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Economics Daily Digest: Why the internet moves at the speed of indifference

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. Telecom's Big Players Hold Back the Future (NYT) David Carr profiles Roosevelt Institute Fellow Susan Crawford and explores her crusade against the telecom monopolies that offer high fees instead of high speeds. Show More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: It's Gatsby's world, they're just working in it

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. Gatsby and the McJobs Rebellion (KC Star) Roosevelt Institute Fellow Dorian Warren notes that the new adaptation of The Great Gatsby is timed nicely with fast food and retail workers' push for fairer wages. Show More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: Adding morals to math

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. Creating an Economics for the 21st Century (Yahoo! Finance) Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow Rob Johnson argues that the problemShow More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: The Slim communications barrier

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. Mexico's Lucky to Have Just One Man Blocking Internet Equality. We've Got a Bunch (Wired) Roosevelt Institute Fellow Susan Crawford writes that Carlos Slim uses his Mexican telecom monopoly to extract billions from customers. Show More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: Education for all -- and some money, too

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream (NYT) Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow and Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz argues...Show More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: A political state of emergency

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. Overthinking Obama (Washington Monthly) Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow Mark Schmitt argues that while many authors try to construct...Show More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: The more FinReg, the merrier

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. Dodd-Frank is finally being implemented. Will that be enough? (WaPo) Roosevelt Institute Fellow Mike Konczal argues that Brown-Vitter's capital requirements could be a smart addition to Dodd-Frank even if the latter works well. Show More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: Learning by doing badly

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. The Lessons of the North Atlantic Crisis for Economic Theory and Policy (IMFdirect) Roosevelt Institute Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz...Show More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: The Fed keeps rolling that rock uphill

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. The great economic experiment of 2013: Ben Bernanke vs. austerity (WaPo) Roosevelt Institute Fellow Mike Konczal writes that U.S.Show More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: Economists are only as good as their data

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. Reinhart/Rogoff-gate isn't the first time austerians have used bad data (WaPo) Roosevelt Institute Fellow Mike Konczal notes an odd...Show More Summary

Cornell NYC Tech program gets $133M, new name

The Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute—a key academic component of Cornell NYC Tech, the applied sciences graduate school that Cornell is set to build on Roosevelt Island—has just gotten a new name. It is now the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute. Show More Summary

Robert Johnson on the oligarchs: “They’re all standing on the deck of the Titanic looking in each other’s eyes”

Clip from Robert Johnson, dormer Senate Economist, Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and a Senior Fellow and Director of the Global Finance Project at the Roosevelt Institute, and transcribed by The Transcriber, who added commentary. Show More Summary

Konczal: Dodd-Frank Reforms Get Roughed Up in Court

Mike Konczal, fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and contributor to Bloomberg View, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia about how the implementation of the financial reform laws in Dodd-Frank have been hampered by a series of adverse court decisions. Show More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: Liberal vs. liberal vs. Social Security

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. India's Patently Wise Decision (Project Syndicate) Roosevelt Institute Chief Economist Joe Stiglitz and Arjun Jayadev praise the Indian...Show More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: A new bank reform recipe calls for less Basel

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. Sherrod Brown and David Vitter have a new bipartisan bill to end Too Big to Fail. Here's what it does. (WaPo) Roosevelt InstituteShow More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: Draining the secretarial pool

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. How much money do you make? (WaPo) Roosevelt Institute Fellow Mike Konczal examines a question that complicates income inequality—partly...Show More Summary

Richard Kirsch: How Obamacare Stiffs The Working Poor

Richard Kirsch from the Roosevelt Institute untangles the enormous mess that is the Affordable Care Act, which will not only not remediate the problems of some of the poor who can't afford health care, it will cost them more money --...Show More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: When the rents come due

2 months agoUS Politics / Liberal : Daily Kos

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. Note: The 2013 edition of the Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network's 10 Ideas series is out today! Click here to read the best student...Show More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: The economy rots from the head down

2 months agoUS Politics / Liberal : Daily Kos

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. The Consequences of a Leaderless Economy (Yahoo! Finance) Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow Rob Johnson argues that America's failure...Show More Summary

Economics Daily Digest: How millennials make it work

2 months agoUS Politics / Liberal : Daily Kos

By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. How to Create a Workplace That Fits Millennial America (Chief Learning Officer) Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network National Director...Show More Summary

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