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Calculated Risk: Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decline to 323,000 :

Economist's View: Just a Reminder about the Condition of the Labor Market... :

Healthcare plan enrollment surges in some states after rocky rollout http://t.co/qNFH4zJLpO — Daniel Ryan (@danielericryan) November 19, 2013 from Twitter https://twitter.com/danielericryan November 19, 2013 at 01:26PM via IFTTT

"Ideas Are Easy; Execution Is Hard" http://t.co/ImDh8vtrwm — Daniel Ryan (@danielericryan) November 16, 2013 from Twitter https://twitter.com/danielericryan November 16, 2013 at 11:55AM via IFTTT

Multinational firms and business cycles | vox

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This afternoon, NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons sent a letter to President Obama, Speaker Boehner and Leaders Pelosi, Reid and McConnell urging them to “rise above partisan differences and put the nation’s best interests first by addressing the debt limit,” as soon as possible. Hopefully the continued pressure will help this avoidable  crisis end.

Calculated Risk: CBO Report on Fiscal 2013 Deficit :

The Bonus Employees Really Want, Even If They Don't Know It Yet - Lalin Anik and Jordi Quoidbach - Harvard Business Review : This is interesting but I am not sure if your are addressing the reduced compensation with a higher base plus the more altruistic bonus.

An Update on Polarization through the 113th Congress (Part II) | voteview blog :

‘It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With The New Politics of Extremism’ by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein - The Washington Post :

Obamacare or the Debt Ceiling | RedState :

If we hit the debt ceiling, can Obama choose which bills to pay? :

How to think, write, edit and respond in the very short news cycle? As much as some of us think the news cycle is short, it may be no different than it was in the past. We push a lot more information up and down but is this analysis. Does it have value? There has been thousands of articles, news stories, tv shows, spoofs, blogs, etc. on the partial government shutdown. Do we know anymore than we did a week ago? Have we lost patience? Did we have patience? Is there evindence of either? How would we go about to answer this questions?  

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As we approach the upcoming government it's time to reflect on how we got here and what does it mean to be here. The request to have the affordable care act defunded by the Republican house is absolutely a non starter and has zero chance of passing either the senate or being signed by the President. This leads to the question what is the purpose of this vote and the forty plus other votes would to the ACA.  

Angry Bear » Does Steady GDP Growth “Prove” that Market Monetarists Are Right About Ineffective Fiscal Policy and Foolish Keynesianism? : A thoughtful rebuke of the simple monetarists.

India records slowest growth in a decade - FT.com : Slow growth - India (China, as well) is not the panacea for new growth that some may hope it to be.

 We have too many hallucinations and not enough execution.- Incremental long term change is what is needed.  Lets get to work.

Bill Gates on the Importance of Measurement - WSJ.com :

Here’s who gets the biggest tax breaks, in one chart (okay, six) : This is great information.

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If you were here illegally, would you go through this? All the paths to US citizenship in the Senate’s immigration bill, visualized - Quartz :

James Surowiecki: The “War on Savers” Myth : The New Yorker : This is a a great article - it portrays the current economic reality in laymen terms.

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When Interest Rates Rise by Martin Feldstein - Project Syndicate :

The battle over the 2014 budget - The Washington Post :

LeBron James Stats, Bio and Game Logs | NBA.com :

How LeBron James transformed his game to become a highly efficient scoring machine - Grantland :