Must Read/Watch:
- Matt Taibbi, Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
- Brad DeLong, What We Got Here Is a Failure to Do the Government Debt Amortization Arithmetic…
- Carli Lloyd’s goal from midfield in women’s World Cup final last weekend.
- Bernie Sanders, Why Not?
Should Read/Watch
- The Mahablog, The Right Time
- James Galbraith, 9 myths about the Greek crisis
- Jim Yardley and Binyamin Applebaum (NYT), In Fiery Speeches, Francis Excoriates Global Capitalism
- Jesse Ausubel, Nature Rebounds
- Mark Bittman (NYT), ‘A Walk on the Wild (Edibles) Side’
- Tour de France [Ed.: The other day they finished on a uphill grade of >10%, probably more like 15%. Sprinting up a 15% grade?! Amazing.]
Economics
- Chris Dillow, The Something for Nothing Culture
- Josh Barro (NYT), The Inevitable, Indispensable Property Tax
- Dean Baker, Quick Thoughts on Wage Stagnation
- Roosevelt Institute, Rewriting the Rules
- Roosevelt Institute, A Vision of the Economy of 2040 (The Next American Economy)