Links of the Day

1. Do high-income Americans pay enough taxes to be "fair?"

2. Investigation problems with the Germanwings plane crash.

3. A visualization of the London underground.

Links of the Day

1. Books to help your business and your life. I'm planning on working my way through some of these in the near future.

2. The perceived effects of the Internet on emerging and developing nations. I'd say we overestimate the negative impact on morality and instead of the Internet having a causal effect, it simply provides a very accessible means for people to channel those impulses. This report is pretty detailed and there's a lot of insight here.

3. A grad student's blog post critique of Piketty lands him a presentation at Brookings.

4. Toxicity of subreddits, analyzed.

Links of the Day

1. College and annual returns on degrees. From The Economist.

2. A how-to guide for those who do not want to retire.

3. American views on privacy concerns, post-Snowden. From Pew.

4. Arms dealing in Germany?

5. Data analytics keeps on growing.

Links of the Day

1. A Goldman Sachs infographic on millenials.

2. Costco makes deal with Citigroup, Visa to be credit card partners.

3. How much of your income should you save? None of these "how to enjoy retirement" prescriptions are perfect, but there are still some thoughtful points to consider in this article.

4. Live Apple watch event updates.

5. Americans' views on government policy since the Great Recession.

6. Self-driving cars will make us want fewer cars.

Links of the Day

1. Greg Mankiw on how we can rate members of Congress.

2. An unsettling truth about America's prisons.

3. Do cryptocurrencies have a future? I'm cautiously optimistic.

4. Republican millennials support marijuana legalization.

Links of the Day

1. DC legalizes pot.

2. 24 hours of Twitter.

3. Is it harder to help the middle class than the lower class?

4. Psychology journal bans significance testing. Comments on Marginal Revolution here.

5. 535,000,000+ hours to be saved by driver-less cars?

Links of the Day

1. Goodbye, Parks and Recreation.

2. Mayweather v. Pacquiao ticket pricing.

3. Where NYC's most busy speeding cameras are located.

4. Life in China's Ministry of Truth.

5. House Republicans and DC marijuana legalization.

Links of the Day

1. The upside of waiting in line.

2. Walmart raises wage for employees to $10/hr.

3. New Jersey man faces arrest for transporting an antique pistol.

4. Regulation is good for Goldman.

5. Germany accuses Greece of Trojan Horse tactics in bailout negotiations.

Links of the Day

1. How many calories are in your Chipotle?

2. Is it the burrito or the dorito that is worse for your health?

3. Can Bitcoin save NYC millions?

4. Notre Dame's curriculum review and the Catholic identity.

Links of the Day

1. Could driverless cars own themselves?

2. Yanis Varoufakis: "No time for games."

3. IEA white paper - "Why rail fares should be liberalised."

4. Colorado's marijuana money going up in smoke.

Arthur Chu - Your Princess is in Another Castle

Arthur Chu came to speak at Notre Dame last night on "nerd culture" and what he calls the "transactional view on sex." Mr. Chu was very well-spoken and communicated with gravitas when speaking about the 2014 Isla Vista killings and other similar atrocities.

Chu argues that gender issues have always been around and pointed to the motif of the protagonist who "wins" a woman - as a prize - through her father by competing particular challenges without her having any say in the matter. He also contends that tropes - following in the footsteps of "winning my daughter's hand in marriage" are more prevalent in the world today than we'd like to acknowledge. Arthur's article on the Daily Beast, after which his presentation was named, can be found here.

I blogged about Chu's implementation of game theory last year in his successful stint on Jeopardy.

Links of the Day

1. The War on Terror has cost nearly $1.7 trillion.

2. Life inside a secret Chinese Bitcoin mining facility.

3. Mapping the microbes of the NYC subway.

4. Investigative journalists and digital security.

Links of the Day

1. Does too much strenuous running shorten your life? One study says yes, Justin Wolfers responds no.

2. A $22 billion shortfall for student loans in the 2016 proposed budget.

3. Why won't Japanese workers go on vacation?

4. Concerns from the Silk Road trial.

5. US employment is increasing, at least nominally.

Links of the Day

1. The Uberpreneur: How An Uber Driver Makes $252,000 A Year.

2. Are we on the verge of a libertarian political breakout?

3. Maps of every road in the United States.

4. Paul Krugman on the ECB's refusal to accept Greek bonds as collateral.

5. Trust in government vs. trust in business. Interesting results from India, Spain, and China.

6. Bill Gates' plan to help the developing world profit from its sewage.

Links of the Day

1. Game theory on "that call" by the Seahawks.

2. A good analysis of Mesut Özil's role (of Arsenal FC) from the perspective of Bastiat.

3. Everything you could want to know about Chipotle's history.

4. How Uber, Foursquare, and other apps might look on the Apple Watch. Hopefully we'll see how accurate these are come April.

5. S&P pays $1.4 billion settlement over government allegations that it doctored credit ratings on mortgage securities before the crisis.

6. Facebook, Spotify, and Ryanair to consider accepting bitcoin payments.

Links of the Day

1. The Super Bowl still has some catching up to do in terms of viewership. Credit to Reddit user WhatWeOnlyFantasize for creating this chart.

2. Do wine clubs really deliver on their promises?

3. The Internet is putting federalism to the test.

4. When robots beam down from the clouds.

5. Useful budgeting advice from a successful 31-year-old.

Links of the Day

1. Why you should tell your kids what you make. I agree with the author to some extent; Tyler Cowen offers good insight on this article, here.

2. Families are now paying more for public university tuition than state governments. This article cites a study from the GAO, here.

3. The most and least stressful avenues for bikers in Manhattan.

4. Super Bowl pessimism - let's just not forget these subsidies are sunk costs for consumers.

5. Bloomberg's analysis of rising Super Bowl commercial costs.

6. FiveThirtyEight on Super Bowl XLIX.

Everybody takes a hiatus...

It's been nearly half a year since the last post on the CMPB. After a busy yet rewarding summer, a college senior's schedule doesn't ease up much either (at least until the spring). With my near future/post-graduate plans determined, I figured it would be as good of a time as any to get back into thinking more rigorously about different facets of human interaction through an economic lens. If nothing else, this blog can act a means for collecting articles, published papers, or online posts of topical interest that will hopefully generate enthusiasm from readers as well.

Instead of getting into some detailed analysis for my first post back, here are a few things I've come across recently that grabbed my attention:

1. The world is getting more and more safe - and is a better place to live in than ever before.

2. http://theworstthingsforsale.com. What does it sound like?

3. What's killing the British pub? This one hits close to home.

4. Does the price of bitcoin matter? And what's the difference between Bitcoin and bitcoin?

5. Josh Barro's take on President Obama's proposal to tax 529s.