Politics
- After the German election, one ‘what now?’ and two good snapshots of where German politics is at:
- Mariano Rajoy’s (non) strategy on Catalonia and The EU has tied its own hands. It cannot intervene in Catalonia
- A North Korean ship was seized off Egypt with a huge cache of weapons destined for a surprising buyer
- Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud
- The inside story of Labour’s election shock and The real saboteurs are the Tory fantasists backing hard Brexit
- A profile of the EU Competition Commissioner: Margrethe Vestager: ‘We are doing this because people are angry’
- Why Venezuela’s Opposition Has Stalled Out
- America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide
- Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular
- Rick Perry’s plan to subsidize coal and nuclear plants is bonkers
- Is Health Care a Right?
- How America Changed Its Approach to Political Islam
- The Muddled Travel Ban
- What people actually mean when they label an attack “terrorism”
- A German Love Story Goes Awry in the ‘Caliphate’
- Making war illegal changed the world. But it’s becoming too easy to break the law
- The Onion remains the go-to place for US mass shooting stories: Americans Hopeful This Will Be Last Mass Shooting Before They Stop On Their Own For No Reason
Economics & Finance
- Mortgage default during the Great Recession came from real estate investors, not subprime credit holders
- More of the ‘it’s a boomer world’ genre: Property is helping older Australians get richer — but young people are being locked out and Baby boomers are enjoying a second bite of the economic cherry and Generational living standards measured through household consumption (in the UK; pdf) and More Manna From Heaven for Britain’s Lucky Builders
- But there’s a solution and it involves molten rock: The Gift of Moving: Intergenerational Consequences of a Mobility Shock
- The Productivity Slowdown and the Declining Labor Share: A Neoclassical Exploration
- Demographic Transition and Low U.S. Interest Rates
- Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence
- How 3-D Printers Could Erase a Quarter of Global Trade by 2060
- Is There an Ideal Amount of Income Inequality? and Why we need the welfare state more than ever
- The best books on Economic Inequality Between Nations and Peoples
- Pricing political stability
- On migrants moving in: Tipping and the effects of segregation (‘We examine the effect of ethnic residential segregation on short- and long-term education and labour market outcomes of immigrants and natives’; large pdf)
- Agreeing a central bank communication strategy and Kashkari from the Fed on Medium (!): My Take on Inflation
- Assessing the impact of the ECB’s Corporate Sector Purchase Programme on SMEs
- Optimal Bank Regulation in the Presence of Credit and Run Risk (pdf)
- Mnuchin’s Incomplete Treasury Staff Could Be a Risk in Crisis
- Treasury Removes Paper at Odds With Mnuchin’s Take on Corporate-Tax Cut’s Winners and This Is What a Real Middle-Class Tax Cut Would Look Like
- The EU exodus: When doctors and nurses follow the money
- Puerto Rico Before Maria and No U.S. Bailout for Puerto Rican Debt, Trump’s Budget Chief Says
- China’s twenty-year dream of SOE reform still unfulfilled and The curious career paths of China’s public-sector bosses
- How UBS Became Home to Half the World’s Billionaires (and Geneva Police Confiscate Euro Bills Clogging Up Toilets)
- The Massive Hedge Fund Betting on AI
- Forgetful: Ex-SAC trader says he forgot facts, seeks to void insider trading plea
- The siren call of T+0, or real-time settlement
- No really, it’s the money of the future:
- Two bits of fun: Unlocking Braden’s Potential (pdf) and Japan’s Phillips Curve Looks Like Japan (pdf)
Science & Tech
- Nobel Prize in Physics:
- Popular explanation: Cosmic chirps (pdf)
- Advanced explanation: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory And The First Direct Observation Of Gravitational Waves (pdf)
- Youtube videos on LIGO: Rumours of detection, what we can learn from gravitational waves, confirmation of detection and improving sensitivity
- Are Gravitational Wave Detections Becoming Normal?
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry:
- Popular explanation: They captured life in atomic detail (pdf)
- Advanced explanation: The Development Of Cryo-Electron Microscopy (pdf)
- Nobel Prize in Medicine:
- But not everyone is impressed: The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science
- Why We’ll Have Evidence of Aliens—If They Exist—By 2035
- The Higgs Boson’s Twin Could Reveal Our Universe’s Dark Sector
- Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will
- A New History of the First Peoples in the Americas
- How a tax haven is leading the race to privatise space
- Do we live in a cyberpunk world? What we didn’t get
Misc
- Insecure overachiever? You are perfect for the job and Against Individual IQ Worries
- Antibiotics are a good thing: Causes of death over 100 years (for the UK)
- Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?
- The Untold Story of Kim Jong-nam’s Assassination
- How do I get my daughter interested in computers?
- When Working From Home Doesn’t Work
- How to Help an Employee Who Rubs People the Wrong Way
- Why no male synchronised swimmers?: Water’s Edge
- Death in Bollywood: who killed Jiah Khan?
- That’s quite the obit: Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner
- Justin Bieber Made a New Jersey Suburb Lose Its Mind This Summer
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