How Tariffs Work and Why China Won't See a Bill

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/how-tariffs-work-china.html

Surprising Formula for Becoming an Art Star

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-surprising-formula-for-becoming-an-art-star-1541704849

A Week as a Legal Sex Worker

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/week-legal-sex-worker-booked-160000200.html

Doctors are surprisingly bad at reading lab results

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/10/05/feature/doctors-are-surprisingly-bad-at-reading-lab-results-its-putting-us-all-at-risk/?noredirect=on

Cool Chart: Big 5 Book Publishers

https://almossawi.com/big-five-publishers/

Person's Location Capacity = 25

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/06/28/at-any-given-time-in-their-lives-people-have-two-dozen-regular-haunts

The 8 Best Predictors of the Long-Term Market

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-8-best-predictors-of-the-long-term-market-1533521521

How to Have Sex in a Canoe

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/magazine/how-to-have-sex-in-a-canoe.html

Gravity Model of Trade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_model_of_trade

Hedonic Editing

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-012-9379-6

The Pursuit of Healthier Offices

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/business/healthy-office-real-estate.html

Examing the Local Value of Economic Development Incentives

https://www.brookings.edu/research/examining-the-local-value-of-economic-development-incentives/

Do Pipelines Really Create Lots of Jobs?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/opinion/environment-pipelines-jobs-carbon.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FKeystone%20XL&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

How Bad is Political Partisanship?

A 2016 paper says that partisanship among America's lawmakers is higher today than at any point since Reconstruction after the Civil War.

"In 1990, the probability of correctly guessing a lawmaker's party from a one-minute speech was 55%...by 2008, the probability of correctly identifying a Democrat or Republican had jumped to 83%"

http://www.nber.org/papers/w22423

The leaked NSA Spy Tool That Hacked the World

EternalBlue:
https://www.wired.com/story/eternalblue-leaked-nsa-spy-tool-hacked-world/

The World's Most Traded Goods

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/the-top-importers-and-exporters-of-the-world-s-18-most-traded-goods

Descendants of Holocaust Survivors Have Altered Stress Hormones

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/descendants-of-holocaust-survivors-have-altered-stress-hormones/

Quote of the Week

"The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works."

-Former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya

40% Rule - How Pundits Never Get it Wrong

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-do-pundits-never-get-it-wrong-call-a-40-chance-1519662425

Problems with the Political Risk Industry

https://inkstickmedia.com/clickbait-charts-nowhere/

Lobbying Doesn't Help Companies or Their Shareholders

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-11/lobbying-doesn-t-help-companies-or-their-shareholders