My easy like Sunday morning reads:
• Stocks Rise 3%, Leaving S&P 500 Flat on Year (Barron’s)
• How Esurance Lost Its Mascot to the Internet (Priceonomics)
• One Way to Unrig Stock Trading (NYT)
• The Terminal Patient: Is Bloomberg’s Return Good or Bad for Bloomberg? (Spiegel)
• As Oil Money Melts, Alaska Mulls First Income Tax in 35 Years (NYT)
• Congress’s Surprisingly Productive Year (The Atlantic)
• Minimum Wage Going Up In 14 States At Start Of 2016 (Huffington Post)
• NRA’s Wayne Lapierre Gets Paid $845k To Defend Guns (Forbes) see also Big Guns Inside the National Rifle Association Leadership (Daily Beast)
• ‘I’ve Known Donald for Years’: 3 Hours Undercover at a Young Republicans Holiday Party (Hilarious!) (Jezebel)
• ‘Star Wars’ Legacy II: An Architect Of Hollywood’s Greatest Deal Recalls How George Lucas Won Sequel Rights (Deadline)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with The Simpson’s Harry Shearer.
Annualized % Change in Private Fixed Investment by Category
Source: Bespoke Investment Group
how did we come to the conclusion about climate change?
http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-did-world-scientific-community-come.html
raising rates
http://econbrowser.com/archives/2015/12/managing-the-feds-balance-sheet
David Rees always has the best year-end lists. He’s off to a good start this year.
http://www.mnftiu.cc/