2:00PM Water Cooler 5/10/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Midterm spending, sheriffs, consumer prices, shipping, medical supply chain, robot cars, DSGE models, volatility, large predators, birthday boy Karl Marx, Jony Ive, reading
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Links 5/10/18
Airbnb Turns to Brussels for Help as Anti-Tourist Backlash Intensifies in Europe
Airbnb is on the run in Europe and desperate to find allies.
Read more...The U.S. Is Not at Full Employment—Don’t Believe the Trump Administration’s Hype to the Contrary
Why recent employment statistics are giving an unduly rosy picture of the state of the US labor market.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/9/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Belt and Road, NAFTA, Cory Booker, Joe Biden, billionaires and the Iran deal, prices, capital investment, shadow finance, Google and AI, Comcast and net neutrality, Schneiderman
Read more...How Tax Evasion Increases Inequality
Total tax evasion among the top 0.01% in Scandinavia is roughly 10 times the level of the population at large.
Read more...20% of Inmates in California Jails on Psychotropic Medications
Why are inmates in California jails being medicated at much higher rates than in the past?
Read more...Can Canada’s Mutual Help Financial Organizations for Disenfranchised Blacks Serve as a Model for the Un and Underbanked in the US?
Are Canada’s mutual-assistance-based financial groups a guide for how minority and disadvantaged groups can escape the tax of overpriced bank services like check cashing?
Read more...Europe Buys More Russian Gas Despite Strained Relations
Russia remains very much entwined in Europe’s economy.
Read more...Globalisation, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
How do voter reactions to globalisation vary by skill level?
Read more...Warren Buffett’s Mortgage Companies Engage in Alleged Discrimination Against Minority Borrowers, Violating Fair Housing Act
An investigative report suggests that Berkshire Hathaway’s mortgage lending operation discriminates against minority borrowers.
Read more...Tyler Cowen, Koch Brothers Funding, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, and Academic Freedom
Recent documents disclose how private money, from the Koch Brothers, among others, curtailed academic freedom at George Mason University, its Antonin Scalia Law School, and its associated Mercatus Center.
Read more...Links 5/7/18
Colorado River: The Water War That Will Decide the Fate of 1 in 8 Americans
Water wars loom on the horizon, arising from overuse for generations of the Colorado River, which carved the Grand Canyon and serves as the main water source for much of the American West.
Read more...What India Can Teach the US About a Federal Job Guarantee
As Bernie Sanders’s proposal for a federal job guarantee attracts criticism, it is worth mulling India’s successful rural job guarantee program, enacted in 2005.
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