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Naked Capitalism

Matt Stoller: No, America Is Not an Oligarchy
CalPERS Told Obvious Big Lies in Its Response to Our Private Equity Investigation

Calculated Risk

Thursday: Unemployment Claims, Durable Goods, Kansas City Mfg Survey
Lawler on Meritage Homes: Net Home Orders Down despite Higher Community Count, “Less Pricing Power” Suggests Relatively Flat Home Prices for Rest of Year

Paul Krugman

Class-Ridden America
Inequality 1992

Eyes on Trade

As Obama Visits TPP Countries, New Obama Administration Report Targets Their Public Interest Policies as “Trade Barriers” to be Eliminated
Administration Desperate to Announce Breakthrough on TPP in Japan, But Congress not Buying Economic or Foreign Policy Sales Pitch and Won’t Give Obama Fast Track

Trade Reform

Elites Discover So-Called “Free Trade” Is Killing Economy, Middle Class
Obama trip stirs emotions over Asia trade pact

Atlanta Fed's Macroblog

Using State-Level Data to Estimate How Labor Market Slack Affects Wages

Zero Hedge

Groupthink Or Black Swan Rising? Not A Single 'Economist' Expects An Economic Downturn
#MyNYPD...

Economy in Crisis

Dark Money Infiltrating American Politics
The TPP Is Already Working Its Devastation

The Baseline Scenario

Where Do You Want to Be Born?

Manufacture This

What's funding the military buildup in China?
Quote Of The Day: "It's time the administration stiffened its spine" on trade issues

Beat The Press

Problems of Patent Financed Drug Research #43,783, Ignoring Non-Patentable Treatments
Judith Rodin is the Director Watch Director of the Day

FT Alphaville

Further reading
Further, further, further Piketty

Econbrowser

State Employment Trends: Does a Low Tax/Right-to-Work/Low Minimum Wage Regime Correlate to Growth – An Econometric Addendum
“Financial Adjustment in the Aftermath of the Global Crisis 2008-09: A New Global Order?”

EPI

New BLS Data Show College Enrollment Rates of Recent High School Grads Have Been Dropping Since 2009
A Key Lesson From Piketty: You Can’t Reverse Inequality or Provide Broad-Based Prosperity While Ignoring the Top 1 Percent

The Big Picture

Hoisington: On the Fed and the Wealth Effect
Behavioral Investing/Economics Blogs?

Angry Bear

Everything you need to know about Tax Freedom Day®
Two ways to Fish with the Fisher Effect

Steve Keen's Debtwatch

More Effective Remedies for Inequality than Piketty’s
A China Bubble?

CBO

H.R. 4366, Strengthening Education through Research Act
H.R. 3635, Safe and Secure Federal Websites Act of 2014

GAO

GAO-14-530R, Warfighter Support: DOD Policy and Implementation Plan for Reconstitution of Forces, April 23, 2014
GAO-14-409, Telecommunications: Projects and Policies Related to Deploying Broadband in Unserved and Underserved Areas, April 23, 2014

Wall Street On Parade

Did the SEC Admit That It Knows the Stock Market is Rigged?
Jamie Dimon: JPMorgan Employs 30,000 Programmers

Next New Deal

Daily Digest - April 23: Repealing Health Care Reform Gets Harder Every Day
Daily Digest - April 22: Tax Reform Can Close the Gulf Between CEOs and Workers

Instapopulist

An American in Ukraine Comments on the Ukraine Crisis
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