TokyoTalisman: 2016

Some thoughts the day after the election | The Incidental Economist:

Let me say this for the record: President-elect Trump will be my President. I may not always like�everything he says or does, but from this moment on, he will be given the same respect in my writing that I afford President Obama. I want him to do well�because he represents my country, and his actions will affect my fellow citizens, my state, and my family. I hope he surrounds himself with knowledgeable advisors, especially when it comes to health care. We should applaud their commitment, and support them in their efforts to serve our nation.

I am sure I will not always agree with them. But I will remain civil, and I will try and convince them to do what I think the evidence says is right.

I hope you’ll all join us in that effort.

Current Affairs | Culture & Politics

Donald Trump is moving to the White House, and liberals put him there | Thomas Frank | Opinion | The Guardian

What investors misunderstand about the politics of rage

If Trump wins, what is the best theory of why? - Marginal REVOLUTION

Forget Canada. Stay and Fight for American Democracy.

Monday, November 07, 2016

2016’s Big Reveal - WSJ

Tim Hayward’s seven essential kitchen knives

Donald Trump’s success reveals a frightening weakness in American democracy - Vox

Sunday, November 06, 2016

Latina Hotel Workers Harness Force of Labor and of Politics in Las Vegas - The New York Times

Saturday, November 05, 2016

How Trump Took Hate Groups Mainstream | Mother Jones

In 1 Unscripted Moment, Hillary Clinton Finds Joy in the Rain - The New York Times

Cubs win! Cubs win!: America’s longest sporting curse is laid to rest | The Economist

Imagining America on Nov. 9 - The New York Times

Relaxation techniques: Breath control helps quell errant stress response - Harvard Health

Tom Nichols: What Trump has already cost America - NY Daily News

TheMoneyIllusion � Why no China crash? Wrong question

The Unintended Ways Self-Driving Cars Will Change Our World – The Startup – Medium

The Money Management Gospel of Yale’s Endowment Guru - The New York Times

Why I Have No Sympathy for Angry White Men | Dame Magazine

Anxious about the election? Here’s some perspective. - The Washington Post

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Sebastian Mallaby’s biography of Alan Greenspan | Brookings Institution

Saturday, October 29, 2016

The Final Days of Trump’s Unprecedented Campaign

War and Peace and Coffee | The Kitchen Sisters

No One Is Looking at This Headline - The New York Times

Friday, October 28, 2016

Swap Traders and Stop Orders - Bloomberg View

I did it for my shareholders: Martin Shkreli has Lunch with the FT

Ewen Whitaker, Who Guided NASA to the Moon, Dies at 94 - The New York Times

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Donald Trump may find a place in history — by losing just that badly - The Washington Post

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Bob Hoover, pilot who escaped POW camp by stealing a German plane, dies at 94 - The Washington Post

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The Mellow Heuristic, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

If You’re Thinking of Voting for Donald Trump, Read This First | GQ

Election Update: Why Our Model Is More Bullish Than Others On Trump | FiveThirtyEight

My Former Republican Party - WSJ

How to Rebuild the Republican Party - The Atlantic

Obama Was Right About Republican Extremism All Along | New Republic

The barbarian establishment | The Economist

Alistair Urquhart, Death Railway survivor – obituary

Hillary Clinton’s Plan to Squeeze the Ultra-Rich - The New Yorker

SNL’s “Black Jeopardy!” sketch was the most astute analysis of American politics in 2016.

Monday, October 24, 2016

In Japan, More Women Fight to Use Their Own Surnames - The New York Times

New York’s Latest Must-Have Luxury Apartment Craze Is Driveways - Bloomberg

21 maps and charts that will change how you think about the election - Vox

Budapest: 60 Years After The Uprising - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Friday, October 21, 2016

Donald Trump’s Alt-Right Supporters: Internet Abuse Must End | National Review

The One and Only Texas Wind Boom

Changing course: a harder sell for MBAs

Stumbling and Mumbling: The upside of relative decline

Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy: The stock market looks cheap

Monday, October 17, 2016

The Dying Business of Picking Stocks - WSJ

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Info Capture: Alumni Careers Pivot in a Decade — Slice of MIT from the MIT Alumni Association

Friday, October 14, 2016

Even after Trump loses, the GOP is still toast - The Washington Post

Against The Wall on Vimeo

Watch: Michelle Obama’s powerful speech on the Trump sexual assault allegations - Vox

Thursday, October 13, 2016

TheMoneyIllusion � Now the fun starts

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Where Do Clinton and Trump Have the Most Upside? | FiveThirtyEight

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

A Great Fight of Our Times - The New York Times

Renaissance Technologies: Hedge Fund on a $7 Billion Winning Streak - WSJ

Dear Donald Trump: I played in the NFL. Here’s what we really talk about in the locker room. - Vox

Speak Truth to Trump | Christianity Today

For Many Women, Trump’s ‘Locker Room Talk’ Brings Memories of Abuse - The New York Times

Monday, October 10, 2016

Pressing Issues: The Silence of the Lambs

Sunday, October 09, 2016

Many men talk like Donald Trump in private. And only other men can stop them. - The Washington Post

Donald and Billy on the Bus - The New York Times

The life and death of Trumpian America

You Knew Who Trump Was When You Endorsed Him, Republican Leaders | Huffington Post

Friday, October 07, 2016

Forget the gloom: remember what technology has done for you

Demagogues reach beyond the bigots

Clear Writing Produces Clearer Thoughts – Paul Romer

Thursday, October 06, 2016

Six Reasons Conservatives Should Not Vote for Donald Trump

The way ahead | The Economist

The Dangerous Acceptance of Donald Trump - The New Yorker

Implicit bias is real. Don’t be so defensive, Mike Pence.

Call Centers in India Posed as I.R.S. to Cheat U.S. Taxpayers, Authorities Say - The New York Times

Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Why Are Politicians So Obsessed With Manufacturing? - The New York Times

Friday, September 30, 2016

TheMoneyIllusion � Trump and the markets

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Donald Trump’s experts are basing his trade policy on a remarkably silly mistake - Vox

Forget Trump’s temperament and Clinton’s stamina. Voters care less and less about candidates’ personalities - The Washington Post

The case against esoteric Trumpism

In ‘Hitler,’ an Ascent From ‘Dunderhead’ to Demagogue - The New York Times

Monday, September 26, 2016

Donald Trump and the Seven Broken Guardrails of Democracy - The Atlantic

Why we can't have great presidents anymore (Opinion) - CNN.com

Obama is a great president.

Why we can't have great presidents anymore (Opinion) - CNN.com

The Ten Attributes of Great Fundamental Investors - Michael J. Mauboussin | Deep Value Stock Screener - The Acquirer's Multiple�

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

How to Maintain Your Professional Network Over the Years

Thursday, September 08, 2016

NewsDiffs | Diffing: Candidates Flex Debate Muscles During TV Forum

Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Exclusive: How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down | Vanity Fair

Video killed the radio star | Chicago Booth Review

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): A toddler solves the tricky "trolley problem"

Monday, September 05, 2016

Fewer Unions, Lower Pay for Everybody - The Atlantic

Introducing a New Series: Trump and the Truth - The New Yorker

U1, U3, and U6

How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead - The New York Times

10 Money Revelations in My 30s

Thursday, September 01, 2016

How Apple Helped Create Ireland’s Economies, Real and Fantastical - The New Yorker

Donald Trump is never going to stop being Donald Trump - Vox

Could reducing tax cheating close the deficit? - The Washington Post

Digitopoly | Ten Open Questions for the Techno-Optimist

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Noahpinion: Books to help you understand Japan

The Polarization Of Red And Blue States From McGovern To Trump, In One Chart | FiveThirtyEight

Mother of three survives car crash — only to be gunned down by the other driver, police say - The Washington Post

Why Donald Trump is going to Mexico - The Washington Post

Mylan Announces Generic EpiPen; Baffles Health Policy Wonks Everywhere | Bill of Health

Steven Mnuchin Businessweek Profile - Bloomberg Politics

Does Killing Terrorist Leaders Make Any Difference? Scholars Are Doubtful - The New York Times

Monday, August 29, 2016

Ten Insane Things We Believe On Wall Street

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Shh. It’s Naptime at Ikea in China. - The New York Times

Saturday, August 27, 2016

‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias - The New York Times

Friday, August 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s strongest argument against Donald Trump, in one sentence - Vox

Lunch with the FT: Roger Stone - FT.com

Crazy white guy.

Lunch with the FT: Roger Stone - FT.com

World’s biggest pension fund blames Brexit for $52bn quarterly loss - FT.com

And I thought I had a tough spring.

World’s biggest pension fund blames Brexit for $52bn quarterly loss - FT.com

Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada - POLITICO

Thursday, August 25, 2016

What Kind of Man Spends Millions to Elect Ted Cruz? - Bloomberg Politics

How to visit nearly every national park in one epic road trip - The Washington Post

I Spent 5 Years With Some of Trump's Biggest Fans. Here's What They Won't Tell You. | Mother Jones

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

The absence of skill | FT Alphaville

Or just index.

The absence of skill | FT Alphaville

Monday, August 22, 2016

The Luxe Cycling Tour in Japan That Will Make You a Better Rider - WSJ

Counter-protesters join kimono fray at MFA - The Boston Globe

Ikuko Burns introduced me to Japan.

Counter-protesters join kimono fray at MFA - The Boston Globe

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month - Bloomberg

Joseph Goebbels’ 105-year-old secretary: ‘No one believes me now, but I knew nothing’ | World news | The Guardian

Memos from Howard Marks

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Vt. Candidates Outspend Past Gov. Races

Outside money controls local elections.

Vt. Candidates Outspend Past Gov. Races

Top Trump Attorney on Universally Terrible Poll Numbers: "Says Who?"

Monday, August 15, 2016

Why I don’t think it makes sense to attribute Trump’s support to economic anxiety - Vox

Things I’m Pretty Sure About -- The Motley Fool

Review: In ‘Jason Bourne,’ a Midlife Crisis for a Harried Former Assassin - The New York Times

Review: In ‘Jason Bourne,’ a Midlife Crisis for a Harried Former Assassin - The New York Times

"a movie about human resources challenges in a large bureaucracy."

" a meditation on the crisis of the gen-x professional in the throes of middle age"

Saturday, August 13, 2016

How to Live Wisely - The New York Times

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

How the U.S. Crushed the Competition in the Women’s Gymnastics Team Final - The New York Times

Trump's Assassination Dog Whistle Was Scarier Than You Think - Rolling Stone

Will the Republican Party Survive the 2016 Election? - The Atlantic

Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Why We Pine for Manufacturing - The New Yorker

Trump disagrees with every position held by Trump / Boing Boing

On ‘heterodox’ macroeconomics — Medium

Monday, August 08, 2016

Roger Ailes Sexually Harassed Me. I Thought I Was The First and Last - The Daily Beast

Harvard's Endowment Needs the Classics - Bloomberg Gadfly

Maine sees a Somalian community starkly different than what Donald Trump portrayed - The Boston Globe

CSFB Ten attributes of Great Investors

https://doc.research-and-analytics.csfb.com/docView?language=ENG&format=PDF&source_id=em&document_id=1063945621&serialid=1wRGyN6EnJdsEAzicRfCQyDmuExS84d2HcYRBRMNZJ8%3d

Tuesday, August 02, 2016

College Endowments Seen Posting Worst Returns Since 2009 - Bloomberg

‘I Have No Choice but to Keep Looking’ - The New York Times

Are Final Clubs Too Exclusive for Harvard? - The New York Times

Joe McCarthy was brought down by attacks on his decency. Trump will lose the same way. - The Washington Post

Monday, August 01, 2016

Ghazala Khan: Trump criticized my silence. He knows nothing about true sacrifice. - The Washington Post

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Republicans, Democrats and the disunited states - FT.com

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Both Campaigns Stunned After Houston Chronicle Makes VERY Surprising Endorsement

Trump Time Capsule #65: 'I'd Like to Hear the Wife Say Something' - The Atlantic

In Tribute to Son, Khizr Khan Offered Citizenship Lesson at Convention - The New York Times

Friday, July 29, 2016

Why Donald Trump's Supporters Think He'll Win - The Atlantic

The Unraveling of Harvard’s Star Trading Desk - Bloomberg

Who Loves America? - The New York Times

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Kenneth O'Friel, Men's Lacrosse, Bates College - NESCAC

Democrats have stolen the GOP's best rhetoric — and Republicans have noticed - Vox

Obama’s Democratic convention speech showed he knows his legacy is on the line - Vox

Michael Bloomberg sums up election in DNC speech - Business Insider

5 takeaways from Obama’s last convention - POLITICO

Obama Bets on America to Save Democracy Again | New Republic

Obama Passes Baton of Optimism to Clinton - The New York Times

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Have we stopped to appreciate how crazy Donald Trump has gotten recently? - Vox

Donald Trump's Plea to Russian Hackers Roils the Campaign - NBC News

Certifiable evil and crazy.

Donald Trump's Plea to Russian Hackers Roils the Campaign - NBC News

Why Sand Is the Oil Industry’s Bellwether - WSJ

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Congressional Muslim Terrorism Hearings: the Mathematical Witness Transcript — Development Research Institute

Blaming Trade and Voting Trump in the Rust Belt - The New York Times

Trump's Appetite for Destruction: How Disastrous Convention Doomed GOP - Rolling Stone

5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win | MICHAEL MOORE

Thursday, July 21, 2016

GOP in Chaos Must Decide Whether to Elect Madman -- NYMag

How Suzuki Became Ichiro - WSJ

Maybe I’d have more, but maybe I’d have less.

How Suzuki Became Ichiro - WSJ

U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad - The New York Times

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Trump Vets Adviser: Clinton "Should Be Put In The Firing Line And Shot For Treason" - BuzzFeed News

HSBC Foreign-Exchange Executive Arrested at JFK, Charged With Front-Running Order - WSJ

How Renewable Energy Is Blowing Climate Change Efforts Off Course - The New York Times

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

US police shootings: How many die each year? - BBC News

Who Will Be President? - The New York Times

The GOP Is the Party of Death | New Republic

Bank of America Plans More Cost Cuts, as Earnings Slide - WSJ

What You Like Falls on Party Lines - WSJ.com

Adam Sandler?

What You Like Falls on Party Lines - WSJ.com

Life is good

due to vaccines

https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Vaccine-%E2%80%93-Reduction-of-Cases-and-Deaths.pdf

Defense Budgets and Markets & Japan - The Big Picture

Jason Bourne vs James Bond — FT.com

Joni Ernst and Tom Cotton: When Conspiracy Theories Don't Fit the Media Narrative - The Atlantic

What, Congressman Steve King Asks, Have Nonwhites Done for Civilization? - The New York Times

This mashup of Melania Trump reading text plagiarized from Michelle Obama is incredibly damaging. | New Republic

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Lunch with the FT: Eddie Jones — FT.com

Friday, July 15, 2016

A Propagator of Race Hatred and Violence

Thursday, July 14, 2016

An Open Letter From Tech Leaders on Donald Trump’s Presidential Bid | WIRED

How Trumpism hid in plain sight for 15 years

Caesar’s Wife Must Be Above Suspicion

What High-fee Funds Can Learn from the Curse of the Cubs

Can I interrogate this photograph? Can I hold it here in front of me, arrested? — Photos We Love — Medium

Howard Raiffa, Mathematician Who Studied Decision Making, Dies at 92 - The New York Times

Japan’s Military - Bloomberg QuickTake

Cravath, Swaine & Moore Names Faiza Saeed as Presiding Partner - WSJ

For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance - The New York Times

Saturday, July 09, 2016

The Surprising History of the Infographic | History | Smithsonian

Letter from E.B. White - Marginal REVOLUTION

Lunch with the FT: Philip Tetlock — FT.com

Friday, July 08, 2016

The Uncomfortable Reason Why it Came to This in Dallas Yesterday | RedState

The Counted: people killed by police in the United States – interactive | US news | The Guardian

A Shot in the Arm for Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative

Thursday, July 07, 2016

Norm Coleman: I will never vote for Donald Trump - StarTribune.com

Wednesday, July 06, 2016

Baghdad Bombing: Iraq Is the World Capital of Terrorism - The Atlantic

Learning to Appreciate Disagreement at Work

New Video Emerges of Alton Sterling Being Killed by Baton Rouge Police - The Daily Beast

New poll: Voter worries about immigration mostly aren’t about the economy - Vox

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Self-Driving Car Ethics

The incredible things that had to go just right for Juno to reach Jupiter — Quartz

The UK will miss unskilled migrants after Brexit — FT.com

Almost All Managers Have at Least One Career-Limiting Habit

“You’re Being Cheated, and We’re Going to Protect You”

Why So Many Missed the Nationalist Surge - WSJ

After Attacks on Muslims, Many Ask: Where Is the Outpouring? - The New York Times

Muslims Worldwide Come to Grips With a Bloody Ramadan - The New York Times

Wigan’s Road to ‘Brexit’: Anger, Loss and Class Resentments - The New York Times

Tuesday, July 05, 2016

An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, From One of Your Jewish Employees | | Observer

Conservatives’ Silence After Trump’s Anti-Semitic Attack Is a Bad Omen | New Republic

F.B.I. Recommends No Charges Against Hillary Clinton for Use of Personal Email - The New York Times

Is Sushi ‘Healthy’? What About Granola? Where Americans and Nutritionists Disagree - The New York Times

Struggles in a Steel Town Highlighted by Donald Trump - The New York Times

Adding Classes and Content, Resurgent Libraries Turn a Whisper Into a Roar - The New York Times

Having lots of friends sounds good but it can be hard work — FT.com

Monday, July 04, 2016

Trump Days - The New Yorker

Michael Gove’s guide to Britain’s greatest enemy... the experts

To Protect and Defend - The American Interest

Gun violence is a public health issue | News | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: Trying to Envision the Original United States

Sunday, July 03, 2016

Harvard Professors Recommend Summer Reads | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson

Jim Simons: The Mathematician Who Cracked Wall Street - The Big Picture

Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at 87 - The New York Times

Donald Trump's "Star of David" Hillary Clinton Meme Was Created by White Supremacists

Why do you make stupid decisions when the experts tell you otherwise?

Richard Feynman on Teaching Math to Kids and the Lessons of Knowledge

Friday, July 01, 2016

Continuing to Grow our Technology Leadership Position | Citadel

Harvard makes good business sense for Sharapova — FT.com

U.S. Says Airstrikes Aimed at Terrorists Outside Combat Zones Killed as Many as 116 Civilians in 7 Years - WSJ

New Study Claims Corporate Executives Intentionally Mislead Investors for Personal Gain - Bloomberg

Noahpinion: Some stuff economists tend to leave out

Why we no longer trust the experts — FT.com

Elizabeth Warren Should Stay in the Senate | The Nation

Social scientists need to learn from their Brexit blunder, so we can learn from them — Quartz

10-year JGB yields hit record low — FT.com

Never short JGBs. Part CI

10-year JGB yields hit record low — FT.com

Thursday, June 30, 2016

This 'Glamping' Resort Has The Most Epic View In All Of Japan

The Challenges of Male Friendships - The New York Times

Tyson's Rationalia Pragmatism Rehash | National Review

most meaningful political disputes are fundamentally disputes over competing values.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437339/tysons-rationalia-pragmatism-rehash

Tyson's Rationalia Pragmatism Rehash | National Review

Trump, Brexit, and Populism Without Redemption - Xenophobia, Bigotry Are Not Democratic Progress

Mark Takano Thinks Gay Men Can Learn From Jane Austen - The New York Times

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Lewis' book offers provocative analysis on slavery and civil rights - StarTribune.com

Think that racism is still not a problem in America? Think again.

Lewis' book offers provocative analysis on slavery and civil rights - StarTribune.com

What are the other lessons of the Brexit vote? - Marginal REVOLUTION

Of course the Brexiters didn’t plan. Arsonists never carry water | Rafael Behr | Opinion | The Guardian

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

We Visited The Town Where 75.6% Of People Voted To Leave The EU - BuzzFeed News

Marginal REVOLUTION — Small Steps Toward A Much Better World

Arguments about regulation might kill driverless cars.

Marginal REVOLUTION — Small Steps Toward A Much Better World

Satyajit Das: What If Anything Does Brexit Really Signify? | naked capitalism

For Detroit’s Children, More School Choice but Not Better Schools - The New York Times

Monday, June 27, 2016

Pro-‘Brexit’ City of Sunderland Glad to Poke Establishment in the Eye - The New York Times

How Brexit shattered progressives' dearest illusions

Brexit has locked us millennials out of the union we voted for — FT.com

Regulating Cars Made Them Safer. Can We Do the Same with Guns? | New Republic

Brexit was fueled by irrational xenophobia, not real economic grievances - Vox

Blaming Elites For The Rise Of Populism - Forbes

The Collapse of the Liberal World Order | Foreign Policy

Few quick thoughts on Brexit — Medium

Why Brexit happened and what it means - Marginal REVOLUTION

Trump and the Racial Politics of the South

finance

How Housing’s New Players Spiraled Into Banks’ Old Mistakes - The New York Times

Sunday, June 26, 2016

TheMoneyIllusion � Trump: Even worse than we thought

I cannot stress too much that Britain is part of Europe – and always will be �

How to Un-Hypnotize a Rabid Anti-Trumper | Scott Adams' Blog

How the Gun Control Debate Ignores Black Lives - ProPublica

Why we are ruder at work than we are in the street — FT.com

Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit - Political Economy Research Centre

Brexit Wins | Mother Jones

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Gun Threats and Self-Defense Gun Use | Harvard Injury Control Research Center | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Lunch with the FT: Nigel Farage — FT.com

Brexit: Why The U.K. Left the European Union - The Atlantic

Friday, June 24, 2016

The morning after the Brexit vote, Nigel Farrage admits he lied about money for the NHS / Boing Boing

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Three shirts, four pairs of trousers: meet Japan's 'hardcore' minimalists | World news | The Guardian

Goldman Sachs to drop on-campus interviews — FT.com

Hedge Fund Still Wants Its Tax-Avoidance Profits - Bloomberg View

Watch This Freakishly Agile Dog-Bot Do the Dishes

Stumbling and Mumbling: Beyond meritocracy

The ‘Anti-Business’ President Who's Been Good for Business

David Thatcher, Part of ’42 Doolittle Raid on Japan, Dies at 94 - The New York Times

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

The Strategy That Donald Trump Borrowed From Ann Coulter - The Atlantic

Paul Ryan Is Trying To Shut Down Reps' Live Streams From Sit-In | Crooks and Liars

The New Panama Canal: A Risky Bet - The New York Times

When the Poverty Industry Seeks Profit - The Atlantic

Photography — Tokyo Times

How to Tell a Coworker They’re Annoying You

Inside Trump's Most Valuable Tower: Felons, Dictators and Girl Scouts

Japan spooked by naval mystery in East China Sea — FT.com

White House issues report on President Obama's impact on science and tech / Boing Boing

When Products Talk - The New Yorker

Why Brexit would be a history-defining, irreversible mistake | Larry Summers

In College Turmoil, Signs of a Changed Relationship With Students - The New York Times

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Getting Serious About Trumponomics - The New Yorker

How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation’s Most Dangerous Neighborhood - POLITICO Magazine

There's Great News on Inequality and Poverty - Bloomberg View

Try to scroll through this graphic and you’ll understand America’s gun problem

Algorithm for Sales Traders

Wait but. If you are trying to buy stock, calling the people who own a lot of that stock is not, you know, that creative. "Call the top five holders of a stock" is literally an algorithm. It is hard to make a robot chat application that can be convincingly human, but it's easy to make a robot chat application that can select the top five holders of a stock and message them "Ahoy friend, I see you own 5,000,000 shares of XYZ stock, do you fancy getting out of it? Good news, the Huskies won last night's game."

Shareholders, Directors and Traders - Bloomberg View

The Fed May Not See It, But There's Reason for Optimism - Bloomberg View

Ten simple rules to use statistics effectively | EurekAlert! Science News

mainly macro: More on Brexit and the politicisation of truth

Will Trump Swallow the G.O.P. Whole? - The New York Times

Monday, June 20, 2016

Intern tips from hedge fund Citadel - Business Insider

Special: United States of Trump - How Donald Trump Took Over the Republican Party - NBC News

Making a Killing - The New Yorker

We need more gun control, not just assault rifles.

Making a Killing - The New Yorker

Wall Street donors seek to block Warren VP pick - POLITICO

Expect the worst: Fed officials try to understand why they cannot keep raising rates | The Economist

LeBron James denied the Warriors with a ridiculous game-saving block | For The Win

Barry Latzer on Why Crime Rises and Falls - The Atlantic

A Tale of Two Parties - The New York Times

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Science says dancing with friends is good for your health — Quartz

Dance more.

Science says dancing with friends is good for your health — Quartz

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Historians, Police and Others Argue What Makes Orlando Massacre ‘Worst’ - The New York Times

Friday, June 17, 2016

What gun control advocates can learn from the abolitionists who helped end slavery.

Making Sense of the Rise and Impact of Donald Trump | Scholars Strategy Network

Why You Should Travel When You’re Young And Broke — Medium

Selling Donald Trump — FT.com

GOP elites hoping that Trump will be another frontman like W.

Selling Donald Trump — FT.com

The Disadvantages of Being Stupid - The Atlantic

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Ed -- A Petition For Stronger Gun Laws - YouTube

Musket

Ed -- A Petition For Stronger Gun Laws - YouTube

Boston Globe editorial -- gun control -- ban assault weapons - The Boston Globe

Hedge-Fund Consultant Bantered for Insider Information - Bloomberg View

Another Levine how-to insider trade.

Hedge-Fund Consultant Bantered for Insider Information - Bloomberg View

New Yorker

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52a74ecde4b01bb79a769329/t/575d922e7da24f2981092db0/1465750080617/Neu+Jorker%2C+Singles%2C+Lo-res.pdf?hootPostID=7874f19311b7ee893fdd42f78d60bd71

A huge international study of gun control finds strong evidence that it actually works - Vox

There’s a Disconnect in Americans’ Worry About Terrorism - The New York Times

We are winning.

There’s a Disconnect in Americans’ Worry About Terrorism - The New York Times

To the bright and the rich of Silicon Valley, Trump is a loser — FT.com

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Honest Graft: The Democratic Endgame Begins (Or, How Trump Undercuts Sanders's Leverage)

How China Won the Keys to Disney’s Magic Kingdom - The New York Times

Obama’s Defining Attack on Trump and Trumpism - The New Yorker

One Person, One Gun - The New Yorker

Why Not Up the Mississippi?: Outtake from Cohen and DeLong, Concrete Economics - Equitable Growth

U.S. Chamber Out of Step With Its Board, Report Finds - The New York Times

Bill O'Reilly: It's Too Easy to Get 'High-Powered Weaponry' in America - Breitbart

Pigs do fly: Bill O'Reilly comes out for more gun control.

Bill O'Reilly: It's Too Easy to Get 'High-Powered Weaponry' in America - Breitbart

6 Ways to Disagree with Senior Management

Monday, June 13, 2016

Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech revealed a dangerous mix of ignorance and arrogance - Vox

Saturday, June 11, 2016

The Mistrust of Science - The New Yorker

Friday, June 10, 2016

Avoid most hedge funds to make money - Business Insider

Everyone who invests in hedge funds will tell you that they are investing only in the best...

Avoid most hedge funds to make money - Business Insider

Is the US economy healthy? — Roger E. A. Farmer

Thursday, June 09, 2016

Why is Jesus white? - Muhammad Ali - YouTube

GDP - per capita (PPP) - Country Comparison

The trouble with statistics:

Iceland has a higher per capita GDP than Germany, Denmark or UK. Not sure that I saw that anywhere.

And Japan?

GDP - per capita (PPP) - Country Comparison

How to Disagree with Someone More Powerful than You

Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players

China, for example, got healthy before it got wealthy.

Hopefully good news for Africa as health improvements are dramatically occurring.

Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players

Wednesday, June 08, 2016

Why Republicans Won’t Renounce Trump - The New York Times

Hillary Clinton Makes History and Finds Her Voice - The New Yorker

Inside the bitter last days of Bernie's revolution - POLITICO

Bitter old man.

Inside the bitter last days of Bernie's revolution - POLITICO

Institutional Investors are Delusional | Meb Faber Research - Stock Market and Investing Blog

Delusional is not the right word.

Institutional Investors are Delusional | Meb Faber Research - Stock Market and Investing Blog

Tuesday, June 07, 2016

Chasing a Vision of Japan - The New York Times

Sometimes Embracing Emotional Distress Is the Best Medicine - Scientific American Blog Network

Metros by the numbers: How D.C. stacks up against other capital cities - The Washington Post

Voting Mistakes and Financial Choice - Bloomberg View

Voting Mistakes and Financial Choice - Bloomberg View

Which type are you?

Elsewhere in The Kids These Days, "Goldman Sachs attracted more than a quarter of a million applications from students and graduates for jobs this summer, suggesting fears of a ‘brain drain’ in the sector may be exaggerated as banks introduce more employee-friendly policies." You could sort of imagine three types of undergraduate investment banking applicants:

The person who wants to work 100 hours a week on front-page deals while making piles of money.
The person who likes the idea of getting 36 hours off every weekend.
The person who applies for banking jobs because it's sort of what is expected in certain Ivy League majors and sports teams.

The declining compensation and increasing leisure in banking may be attracting more applicants of Type 2 and fewer of Type 1, which might change the culture a bit. But Type 3 should be pretty unaffected by the changes, and might be the dominant type.

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