Must-Reads Found Over the Weekend
- : Republicans Think America Is Doing Terribly, but It Isn’t: “Unemployment… 5 percent… recovery… has outpaced… other developed nations… uninsured Americans… plummeting… Obamacare… cost[s] less than expected… a second tech bubble…” :: America looks bright today primarily from the perspective of the rich, the techie, and those who have benefitted from ObamaCare’s coverage expansion. That is not most Republicans.
- : Asking the Question Is the Most Important Step: “None of our contributions could’ve happened without the work by the original authors…” :: Something very, very peculiar is going on with middle-aged American whites in the Bush 43 and Obama years–much more so for women–and it is distinctly odd.
- : Being An Inflation Hawk Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry: “Jeffry Lacker… just said…. Oh, wait: That’s what he said six years ago…” :: As long as reporters–even good reporters–act as stenographers, and thus neither make readers aware of their sources’ track records nor ask sources to justify why one should place confidence in their assessments, our public intellectual sphere and our dialogue will continue to be broken.
- : We Now Know The 6 Most Ridiculous Things About The 2015 Budget Agreement
- Clausen Center Conference on Global Economic Issues: “November 21, 2015…”
- : Friction is now between global financial elite and the rest of us
- : Estimating the equilibrium real interest rate
- : Mizzou Football’s Long, Fraught History With Racism On Campus: “The protests that brought down top officials at the University of Missouri were the culmination of a decades-long rift between black athletes and the school…”
- : Logitech’s Create is the iPad Pro Keyboard Case You Really Want
- : “We’re bullish on Rubio. We’re bullish on Cruz. But just because an outcome is the most likely doesn’t mean that it’s likely…. The Republican race… remains relatively wide open…. Cruz and Rubio are in as strong a position as any…. But the nomination process remains far too muddled to know what’s going to happen…. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.”
- : How Crystal Dynamics Saved Lara Croft
- : The Internet Will Always Suck