The Internet is controlled by 14 people who hold 7 secret physical keys. This sorta takes the mysterious fun out of it.
Tyrannical central planning looks dimmer every time you look at it.
Sumner points out the obvious culprit behind the high and growing rates of youth unemployment.
Dovetailing unfortunately with the prior link whereby union workers tend to gain from minimum wage laws at the expense of low-wage (largely youth) workers, is how NYC's mayor and teachers' unions are fighting proven successful methods of teaching disadvantaged youths.
Jonathan Mahler is fantasizing about the lawsuit that will kill the NCAA. Mark Cuban is promoting an idea that I believe would improve NCAA basketball, NBA basketball, and most importantly the wellbeing of the men who play basketball. Not to mention that it would likely be have negative side effects for the NCAA itself.
Two more on sports: Baseball umpires show bias (all the more reason machines should replace/complement their work); Grantland has a good overview on the work left to be done in bringing analytics to sports.
Landsburg has some good thoughts on the Arizona Senate's attempt to allow a certain type of discrimination.
Turnabout is fair play for the CFPB.
Here are two strong reasons to not believe the conventional wisdom that middle-class incomes have been stagnant for the past few decades. The first shows how amazingly more affordable housing is today, and that is before we take into account how much better it is today in quality. The second debunks the myth that wage growth and productivity growth have separated from one another.
Lastly, an interview with "the bogeyman".
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