Econintersect: Click Read more >> below graphic to see today’s list.
The top of today’s reading list is about Typhoon Haiyan and global warming …….. and the last article reports the year-over-year increase in the price of framing lumber.
- Did Climate Change Cause Typhoon Haiyan? (Quirin Schiermeier and Nature magazine, Scientific American) “There is limited evidence that warming oceans could make superstorms more likely.” See also natural resources and climate economist Sig Silber (GEI Analysis) “What Made Sandy So Destructive?“
- The Moral Responsibility of Volunteer Soldiers (Jeff McMahan, Boston Review) Should they say no to fighting in an unjust war?
- Student Loan News – November 16, 2013 (Kevin Watts, Graduating from Debt) Good weekly news source for student debt plus other articles on the subject.
- Printed To Life: The Tipping Point (5 Min. Forecast)
- Steven Cohen: The Gilded Age revisited (Patricia Beard, Reuters) “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.”
- Kass: 10 Laws of Stock Market Bubbles (Doug Kass, The Street.com)
- CHART OF THE DAY: Here’s Where Investors Think We Are In The Global Economic Cycle (Matthew Boesler, Business Insider)
- Congress Is Starving the Agency That’s Supposed to Prevent Another Meltdown (David Dayen, New Republic)
- Talking Points for the 99% (Part 1) (J.D. Alt, New Economic Perspectives)
- Framing Lumber Prices up 15% year-over-year (Bill McBride, Calculated Risk)