• Economists View: links for 2010-03-13 Nearing Retirement and Unemployed or Underemployed - Calculated Risk For-Profit Schools Cashing In on Recession and Federal Aid - NYT Shipping out the best beer: Why export prices increase with distance - voxeu Does the Zero Lower …full story

• links for 2010-03-13
• "Managed Care: Get Used to It"
• What's the Optimal Level of Unemployment Benefits?
• Is Janet Yellen Really a Dove?
• links for 2010-03-12
• "The Sham Recovery"
• Paul Krugman: Health Reform Myths
• "Fed Vacancies and the Monetary Challenge"
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• The Legacy of the Economic Crisis
• Living Standards, Labor, and Productivity
• Talking About Our Budget Woes
• How Much Does the Senate Health Bill Cost?
• Google’s Public Data: Much Improved
• What Assets Could the United States Sell?
• Love Wins
• Are Chile’s Building Codes Getting Too Much Credit?
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• EconBrowser: March 12, 2010 Update: the 2010-19 Impact of PPACA on Budget Balance And a quantitative comparison to previous reconciliation measures. The CBO and the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have updated cost estimates for H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection …full story

• Dear Economist: Should I try to make school fees fairer?
• Undercover Economist: The auction site that’s pure temptation
• Three books you should read if you want to write
• Why do people abuse Q&A sessions at public lectures?
• And the world record for fertility goes to…
• What I’ve been reading
• Dear Economist: Help! How do I keep my students in class?
• Undercover Economist: The hidden histories that shape the way we live now
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• Update: the 2010-19 Impact of PPACA on Budget Balance
• Durable Goods and the Collapse of Global Trade
• Whither the Yuan?
• Modeling problems in credit markets
• Aspirin
• Speaking of Unfunded Liabilities: Medicare Part D
• A new index of financial conditions
• The Global Financial Crisis: Explaining Cross-Country Differences in the Output Impact
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• Freakonomics: Close …full story

• Time for the Kids? A Teaser and a Bleg
• Today in Aptonyms
• Should Fashion be Protected by Copyright Laws? A Guest Post
• Inside The Hurt Locker Suits
• Emergency Room Myths
• Quotes Uncovered: The Real McCoy and Acting Locally
• Last Words
• The Shade Premium
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• EPI applauds Local Jobs for America Act
• Unemployed wait longer and longer for jobs
• Job openings improve, but still more than 5 unemployed workers per available job
• Jobs Crisis Fact Sheet
• California’s Day of Action highlights need for fiscal relief to state and local governments
• A massive jobs gap
• Job market stuck on ‘‘pause’’
• Where has all the income gone? Look up.
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• Who will get shown the door first: Rangel or Paterson?
• The market tumbles and the bear dances (video)
• Greek econ 101: Work 12 months, get paid for 14 months
• Exclusive: The secret Grecian bailout plan
• Seasonal adjustments behind unexpected drop in jobless rate
• Retail sales jump as fear factor for the employed ebbs
• Did Obama bury health care reform in the State of the Union speech?
• Euphoric Democrats ignored springtime polls presaging Massachusetts upset
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• FT Undercover: Sports Home NCAAB YAHOO! SPORTS NFL MLB NBA NHL Golf NASCAR Tennis NCAA Football NCAA Basketball NCAA Women's Basketball World Soccer WNBA MLS All Sports ALSO ON YAHOO! Autos Finance Games Groups Health HotJobs Mail Maps Movies Music My Yahoo! …full story

• EPI.org: A Feeble Recovery: Updated
• In early May, EPI released a paper, A Feeble Recovery: The Fundamental Economic Weakness of the 2001-07 Expansion, that argued the United States had entered a new recession and compared the expansion that had just ended to previous ones. EPI found that the latest expansion ranked either at or near the bottom on a range of measures, especially those most relevant to working families like job creation and compensation growth. Last week, the National Bureau of Economic Research confirmed EPI's judgment on the recession's timing. In light of that official recognition, EPI is re-releasing its comparison paper, …full story