Must- and Should-Reads: January 26, 2017
- Charles Stross (2010): Insufficient Data: “So. I ask: how many people does it take, as a minimum, to maintain our current level of technological civilization?…
- Kevin Drum: Who’s Afraid of the Trans-Pacific Partnership?: “The responsibility of trade deals for the decline of manufacturing in the US has become practically holy writ over the past year…
- Martin Wolf: Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s Battle Over Globalisation: “[The Trumpists] believe, for example, that a value added tax not levied on exports is a subsidy to exports…
- Ann Marie Marciarille: Email, The Gift That Keeps on Giving: “U.S. District Judge John D. Bates spilled a considerable amount of ink in yesterday’s Memorandum Opinion enjoining the Aetna-Humana health insurance merger…
- David Beckworth: It’s Policy Divergence, Not China, Driving the Dollar: “President Trump is worried about the strong dollar… said… China holds down its currency…
- Ed Luce: [President Trump’s Speech Puts the World on Notice][]: “Combative address will go down as a turning point in America’s postwar role…
- Bonnie Kristian: [We’re All Public Intellectuals Now][]: “Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena: Professors or Pundits? http://amzn.to/2kx3M6U…
Interesting Reads:
- Dani Rodrik: Is Global Inequality the Enemy of National Equality?
- Marketwatch: Lost a factory job? Don’t blame NAFTA or China’s joining the WTO
- Barry Ritholtz: Investing: Opinions vs. Facts: “In politics, you can get away with this. Voters live in bubbles of their own making…. Investors, however, aren’t quite so lucky when their belief systems diverge from reality…
- Mark Thoma: Better Wisdom from Crowds: “People are asked… what they think the right answer is, and what they think popular opinion will be. The variation between the two aggregate responses indicates the correct answer…
- Tim Duy: Beware of Hard-Money Advocates Filling Fed Positions
- David Anderson: Big Payer vs. Big Provider in the Bay State
- Note to Self: Energy in Bob Allen’s subsistence budgets: 40hrs of 1 Strada outdoor heater = 2,000,000 BTUs = 600 kwh
- Live from Bloomberg News: “Tom Keene… featured your excellent Vox essay as his Morning Must Read…
- Live from the Habermasian Public Sphere: Coming imminently at http://milkenreview.org: Helicopter Money: When Zero Just Isn’t Low Enough…
- Sean Blanda: Medium, and The Reason You Can’t Stand the News Anymore
- Dave Zirin: I Was at Trump’s Inauguration. It Was Tiny