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The top of today’s reading list asks if modern finance has caused economic stagnation …….. and the last article describes the structural shift in employment demonstrated by the Beveridge curve.
- Is modern finance the source of secular stagnation? (Synthetic Assets)
- One Senator’s War Against Climate Change (Ezra Klein, Bloomberg)
- Obamacare’s Religious Freedom Question Dumped on Supreme Court (Meghan Foley, Wall St. Cheat Sheet) The ultimate question is whether any person has the right to deny choice to another person. We have established that government has the right to restrict individual choice subject to the approval and acceptance by a majority of voters. Could this case establish that persons with sufficient power (like an employer) can dictate to other persons (employees) that social options available to the general populace may be forbidden to them?
- Levitate: Dismiss Bubble Talk .. For Now (Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab)
- A world-class flaw in the Fed’s jobs plot (Robert Gottliebsen, Business Spectator)
- The strange convergence of Bernanke, Hayek and Bitcoin (Nicholas Wapschott, Reuters)
- Learning to Love Investment Bubbles: What if Sir Isaac Newton had been a Trendfollower? (Mebane Faber, Social Science Research Network)
- The Life Choices of Wealthy Men, Part Three (Elliott Morss, Morss Global Finance) Elliott Morss contrinutes to Global Economic Intersection. In this third part of a study started in the 1990s the author explores what part chance played in the choices made by these 17 men.
- Fed up with slow and pricey Internet, cities start demanding gigabit fiber (Jon Brodkin, ars technica) In some cities high bandwidth service costs up to 34 times as much as other places in the U.S.
- Watching the trajectory of the Beveridge Curve (Sober Look) Following a clear demonstration of structal shift in the labor market.
