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Must- and Should-Reads: February 4, 2017

FT Alphaville: Thought for the Weekend: “President Donald Trump has begun killing off an Obama-era retirement-savings rule…
Joe Coscarelli: The ‘Bowling Green Massacre’: “Kellyanne Conway, the adviser to President Trump who coined the phrase ‘alternative facts’…
Larry Summers: A Telling Moment for Business Leaders: “I got a chance to spell out my views on the role of business leaders in influencing public policy…
Pedro da Costa: Why the Trump Economic Boom Will Never Come: “Equity markets… [have] focused on Trump’s promises while ignoring his threats…
Sean Blanda: Medium, and The Reason You Can’t Stand the News Anymore: “We get sliced and sliced into smaller and smaller groups, each with its own group of pundits, publications, and Facebook memes…
Jeff Engel: Robots Might Eat Your Job, But Being Human Could Get You A New One: “Erik Brynjolfsson… ‘Will Robots Eat Your Job?’…
Dan Nexon: The Trump Administration: It’s as Bad as it Looks: “It will take about six minutes to watch Colin Kahl…
Jeff Desjardins: Visualizing the Shifting Income Distributions of American Jobs

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Comment of the Day: Graydon: Teaching “creativity, empathy, teamwork, planning, problem solving, leadership, and so on”: “It’s actually pretty easy to teach those things….
Comment of the Day: GMcKCypress: Reading: Robert Gordon (2014): The Demise of U.S. Economic Growth: Restatement, Rebuttal, and Reflections: “If you’re looking for a sound-bite definition of ‘singularity’…
Weekend Reading: Ernest Gellner: Conditions of Liberty

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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