Tuesday, December 3, 2013

In the Water, In the Air: Tuesday, December 03, 2013.


DEFICITS AND DEBT
The Next GOP Crackup?: Republican spenders want to break the annual budget caps (The Wall Street Journal, 12/03).
ECONOMIC REPORTS
America's Microbank Problem (Matthew Yglesias, Slate, 12/02).
No, America Doesn’t Have Too Many Banks (Sean Davis, The Federalist, 12/03).
ECONOMICS 101
Nationality Swapping: The Latest Craze Of The World’s Ultra Rich (Tara Loader Wilkinson, Wealth-X, 11/20).
Robert Bartley's 'The Seven Fat Years' - One of the Greatest Economics Books Ever Written (John Tamny, RealClearMarkets, 12/03).
REVENUE-SIDE REFORM
Please, there is a better way to help workers than the minimum wage, and everybody knows it (James Pethokoukis, AEIdeas, 12/03).
Primer: Minimum Wage and Combating Poverty (Ben Gitis, American Action Forum, 12/03).
SPENDING-SIDE REFORM
Please, there is a better way to help workers than the minimum wage, and everybody knows it (James Pethokoukis, AEIdeas, 12/03).
GLOBAL ECONOMY
The Coming Global Wealth Tax: Indebted governments may soon consider a big one-time levy on capital assets (Romain Hatchuel, The Wall Street Journal, 12/03).
America's greatest export is its debt (Frances Coppola, The Week, 12/03).
GLOBAL ECONOMY -- JAPAN
Japan in a Post-Growth Age (Norihiro Kato, The New York Times, 12/02).
PUBLIC PENSIONS
Detroit Pensions: Unsafe at Any Speed? (Megan McArdle, Bloomberg, 12/02).
MOBILITY AND EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Training for Success: A Policy to Expand Apprenticeships in the United States (Ben Olinsky, Center For American Progress, 12/02).
Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People (Jared Bernstein and Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research).
FACTION -- GRIDLOCK
The Congress that would rather fight than pass bills (Editorial Board, The Washington Post, 12/02).

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