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Kevin Drum

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Name: Kevin Drum

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Paul Krugman

Links for 05-18-2013

Too Much Talk About Liquidity - Paul Krugman The Real Scandal and Systemic Abuse of Power - Robert Reich What's the Variance of a Sample Variance? - Dave Giles What Rational Really Means - Scientific American A Defense of the Financial Sector - Tim ... [Published Economist's View - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Paul Krugman, Tim Taylor, Robert Reich, Kevin Drum

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Open thread for night owls: Stephen Lerner on breaking Wall Street's grip

Greg Kauffman has, for a long time, been focused on poverty issues, a subject that rarely arouses much concern in the stenographic media but matters a great deal to tens of millions of Americans directly affected by it. What follows is the introduction ... [Published Daily Kos - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Wall Street, Crisis, Benghazi, Workers, Kevin Drum

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 2 reports

Are There Jobs Americans Won’t Do?

Kevin Drum thinks so . He posts the above chart, which compares the percentage of American and Mexican agricultural workers in North Carolina who stayed on the job over a 12-month period:Within two months, 80 percent of the native workers had quit. By ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Kevin Drum, Workers, Laborer

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Barack Obama

3 Followups on 3 'Scandals'

Searching for leakers inside an organization is one thing; dragging in reporters -- or doctors, or clergy -- is another, and usually a mistake.MoreAfter this item late last night.1) Benghazi remains a tragedy but not a "scandal," as a number of clearer-thinking ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Barack Obama, Kevin Drum, CIA Central Intelligence Agency, Classified Information, National Security

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Cato Institute

Midday open thread

Today's comic by Mark Fiore is Freedom of Snuggly : What's coming up on Sunday Kos ...Big-thinking Cato Institute: 400ppm haz got what plants crave, by HunterThe next biggest scandal ever, until the next one, by HunterRepublican outreach report card: ... [Published Daily Kos - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Mark Fiore, Mineral, Kevin Drum, Protective Services, Cato Institute

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 19 hours ago - 3 reports

U.S. Murder Rate On Track To Be Lowest In More Than 100 Years

Kevin Drum links to an interesting study which suggests that, if current trends hold up, 2013 will see the United States experience it’s lowest murder rate in 100 years [Study available in PDF ]. Drum, who has been blogging a lot lately about ... [Published Outside The Beltway | OTB - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Kevin Drum, Homicide, Violent Crime, Crime

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 2 reports

Republican Party (US)

ABC News & The Whitewater Tactics At The Center Of The Scandal Machine

Blog ››› 16 minutes ago ››› JEREMY HOLDENRepublicans leaders are reportedly concerned that the scandal machine that has been kicked into high gear in recent days will lead to similar backlash the party faced over its endless and costly investigations ... [Published Media Matters for America - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Republican Party (US), David Bossie, White House, Benghazi

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Don’t you know the crime rate’s going up up up up up?

The homicide rate seems set to dip below what it was in the most recent set of good old days when we didn’t need no welfare state, though it has a ways to go before it will match the previous set of good old days when everybody lived on farms. ... [Published Balloon Juice - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Homicide, Kevin Drum, Agriculture

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

Competitive Pricing in Oregon is a Test Case for...

Bad news about the implementation of Obamacare seems to pop up relentlessly. So here's some good news to balance it out. Once the exchanges get up and running, insurance companies for the first time will be offering similar products with very public prices, ... [Published Mother Jones - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Oregon, Gary Walker, Kevin Drum

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Republicans Debate Their Ransom Demand For Next...

Lori Montgomery reports today that House Republicans no longer plan to block a debt-limit increase that would force the government into default. Hooray! They do plan to ask for a pound of flesh in return, though. But what? They met yesterday to At the ... [Published Mother Jones - May 17 2013]

Entities: Republican Party (US), debt-limit, Lori Montgomery, Kevin Drum

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Guest Workers and Farm Labor: A Followup

Yesterday I wrote a post about a study showing that even when unemployment was high, native-born Americans weren't willing to take jobs picking crops. "Most Americans just aren't willing to do backbreaking agricultural labor for a bit above minimum wage," ... [Published Mother Jones - May 16 2013]

Entities: Labor, Workers, Agriculture

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Your Brain = Lake Michigan

We talked to Kevin Drum for today's Marketplace Tech. He's got a long piece out for Mother Jones on a topic we're familiar with: robots replacing humans in the workforce.The good news is Drum seems optimistic about this robot utopian future, where highly ... [Published Marketplace - May 16 2013]

Entities: Kevin Drum, Caveat, Robotics

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Links for 05-18-2013 [Published Economist's View - 5 hours ago]
Open thread for night owls: Stephen Lerner on b... [Published Daily Kos - 8 hours ago]
The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - 9 hours ago]
Are There Jobs Americans Won’t Do? [Published Atlantic Monthly - 14 hours ago]
Are There Jobs Americans Won’t Do? [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - 14 hours ago]
3 Followups on 3 'Scandals' [Published Atlantic Monthly - 14 hours ago]
Midday open thread [Published Daily Kos - 17 hours ago]
U.S. Murder Rate On Track To Be Lowest In More ... [Published Outside The Beltway \| OTB - 19 hours ago]
ABC News & The Whitewater Tactics At The Center... [Published Media Matters for America - 20 hours ago]
Don’t you know the crime rate’s going up up up ... [Published Balloon Juice - 20 hours ago]
Doesn't Anybody Here Know How to Run a Conspiracy? [Published TAPPED - 20 hours ago]
We're on Track for the Lowest Murder Rate in 10... [Published Slate Magazine - 20 hours ago]
Jeremy Holden: ABC News & The Whitewater Tactic... [Published Media Matters for America - County Fair - 20 hours ago]
Competitive Pricing in Oregon is a Test Case fo... [Published Mother Jones - 21 hours ago]
The Real Scandal Behind the Benghazi Emails and... [Published US News & World Report - 21 hours ago]
CBS News: Republicans Changed Benghazi Emails [Published The Moderate Voice - 23 hours ago]
How to Prevent the IRS From Abusing Its Power A... [Published Atlantic Monthly - May 17 2013]
U.S. Murder Rate on Track to Be Lowest In a... [Published Mother Jones - May 17 2013]
Republicans Debate Their Ransom Demand For Next... [Published Mother Jones - May 17 2013]
Seasonal Guest Workers Don't Create Low Pay, Lo... [Published Slate Magazine - May 16 2013]
Guest Workers and Farm Labor: A Followup [Published Mother Jones - May 16 2013]
Your Brain = Lake Michigan [Published Marketplace - May 16 2013]
When Will AI Be Created? [Published The Singularity Institute Blog - May 16 2013]
When the Village turns on a President [Published Washington Post - May 15 2013]
No, the Federal Government is Not Like a Shark [Published Mother Jones - May 15 2013]
Is Our Robot Paradise Already Here? [Published Mother Jones - May 15 2013]
Wonkbook: All the latest on all the scandals [Published Ezra Klein - May 15 2013]
Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 15 2013]
Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren [Published Brad DeLong - May 15 2013]
More Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren… [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 15 2013]

Blogs

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Links for 05-18-2013 [Published Economist's View - 5 hours ago] Too Much Talk About Liquidity - Paul Krugman The Real Scandal and Systemic Abuse of Power - Robert Reich What's the Variance of a Sample Variance? - Dave Giles What Rational Really Means - Scientific American A Defense of the Financial Sector - Tim ...
Open thread for night owls: Stephen Lerner on b... [Published Daily Kos - 8 hours ago] Greg Kauffman has, for a long time, been focused on poverty issues, a subject that rarely arouses much concern in the stenographic media but matters a great deal to tens of millions of Americans directly affected by it. What follows is the introduction ...
The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - 9 hours ago] Friday on the Dish, Andrew slammed Peggy Noonan’s latest column, parsed public opinion on the IRS and Benghazi, and recalled Rumsfeld’s shut-down argument style. He encouraged consenting adults to let their freak flags fly and dove deep on ...
Are There Jobs Americans Won’t Do? [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - 14 hours ago] Kevin Drum thinks so . He posts the above chart, which compares the percentage of American and Mexican agricultural workers in North Carolina who stayed on the job over a 12-month period: Within two months, 80 percent of the native workers had ...
Midday open thread [Published Daily Kos - 17 hours ago] Today's comic by Mark Fiore is Freedom of Snuggly : What's coming up on Sunday Kos ...Big-thinking Cato Institute: 400ppm haz got what plants crave, by HunterThe next biggest scandal ever, until the next one, by HunterRepublican outreach report card: ...

Audio/Video

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Lead Poisoning Linked to Violent Crime [Published The Young Turks - YouTube - Jan 08 2013]