Gordon's Notes

I'm on the way to writing about what I think should be Biden's #2 priority (#1 is undoing Trump's executive orders). Three previ...

The NYT has a readable summary of Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman’s US income research . Much of it is familiar, but I was ...

Set aside the neo-Klan-Nazi minority. Set aside the truly despicable  - Coulter, Hannity, Falwell and the like. Forget the hell-spawn who th...

We know the shape of the socioeconomic future for the bottom 40%  in the post globalization post AI   mass disability world . But how do ...

This is what I think socioeconomic support will look like in 2040 based on cognitive [2] quintiles. The bottom quintile (0-20%, non-voters)...

I’m a liberal of Hume an descent, and I’m a fan of Donald Trump. No, not because Trump is humiliating the GOP, though he is. Of course I en...

Over the past few decades developed world growth in wealth and income has been captured by a small segment of the population. Globalization...

[ Preface 9/6/13 : I am enjoying the app.net discussion thread on this  with @duerig and @clarkgoble. When reading this, try substituting TR...

For much of human history slavery , rape, abuse of children and women, heavy drinking, murder, cruelty, and animal torture were commonplace ...

Krugman is famously dismissive about claims of structural aspects to underemployment (though years ago he wasn't as sure). DeLong, I thi...

Life in the empire of the Kims: How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp | Books | The Guardian ... The South Korean governmen...

Reading 9th grade world history  as an adult I read over the names of the wicked and the great. I round years to centuries, and nations to r...

In my early years white male heterosexual superiority was pretty much hardwired into my culture. I grew up in Quebec, so in my earliest pre-...

This surprised me: Notes on income inequality - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post ... Martin Gilens, a political scientist at Princeton Un...

My paper magazine has another article on the Argentinification of America -  Can the Middle Class Be Saved? - The Atlantic . I'll skim ...

Three weeks ago a typically anonymous article in The Economist reviewed two of the less obvious obstacles to reducing inequality and poverty...

It occurred to me that a custom Google news section would help me track the worldwide retail organ business. The results were more impress...

The Dow is doing very well, though some expect that to change shortly. For most Americans, however, the Great Recession grinds on. The perce...

There are two racers. Jane is legless. Since the age of two she has excelled. Jill is apathetic. She has trouble getting started. She give...

The weak are inescapable. Live long enough? Probably weak. Child? Weak. Wrong genes? Not so strong. Blacksmith post-horses? Tribe out of po...