February Jobs Report

• The jobs report, in seven charts, Dylan Matthews
• Employment Report Comments and More Graphs, Bill McBride
• A Good Employment Report This Month; A Bad Labor Market, Brad DeLong
• Deeper Dive into the Jobs Report: Labor Force Participation and Weekly Earnings, Jared Bernstein
• Job Growth Picks Up Steam in February, Dean Baker

(Un)Employment

• Corporate Profits Soar as Worker Income Limps, Nelson Schwartz
• With Positions to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection, Catherine Rampell
• The “New Unemployables”:  Older Job Seekers Struggle to Find Work During the Great Recession, Maria Heidkamp, Nicole Corre, and Carl E. Van Horn
• Why There’s a Bull Market for Stocks And Bear Market for Workers, Robert Reich

Economic Policy

• A Stealth Tax Subsidy for Business Faces New Scrutiny, Mary Williams Walsh and Louise Story
• Debt Overhangs: Past and Present, Carmen M. Reinhart, Vincent R. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff.  A reality-based although apparently easily refuted argument against expansionary (Keynesian) fiscal policy.
• The Current State of the Macro Policy Debate, Brad DeLong.  DeLong rebuts the Reinhart-Rogoff argument and others.
• Banks Pass Fed’s [Stress] Tests; Critics Say It Was Easy, Peter Eavis and Ben Protess
• No, the United States Will Never, Ever Turn Into Greece, Matthew O’Brien
• Why We Don’t Need to Pay Down the National Debt, James Galbraith.  Put that in your pipe and smoke Bowles and Simpson.

Taxation

• State Taxes and the Tax Debate, Jared Bernstein.  State tax burdens have not increased since 2000.
• Boy, Are Americans Not Overtaxed: New CBO Data, Jared Bernstein.  “…when it comes to federal taxation, there is just no case in the data to be made in any way, shape or form that we Americans are overtaxed.”

Sequestration

• Smart Talk on Sequester Myths, Jared Bernstein

Economic Policy History

• Five Myths About Obama’s Stimulus, Michael Grunwald
• 11 shocking, true facts about Simpson-Bowles, Ezra Klein
• The Five Serious Flaws of Bowles-Simpson, Ethan Pollack
• The [late 1990’s] Stock Bubble Created the [Clinton] Budget Surplus: Not Bill Clinton’s Tax and Spending Policies, Dean Baker

Politics

• Why politicians ignore economists on austerity, Simon Wren-Lewis

Health Care

• Medical costs are on the rise, putting at risk state’s efforts to tie health spending growth to economy, Robert Weisman

Science

• Big Data or Pig Data?  (A fable on huge amounts of data and why we don’t need models), Realm of the SCENSCI.  See also comments at Error Statistics Philosophy.