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Open thread for night owls: Lower pay for new graduates follows them for life
The Wall Street Journal puts up a paywall for most articles, so unless you subscribe or engage the site with go-around software, you won't be able to read the whole piece I am going to excerpt below. And since I can't get permission for a longer excerpt as I usually do, this will be short. And, like so much information about the labor market these days: frustrating, troubling, even infuriating.
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Open thread for night owls: What good is Wall Street?
At The New Yorker, John Cassidy asks What Good is Wall Street?. An excerpt: In the upper reaches of Wall Street, talk of another financial crisis is dismissed as alarmism. Last fall, John Mack, to his credit, was one of the first Wa... Read Post
Open Thread for Night Owls: Climate change and the Foxification of the Wall Street Journal
Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal published an Op-Ed from 16 scientists and engineers titled No Need to Panic About Global Warming. It was excremental, going so far as to compare climate scientists with discredited Lysenkoism. On... Read Post
Open thread for night owls: The revisionist history of the Wall Street Journal
This wreck of a column has to be the most stunningly incompetent thing ever written in the Wall Street Journal. I realize that is a very high bar, and I realize that as someone with a bit of tech savvy I am perhaps more aware of the... Read Post