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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/opinion/ivanka-trump-social-mobility.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/books/review-nervous-states-democracy-decline-of-reason-william-davies.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

This video and the one that follows provides the key to understanding the gains from trade https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/ap-macroeconomics/basic-economics-concepts-macro/scarcity-and-growth/v/opportunity-cost-and-comparative-advantage-macroeconomics-khan-academy

https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-tax-cut-has-failed-to-deliver-promised-investment-boom/

https://www.edelmanfinancialengines.com/seminars/mind-over-money

http://evonomics.com/debunking-deregulation-bank-credit-guidance-and-productive-investment/

https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/cahokia-ancient-native-american-city?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3

https://inequality.org/facts/income-inequality/ Inequality in the US

http://www.nba.com/free-agency-explained

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ocasio-cortezs-take-on-how-easy-it-is-to-be-a-pretty-bad-guy-in-politics-goes-viral-2019-02-10?mod=cx_picks&cx_navSource=cx_picks&cx_tag=mw&cx_artPos=7#cxrecs_s

https://video.newyorker.com/watch/the-black-athlete-in-america

http://evonomics.com/saving-cause-lending-cause-investment-no/

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/the-green-new-deal-and-changing-america/ So the GND involves a federal job guarantee, the right to unionize, action against free trade and monopolies, and universal housing and health care.  In Europe and other advanced capitalist economies, these aspirations are not so radical(although in the neoliberal world, they are increasingly so), but in Trump’s America, where corporate interests are paramount and  the main enemy is now ‘socialism’ , the GND programme is an anathema. But it is not just Trump and Wall Street who have thrown up their hands in horror at the GND proposals.  Some orthodox Keynesians have wrung their hands.  Noah Smith, the Keynesian economics blogger and Bloomberg columnist, let out a howl of anguish because he reckoned that GND, as promoted by AOC , ”definitely seems to include: 1) universal health care paid for by MMT; 2) trillions of dollars in infrastructure spending paid for by MMT; 3) eco...

Tax season is off to a slower start this year, with early filers seeing smaller average refunds. The average refund is down about 8% under the first full year of the overhauled tax code, according to  data released  by the IRS on Friday. Refunds averaged $1,865 compared to $2,035 for tax year 2017. https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/09/politics/tax-code-early-returns-data/index.html