Must Read
- Andrew Gelman, “The great advantage of the model-based over the ad hoc approach, it seems to me, is that at any given time we know what we are doing.”
- Jared Bernstein, The Risk of Insular Wonkiness
- Joseph Stiglitz, The Myth of America’s Golden Age: What growing up in Gary, Indiana, taught me about inequality
Should Read/Listen
- Sarah Kliff, What is single-payer health care?
- Danielle Kurtzleben, What does GDP measure? – Everything you need to know about GDP
- On Point with Tom Ashbrook, Private Stocks And ‘Dark Pools’ In American Finance
- Jim Tankersley and Jeff Guo, Congrats, America. You have less economic opportunity than you did in 1970
- John Nichols, Presidential Prospect or Not, Elizabeth Warren Has a Lesson for Democrats
Environment and Energy
- Katie Valentine, Not Eating Meat Can Cut Your Food-Related Carbon Emissions Almost In Half, Study Finds
- Scientific American, Leaky Methane Makes Natural Gas Bad for Global Warming
- Joe Romm, A New Wind Turbine Generates Back The Energy It Takes To Build It In Just 6 Months
- The California Weather Blog, California’s record-warmest year worsens exceptional drought; El Niño continues to develop in Pacific
- New England WILD: News and Insights on Conserving Native Plants and Their Habitats, Spring/Summer 2014 issue
Economics and Politics
- NY Times Editorial Board, Lawsuit The Dark Pool Iceberg: Lawsuit Against Barclays Shows Need for More Scrutiny (CG: NY AG Schneiderman’s lawsuit against Barclay’s here)
- Jared Bernstein, Whoa! Whassup With That Big Negative Q1 GDP Revision?
- Jared Bernstein, Mankiw, Piketty, and Wealth Taxes
- Nick Hanauer, The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
- Mark Thoma, Making the case for industrial policy
Human Interest