Must Read

• Jeremiah Goulka, Pipeline or Pipe Bomb?  [CG:  Subject is Keystone XL.]

Should Read

• Matt Taibbi, Jamie Dimon’s Raise Proves U.S. Regulatory Strategy is a Joke
• Barbara Ehrenreich, It Is Expensive to Be Poor
• Tim Duy, Markets Tumble. How Will the Fed React?
• Boston.com, [MA] State Senate President Therese Murray will not seek re-election

Economics

• Paul Krugman, Macroeconomic Populism Returns
• NY Times, Battles Loom in Many States Over What to Do With Budget Surpluses
• Dean Baker, Fiscal Surpluses in States Likely Driven by Capital Gains Income [Baker’s punchline:  “Unless stock and/or house prices continue to rise at an extraordinary pace, the statistical discrepancy will fall back toward zero and the extra tax revenue states are now seeing will disappear.”]
• NY Times, A City Wired for Growth  [The city is Chattanooga, TN.  Bottom line: Providing infrastructure is good for economic growth.]

Big Chicken on His Way to the Fryer

• NY Times, Documents in Bridge Scandal Set to Start Pouring In
• Scott Raab, Chris Christie Allies – The Company Chris Christie Kept [Raab:  “For Christie to survive his second term as Governor, many people — all with careers, families, and dreams of their own — would have to fall on their own swords. Such people may, in theory, exist. None of ’em worked for Chris Christie.”]

Obamacare

• NY Times, Obamacare Computers Not Yet Equipped to Fix Errors: Report
• NY Times, Health Care Law May Result in 2 Million Fewer Full-Time Workers
• NY Times Editorial Board, Freeing Workers From the Insurance Trap
• Dean Baker, CBO Says Obamacare Will Raise Wages
• Paul Krugman, CBO: ACA OK
• Austin Frakt, Cut out the noise and read the CBO report

Environment

• Pierce Nahigyan, How America Helped Build Africa’s E-Wasteland
• Charlie Pierce, More Bad News On West Virginia Water – The Flood Of Bad News Continued In West Virginia

Math and Statistics

• Andrew Gelman, Bootstrap averaging: Examples where it works and where it doesn’t work

Miscellany

• Livermore’s Centennial Light Live Cam [This lightbulb has been on for 112 years!]
• Andrew Cockburn, Warthogs and All [Praise for the A-10.]
• Boston.com, Plenty of early arrivals for Red Sox
• Boston.com, Red Sox Truck Day 2014