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Noted for the Evening of October 18, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

Simon Wren-Lewis: “Political journalists… try hard to be unbiased in a party-political sense… because there are political machines that try and hold them to that….. Being unbiased towards the facts and… their duty to inform, are at least as important…. [But] there are no equivalent mechanisms…”
Helaine Olen: “Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Jeb Bush have something in common: ‘multilevel marketing’ companies that prey upon the desperate and broke…”
Sara Goldrick-Rab: Make College Free
Paul Romer: Speeding-up and Missed Opportunities: Evidence
Joshua Gans: The Romer Model turns 25
Maury Obstfeld: The quest for robust and synchronised growth
Mike Konczal: Four Ways of Looking at a TBTF Subsidy: A Reply to Dean Baker

Might Like to Be Aware of:

Heather: Former Mistress Alleges David Vitter Asked Her to Get an Abortion
Mark Parry: Economist Dani Rodrik Turns Sleuth: A Harvard Economist. A Coup Plot. A Career Forever Changed
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U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes

U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon