Noted for the Morning of September 17, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig: Lost Opportunity
• Must-Read: John Cassidy: Jeb Bush and the Return of Voodoo Economics
• Must-Read: Robert F. Stambaugh and Yu Yuan: Mispricing Factors
• Must-Read: Elise Gould and Tanyell Cooke: By the Numbers: Income and Poverty, 2014
• Lawrence Mishel and Alyssa Davis: Income Stagnation in 2014 Shows the Economy Is Not Working for Most Families
• Bruce Bartlett: Half Measures: David Madland… at… CAP…. The scale of the problems confronting the middle class is so great that such small-bore initiatives are unlikely to accomplish much…. Higher revenues are… necessary… to redress rising income inequality and… provide the resources for a meaningful package…
• Ta-Nehisi Coates: 50 Years After the Moynihan Report: Examining the Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
• Jon Chait: How Jeb Bush’s Tax Cuts Suckered the Media
• Jonathan Portes: The UK’s Digital Economy
• Steve Randy Waldman: Perspectives on a Universal Basic Income

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Eric Liu: How to Be American: Why cultivating a shared cultural core is more important than ever—and why such a project serves progressive ends…
• Kelly Dickerson: Why ‘The Martian’ Is the Best Space Sci-Fi Movie of My Time
• Daniel Davies: “It’s not so much “marking your views to market”. It’s “closing all your positions because they’re so far out that you’re being ripped apart by margin calls”…
• Nathan Pippenger: America’s Gun Problem and the Reassertion of Christian Leftism: Dan Hodges: “In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over…”
• Ian Millhiser: Keep Fearing the Supreme Court: The real story of the Court’s recent term is… conservative overreach…. It’s unlikely that liberals will celebrate the 2015-16 term… poised to… kill affirmative action and throw public-sector unions into financial turmoil…