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The top of today’s reading list is about the incredible shrinking internet…….. and the last article is an update about the possibility of language among the closest relatives to homo sapiens.
- The Incredible Shrinking Internet (Dan Fejes, Pruning Shears) Hat tip to Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism.
- How Ronald Coase Demolished Current Libertarian Ideas About Property (Mike Konczal, Next New Deal) Mike Konczal has contributed to Global Economic Intersection.
- How the Foreclosure Crisis Made the Rich Even Richer (Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism) Yves Smith has contributed to Global Economic Intersection.
- By the Numbers: The Incredibly Shrinking American Middle Class (Karin Kamp, Moyers & Company)
- 10 Tips to Make the Most of Your High-Deductible Health Plan (Karen Datko, Money Talks News)
- Monetary policy, “taper” have little effect on the economy (Mike Norman, Mike Norman Economics) Hat tip to Roger Erickson who points out that there are useful comments following the video at Mike Norman Economics.
- What George Bailey Can Teach Us About QE (David Beckworth, Macro and Other Market Musings)
My assessment is that QE2 and QE3 has done more to shore up the U.S. economy than many observers realize. We do not know how much worse the economy would be in their absence, but … it could have been ugly.
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- Five Ways Occupy Wall Street Changed the Debate (David Weidner, The Wall Street Journal) The movement was a failure with a positive lasting legacy.
- What Undercover Boss and The Jetsons Tell Us About the Future of Jobs (Miles Brundage, Slate) Hat tip to Russell Huntley. Large numbers of service jobs will be automated out of worker existence in the coming years.
- Neanderthals, Denisovans May Have Had Their Own Language, Suggest Scientists (Sci-News.com) Hat tip to Sanjeev Kulkarni. Read some background on Denisovans.