Economy:
What Does Productivity Mean For Unemployment? – Atlantic
Reinhart, Rogoff… and Herndon: The student who caught out the profs – BBC
How much unemployment did Reinhart and Rogoff’s arithmetic mistake cause? – Guardian
China Stuck With Sub-8% Growth as G-20 Confronts Slowdown – Bloomberg
Markets:
Marijuana’s Per-Ounce Production Price Could Drop To 62 Cents If Drug Is Legalized: Report – Huffington Post
Feds Save Beer Drinkers from the Possibility of Slightly Increased Prices – Reason.com
Fed and Bank of Japan caused gold crash – Telegraph
The gold price crash is further evidence of market rigging – Telegraph
Politics:
A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent – New York Times
Is Raising the Federal Gasoline Tax the Best Way to Pay for Highways? – Wall Street Journal
Banks:
Why Canada Can Avoid Banking Crises and U.S. Can’t – Wall Street Journal
Goldman’s Big Guns Fire Dud in Defense of Megabanks – Bloomberg