week - 9 January 2015

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


The Pareto distribution and r > g
Nick Bunker

When J.F.K. Secretly Reached Out to Castro
Michael Beschloss

You can’t help today’s middle class with 1930s-era policies
Heather Boushey

One small study that explodes the myth that inequality is efficient
Matthew Yglesias

Where are the teenage employees?
The FRED Blog

Battered and Blue
Jamelle Bouie

Conservatives use N.Y. shooting to bash Obama
Paul Waldman

Blue Lives Matter
Ta-Nehisi Coates

The case for tearing down urban freeways
Timothy B Lee

The Real Origins of the Religious Right
Randall Balmer

Links of the Week - 2 January 2015

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


The value of everything: inclusive wealth
The Economist

Who you callin’ massive? The CRomnibus actually cuts discretionary spending to historic lows as share of GDP.
Jared Bernstein

20 maps that never happened
Matthew Yglesias

Traffic Jams and Multipliers
David Glasner

Deficits, Mediamacro and Popular Opinion
Simon Wren-Lewis

MV = PQ ?
Jonathan Wight

Dick Cheney doesn't want to call it torture but the media doesn't have to follow
Matthew Yglesias

FRED Adds 768 World Development Indicators
The FRED Blog