Links of the Week - 19 December 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Chris Rock is right: White Americans are a lot less racist than they used to be.
Christopher Ingraham

Capitalism is officially broken: Even doggy day care workers have non-competes now
Matt O'Brien

The Fabric of Our Lives: The brutal history of cotton debunks many of the most popular myths about capitalism.
Eric Herschthal

How Our Taxi Article Happened to Undercut the Efficient Market Hypothesis
Josh Barro

Sociology vs.the Empire
Noah Smith

Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather?
Nate Silver & Reuben Fischer-Baum

What if we priced food in gold?
The FRED Blog

The imaginary world of small state people
Simon Wren-Lewis

Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate: Mostly Demographics and Long Term Trends
Bill McBride

The Price of Pork Bellies
Jonathan Wight

Links of the Week - 12 December 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Conservative pundits might like Obama more if he really were a caudillo
Matthew Yglesias

Graphing GDP components with our new release view
The FRED Blog

Why do traffic jams sometimes form for no reason?
Joseph Stromberg

The Gospel of Rudy Giuliani
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Endocrine Disruptors and the Brain
Jonathan Wight

Barack Obama, Ferguson, and racial wounds unhealed
Paul Waldman

Why do we think businesspeople will make good politicians?
Paul Waldman

We shouldn't talk about Ferguson without talking about guns
Matthew Yglesias

Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Unemployment by occupation
The FRED Blog

Links of the Week - 5 December 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


FRED Release View Tutorial
The FRED Blog

An example of FRED Release View
The FRED Blog

Measuring labor costs
The FRED Blog

If You're White and Feel Discriminated Against, Jose Antonio Vargas Wants to Talk to You
Inae Oh

Wait! The right wants a new CBO director after all.
Lori Montgomery

The Never-Ending Replay of November 22, 1963
Larry Sabato

The Wisdom of Peter Schiff
Paul Krugman

Have Economists Been Captured by Business Interests?
Justin Fox

Skeptical Football: Patriots vs. Cardinals And An Interactive History Of The NFL
Benjamin Morris

Economics Is a Dismal Science for Women
Noah Smith

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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