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Testing the permanent income hypothesis

Carter Price

What’s wrong with making people post bail after trial

Max Ehrenfreund

The weird way people talk about zero interest rates

Paul Waldman

Samuelson’s Tavern, Solow Speaking: How MIT Transformed Economics

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Americans define “rich” as anyone who makes more money than they do

Christopher Ingraham

"Involuntary" unemployment as worsening trade-off

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What a 100-year-old racist movie tells us about civil rights then and now

Rick Vallely

"If Personal Beliefs Were a Valid Basis for Public Health…"

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

John and Maynard’s Excellent Adventure

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Jon Stewart: The Oklahoma frat boys are racist. Stop making excuses for them.

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Millions of Americans don't have equal voting rights. John Oliver is not happy about it.

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Why Not Shame David Brooks for Divorcing?

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Amateur Hour

It is a useful thing when a political party reveals itself as utterly unsuited for national leadership.

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Critique Drift

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The Fed Is Weird. Get Over It.

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Republicans are beginning to act as though Barack Obama isn’t even the president

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Big Government Is Getting In The Way Of Big Data

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A Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Gets It Very, Very Wrong On Seasonal Adjustment

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The fringe economic theory that might get traction in the 2016 campaign

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Ben Bernanke Has an Impressive Passive-Aggressive Streak, and Other Things We Learned in the New Fed Transcripts

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Warren Buffett explains how taxes, Wall Street greed, and executive ego help him get rich

Matthew Yglesias

Dynamic scoring is a good idea with big problems

Ezra Klein

How social science explains the Silk Road

Henry Farrell

The curious incident of the wage and price data not barking in the night

Jared Bernstein

Why Bill O’Reilly Won’t Share Glenn Beck’s Fate

Justin Peters

House Republicans have a potentially dangerous idea for the Fed

Danielle Kurtzleben

25 maps that explain the English language

Libby Nelson

Empire of the Institute

Paul Krugman

The Regrettable Man

Paul Krugman

The Governor of Ohio Has a Gloriously Terrible Plan to Amend the Constitution

Sam Brodey

Apps Everywhere, but No Unifying Link - NYTimes.com

Conor Dougherty

Hedge funds are a racket, in 2 charts

Timothy B Lee

The Tortured Logic of the Heritage Foundation on Public Transportation

Kevin DeGood

Parallel prices for oil-based fuels

The FRED Blog

Marco Rubio And The Pareto Frontier

Nate Silver

Is human capital really capital?

Noah Smith

How did the U.S. economy perform under the pre-Fed gold standard?

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70 maps that explain America

Max Fisher & Dylan Matthews

The Middle East: Key Players and Notable Relationships

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The Bill O’Reilly scandal, made simple

Paul Waldman

Obama's newest plan might drive investment advisers out of business. Good.

Matthew Yglesias

Krugman: soaring inequality isn’t about education; it’s about power

Ezra Klein

Obama Derangement Syndrome

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