Howdy partner, mosey on down to the links today.
In no particular order, the links:
Paul Kurgman asks, How's California Doing? I suppose it's best seen when in contrast to states like Kansas and Wisconsin but most accurately measured against Texas and New York.
Catherine Rampell provides an overview of the supposedly shrinking workweek. Many people have argued for such a thing from Keynes to Carlos Slim. The reality looks a little bit different.
The NY Times created a tool to search for word frequency through it's entire print history. I searched for Old Grey Lady. Very cool.
Eduardo Porter asks, Why aren't voters angrier about economic inequality? As far as I can tell, it's more about the poor and disenfranchised not voting than about them not being angry. Also, people don't understand inequality because they don't get how awesome the rich really have it. We Oligrch-Americans inhabit different world from the poors.
Storyline is all about energy policy today. Here's The (possibly) Slow Death of Coal. I hope they stick with the daily themes.
Noah Smith thinks Wall St. skipped economics class back in the 70s and 80s. What did those bankers miss while they were doing quaaludes and blow? Well, the entirety of economics abandoned Structural Economic Modeling in favor of approaches which sought to model individuals within the economy. This matters because SEM methods can only ever find correlations while modeled behaviors get closer to causation,
Monkey Cage's Andrew Gelman takes issue with the idea that meritocracy somehow excludes the elite passing on their fortunes to family.
Speaking of meritocracy and bootstrapping, Valleywag gives us, If TaskRabbit Is the Future of Employment, the Employed are Fucked. But I seem to remember Silicon Valley types saying that services like this, Uber, AirB&B, and other 'sharing economy' apps are democratizing work?
WSJ looks at Millennial views on housing and thinks they're not that different after all. I guess, because, umm, they're likely to consider being married and living in a house ideal? I dunno, you figure it out.
The Providence Journal tried to figure out how the hedge funds that Rhode Island State Pensions are performing. They got their asses slapped down in court. That's right! In state after state, the public is being denied, in court, the right to know how their public pensions are performing. No more retirement.
Andrew Sullivan points to Strategic Counter-trolling on the internet. Western government hire people to go around and challenge terrorists' points of view on the internet. I think it's really more about surveillance. Maybe you convince some people not to agree with the terrorists but you also see who is 'engaged' with their posts.
He also looks at The Left's Elizabeth Warren Fantasy. Oh how I can dream.
Our poor mental health coverage basically means the mentally ill go to jail.
The Pacific Standard has an article about how time is racist. More accurately, African Americans suffer from more degenerative aging than other races. Limited access to healthcare, education, good communities, and good jobs means you live a shorter and more painful life. That's why we need reparations.
Why are people Malnourished in the Richest County on Earth? An interactive media experience from The National Geographic.
Vox gives us a trendy post on food trendsetters. I think it's interesting to see how they are really only targeting one market over and over again.
Vox provides an overview of Paul Ryan's new budget. It's mostly what you'd expect plus a proposal to expand the EITC.
But what Paul Ryan doesn't do is provide better public transit, which is proven to help ameliorate poverty.
XKCD presents Snake Facts.
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