Reading time: < 1 minute

1. U Chicago econ prof Raghuram Rajan on the future of capitalism

2. Mankiw on the growth in the monetary base and its relation to inflation fears

3. VCs are being pushed to later stage investing

4. Ways of reading

5. Jonathan Gruber on the “Cadillac Tax“

Reading time: < 1 minute

1. Programmer productivity and pay discrepancies

2. Higher gasoline and carbon taxes may be on the horizon (and why that’s a good thing)

Reading time: < 1 minute

1. A decade of creative destruction (pdf)

2. At least we don’t live in the dark ages

3. $5 billion (with a B) gift cards aren’t redeemed each year

4. Christmas cost 1.8% more this year

5. Why you shouldn’t buy Christmas presents (no wonder why they call it the dismal science)

6. The case against the millionaire surtax

Reading time: < 1 minute

1. David Brooks on the protocol economy

2. How a new communications technology disrupted America’s newspapers – in 1845

3. Tabarrok’s “no give, no take” policy to be implemented in Israel

4. It’s really who you know and where they are

5. EconTalk: James Hamilton on debt, default and oil

6. When socially responsible investing isn’t: the 529 plan debacle