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- CBO warns of impending email scarcity (The Just Gatekeeper, Mike Norman Economics) This is a must read to learn about something that is being ignored.
- A 40-Year-Old Magazine Article Still Haunts Climate Scientists Today (Peter Gwynne, Business Insider) The author of a 1975 article about global cooling explains why he doesn’t support that thesis today.
- Yellowstone has a 50 square mile “Zone of Death” where you can get away with murder (Dylan Matthews, Vox) The letter of the law provides that no one can be tried by a jury for a crime committed in the 50 square miles of Yellowstone National Park that lies within the state of Idaho. The only eligible jury members are required by state and federal judicial boundaries to reside within those 50 square miles and there are no human residents there. Perhaps a jury of bison or elk could be convened?
- State unemployment, 2004 to 2014 (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Hat tip to Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture. In April the state with the highest unemployment was Rhode Island (8.3%) – the lowest was North Dakota (2.6%). Click on map below for interactive graphic at the BLS:
Today there are 11 articles discussed ‘behind the wall’. The final 3 articles are about a new debate concerning the way data was used by Thomas Piketty in his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
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