John Oliver Finally Takes on "Serial Liar" Donald Trump and It's Brutally Fantastic | Mother Jones

John Oliver Finally Takes on "Serial Liar" Donald Trump and It's Brutally Fantastic | Mother Jones

White Elephant Students and Charters: A Proposal | educationrealist

White Elephant Students and Charters: A Proposal | educationrealist

Trump has the White House in his sights — FT.com

Trump has the White House in his sights — FT.com

Donald Trump Confronts Conservatives With an Existential Crisis | New Republic

Donald Trump Confronts Conservatives With an Existential Crisis | New Republic

Chris Rock Just Gave a Brilliant and Brave Oscar Speech About Hollywood Racism | Mother Jones

Chris Rock Just Gave a Brilliant and Brave Oscar Speech About Hollywood Racism | Mother Jones

Joe Scarborough: Trump's KKK ignorance 'disqualifying' - POLITICO

Joe Scarborough: Trump's KKK ignorance 'disqualifying' - POLITICO

Calculated Risk: Possible Reasons for the Decline in Prime-Working Age Men Labor Force Participation

Calculated Risk: Possible Reasons for the Decline in Prime-Working Age Men Labor Force Participation

Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman Sees Windfall - WSJ

Very, very rough but the way he has structured his compensation means that he pays

around 100 million in tax. If taxed at ordinary rates he would pay over 300 million. And I bet he pays even less.



Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman Sees Windfall - WSJ

Reading This While You Drive Could Increase Your Risk of Crashing Tenfold - The New York Times

Reading This While You Drive Could Increase Your Risk of Crashing Tenfold - The New York Times

How AQR’s Liquid Alternative Funds Are Outperforming Competitors - Barron's

How AQR’s Liquid Alternative Funds Are Outperforming Competitors - Barron's

What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team - The New York Times

What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team - The New York Times

Scalia Took Dozens of Trips Funded by Private Sponsors - The New York Times

Scalia Took Dozens of Trips Funded by Private Sponsors - The New York Times

Watch five years of oil drilling collapse in seconds. The oil crash has taken its toll.

Watch five years of oil drilling collapse in seconds. The oil crash has taken its toll.

Trump is the GOP’s Frankenstein monster. Now he’s strong enough to destroy the party. - The Washington Post

Trump is the GOP’s Frankenstein monster. Now he’s strong enough to destroy the party. - The Washington Post

Setting drug prices: How much is an extra month of life worth?

Setting drug prices: How much is an extra month of life worth?

Inside the Republican Party’s Desperate Mission to Stop Donald Trump - The New York Times

Inside the Republican Party’s Desperate Mission to Stop Donald Trump - The New York Times

A neuroscientist says there’s a powerful benefit to exercise that is rarely discussed - Quartz

A neuroscientist says there’s a powerful benefit to exercise that is rarely discussed - Quartz

How to Make Eggs - NYT Cooking

How to Make Eggs - NYT Cooking

25 Things About Life I Wish I Had Known 10 Years Ago | Observer

My top 5

2.

5.

7.

17.

24.



What are yours?



25 Things About Life I Wish I Had Known 10 Years Ago | Observer

How to Get Tenure | Foreign Policy

How to Get Tenure | Foreign Policy

3 Steps to Brewing a Better Cup of Coffee - The New York Times

3 Steps to Brewing a Better Cup of Coffee - The New York Times

Watch the Next Generation Atlas Robot Get Bullied By A Mean Human (And Stay On His Feet)

Watch the Next Generation Atlas Robot Get Bullied By A Mean Human (And Stay On His Feet)

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Every GOP candidate is wrong about political correctness - The Washington Post

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Every GOP candidate is wrong about political correctness - The Washington Post

Keeping Anxious Thoughts at Bay

Keeping Anxious Thoughts at Bay

Two Superpowers We Wish We Had | Bill Gates

Two Superpowers We Wish We Had | Bill Gates

Economic Research | The Right Profile: Economic Drivers and the Outlook

Economic Research | The Right Profile: Economic Drivers and the Outlook

A New Breed of Trader on Wall Street: Coder With a Ph.D. - The New York Times

A New Breed of Trader on Wall Street: Coder With a Ph.D. - The New York Times

Sovereign Wealth Funds May Sell $404 Billion of Equities - Bloomberg Business

Sovereign Wealth Funds May Sell $404 Billion of Equities - Bloomberg Business

Eric Brown, Record-Breaking British Pilot and World War II Hero, Dies at 97 - The New York Times

Eric Brown, Record-Breaking British Pilot and World War II Hero, Dies at 97 - The New York Times

My Parents, My Landlords - The New York Times

My Parents, My Landlords - The New York Times

When to stop dating and settle down, according to math - The Washington Post

When to stop dating and settle down, according to math - The Washington Post

The relationship between stocks and oil prices | Brookings Institution

The relationship between stocks and oil prices | Brookings Institution

How a Generation Lost Its Common Culture | Minding The Campus

How a Generation Lost Its Common Culture | Minding The Campus

In Praise of the Wonk: Dissecting the CEA Letter and Sanders's Other Proposals - Roosevelt Institute

In Praise of the Wonk: Dissecting the CEA Letter and Sanders's Other Proposals - Roosevelt Institute

Today's Life Lessons - The Big Picture

Today's Life Lessons - The Big Picture

The Market is Always Right? | PensionPartners.com

The Market is Always Right? | PensionPartners.com

St. Louis Fed

Bullard
https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/Files/PDFs/Bullard/remarks/Bullard-CFA-StLouis-17Feb2016.pdf

The real problem is a nominal problem – also in 2016 | The Market Monetarist

Monetary policy is too tight



The real problem is a nominal problem – also in 2016 | The Market Monetarist

Confused as to WTF is happening with Apple, the FBI and a killer's iPhone? Let's fix that • The Register

Confused as to WTF is happening with Apple, the FBI and a killer's iPhone? Let's fix that • The Register

FOMC Minutes and More - Tim Duy's Fed Watch

Shift:  Fed now willing to lag  the cycle.



FOMC Minutes and More - Tim Duy's Fed Watch

Newer Phones Aren’t Easy to Crack - WSJ

Newer Phones Aren’t Easy to Crack - WSJ

How the U.S. media would cover the Supreme Court nomination fight if it happened in another country.

Always an interesting way to think about news.



How the U.S. media would cover the Supreme Court nomination fight if it happened in another country.

Bosses Harness Big Data to Predict Which Workers Might Get Sick - WSJ

Bosses Harness Big Data to Predict Which Workers Might Get Sick - WSJ

An Open Letter from Past CEA Chairs to Senator Sanders and Professor Gerald Friedman | lettertosanders

An Open Letter from Past CEA Chairs to Senator Sanders and Professor Gerald Friedman | lettertosanders

Hillary Clinton: Will the Democratic Presidential Candidate Make History? - Vogue

Hillary Clinton: Will the Democratic Presidential Candidate Make History? - Vogue

Being Bilingual Changes the Architecture of Your Brain | WIRED

Being Bilingual Changes the Architecture of Your Brain | WIRED

ObamaCare: How Is It Doing?

ObamaCare: How Is It Doing?

After 25 Years of U.S. Role in Iraq, Scars Are Too Stubborn to Fade - The New York Times

After 25 Years of U.S. Role in Iraq, Scars Are Too Stubborn to Fade - The New York Times

The Fed’s interest payments to banks | Brookings Institution

The Fed’s interest payments to banks | Brookings Institution

What McConnell would say about blocking a Scalia replacement if he were brutally honest - Vox

What McConnell would say about blocking a Scalia replacement if he were brutally honest - Vox

Medical Residents, Misplaced Pride and Saner Hours - The New York Times

Medical Residents, Misplaced Pride and Saner Hours - The New York Times

The Secret to Moonshots? Killing Our Projects — Backchannel — Medium

The Secret to Moonshots? Killing Our Projects — Backchannel — Medium

No constitutional crisis will follow Scalia’s death — FT.com

No constitutional crisis will follow Scalia’s death — FT.com

Nissan's automated office chairs are equal parts awesome and scary

Nissan's automated office chairs are equal parts awesome and scary

The Problem With Elite-College Admissions - The Atlantic

The Problem With Elite-College Admissions - The Atlantic

The Great Man Theory Of Trump - Forbes

The Great Man Theory Of Trump - Forbes

Is Humanity Getting Better? - The New York Times

Is Humanity Getting Better? - The New York Times

Hillary Clinton’s big, complicated world — FT.com

Hillary Clinton’s big, complicated world — FT.com

How Scalia Changed the Supreme Court - The New Yorker

How Scalia Changed the Supreme Court - The New Yorker

Justice Antonin Scalia, Who Led a Conservative Renaissance on the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 79 - The New York Times

Justice Antonin Scalia, Who Led a Conservative Renaissance on the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 79 - The New York Times

Gearing Up for the Cloud, AT&T Tells Its Workers: Adapt, or Else - The New York Times

Gearing Up for the Cloud, AT&T Tells Its Workers: Adapt, or Else - The New York Times

Henry Kissinger: Good or Evil?

Henry Kissinger: Good or Evil?

Many suspects behind murderous markets — FT.com

Many suspects behind murderous markets — FT.com

New Bernie Sanders Ad - TOGETHER - YouTube

New Bernie Sanders Ad - TOGETHER - YouTube

Hitler finds out about negative interest rates on Vimeo

There is no valt in the world that can be managed for less than 25 basis points.



Hitler finds out about negative interest rates on Vimeo

Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions - The New York Times

Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions - The New York Times

This is a global stock market rout worth celebrating - Telegraph

This is a global stock market rout worth celebrating - Telegraph

Why one feminist woman is voting for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders

Why one feminist woman is voting for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders

The Real Jobless Rate Is 42 Percent? Donald Trump Has a Point, Sort Of - The New York Times

The Real Jobless Rate Is 42 Percent? Donald Trump Has a Point, Sort Of - The New York Times

Betting Rules, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Betting Rules, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Online Public Schools Are a Disaster, Admits Billionaire, Charter School-Promoter Walton Family Foundation | naked capitalism

Online Public Schools Are a Disaster, Admits Billionaire, Charter School-Promoter Walton Family Foundation | naked capitalism

The Woman Who Makes Prosthetic Pinkies for Ex-Yakuza Members | Motherboard

The Woman Who Makes Prosthetic Pinkies for Ex-Yakuza Members | Motherboard

This Is Why the Fed Is Paying Interest to Big Banks - Bloomberg Business

This Is Why the Fed Is Paying Interest to Big Banks - Bloomberg Business

A Group of American Teens Are Excelling at Advanced Math - The Atlantic

A Group of American Teens Are Excelling at Advanced Math - The Atlantic

How small is the world, really? — Medium

my number is 3.28



How small is the world, really? — Medium

Yellen Flags Risks to Economic Outlook That Could Delay Rate Increases - WSJ

Least surprising fact of the day. Yellen gets it, bank executives do not.



Yellen Flags Risks to Economic Outlook That Could Delay Rate Increases - WSJ

Bull Markets vs. Bear Markets

Bull Markets vs. Bear Markets

Morgan Stanley Trading Executive Provides Grim Picture for Wall Street - WSJ

Morgan Stanley Trading Executive Provides Grim Picture for Wall Street - WSJ

Markets Don't Work as Well as We Thought - Bloomberg View

Markets Don't Work as Well as We Thought - Bloomberg View

and the paper
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2156623

Negative Bond Yields in Japan Reflect Lack of Alternatives - WSJ

Negative Bond Yields in Japan Reflect Lack of Alternatives - WSJ

The employment to population ratio, revisited - Marginal REVOLUTION

Losing badly leads  to lots  of analysis, some  of it  good.



The employment to population ratio, revisited - Marginal REVOLUTION

Corrections and bear markets: What does Vanguard think?

Corrections and bear markets: What does Vanguard think?

When Addiction Has a White Face - The New York Times

When Addiction Has a White Face - The New York Times

How Japan’s ‘jutaku’ houses squeeze creativity into small spaces — FT.com

How Japan’s ‘jutaku’ houses squeeze creativity into small spaces — FT.com

Superbowl Analysis

xkcd: Sports

JASON BOURNE - First Look (HD) - YouTube

JASON BOURNE - First Look (HD) - YouTube

Review: It’s Coldplay, Starring Beyonc�, at Super Bowl Halftime Show - The New York Times

Review: It’s Coldplay, Starring Beyonc�, at Super Bowl Halftime Show - The New York Times

A small, self-governing island may hand over its roads to self-driving cars - The Washington Post

A small, self-governing island may hand over its roads to self-driving cars - The Washington Post

How The FDA Could Change The Way It Approves Drugs | FiveThirtyEight

How The FDA Could Change The Way It Approves Drugs | FiveThirtyEight

Japan's Growing Start-Up Scene | Foreign Affairs

Japan's Growing Start-Up Scene | Foreign Affairs

In Tokyo, Brand-Name Stores by Brand-Name Architects - The New York Times

In Tokyo, Brand-Name Stores by Brand-Name Architects - The New York Times

Everyone Hates Martin Shkreli. Everyone Is Missing the Point - The New Yorker

Everyone Hates Martin Shkreli. Everyone Is Missing the Point - The New Yorker

In Ecuador, the Frugal Traveler Tries Luxury - The New York Times

In Ecuador, the Frugal Traveler Tries Luxury - The New York Times

Drug Pricing and Un-American Trading - Bloomberg View

Drug Pricing and Un-American Trading - Bloomberg View:



High-frequency trading isn't curing cancer, nor is it leaving widows and orphans�destitute. It's an incremental efficiency improvement, with some opportunity for gamesmanship, that overall allocates some money out of the pockets of banks and hedge-fund managers and into the pockets of exchanges and HFT technologists.�

Finally, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton had a real argument over how politics works - Vox

You cannot be the enemy of the system that you intend to lead.



Finally, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton had a real argument over how politics works - Vox

Obama at the Mosque - WSJ

Obama at the Mosque - WSJ

Larry Fink Wants Companies to Talk More About the Future - Bloomberg View

Larry Fink Wants Companies to Talk More About the Future - Bloomberg View

Advice for a happy life

Advice for a happy life

Fake Online Locksmiths May Be Out to Pick Your Pocket, Too - The New York Times

Fake Online Locksmiths May Be Out to Pick Your Pocket, Too - The New York Times

Recent SEC Actions Charging Dark Pools - The Big Picture

Recent SEC Actions Charging Dark Pools - The Big Picture

Dark Pools - Bloomberg QuickTake

Dark Pools - Bloomberg QuickTake

Dark Pools Turned Out to Be Really Murky - Bloomberg View

Dark Pools Turned Out to Be Really Murky - Bloomberg View