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

Outsmarting Our Primitive Responses to Fear

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/well/live/fear-anxiety-therapy.html

Link Between Alcohol and Cancer?

It's not as scary as it seems...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/upshot/health-alcohol-cancer-research.html

FDI in Manufacturing

https://www.selectusa.gov/servlet/servlet.FileDownload?file=015t00000000gKi

and

Making it in America: Revitalizng US Manufacturing

https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/americas/making-it-in-america-revitalizing-us-manufacturing

Can Congress Stop Trump from Eliminating NAFTA?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/26/16505508/nafta-congress-block-trump-withdraw-trade-power

How Powerful is the Head of the JCT?

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/the-most-important-voice-in-the-tax-wars-223752

How Long Does It Take to Conclude an FTA with the US?

https://piie.com/blogs/trade-investment-policy-watch/how-long-does-it-take-conclude-trade-agreement-us

Why You Crave Tomato Juice In-Flight

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/08/explore-flight-heightens-umami-taste/

Harard on why Politics is Failing

http://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/research/Pages/research-details.aspx?rid=83

Map: Where US Troops are Stationed Around the Worrld

https://www.axios.com/where-u-s-troops-are-stationed-around-the-world-2476308580.html

How to Fix Global Warming, Dan Ariely Style

http://danariely.com/2017/08/05/ask-ariely-on-interrupting-the-internet-involving-ideologies-and-admiring-air-travel/

How the US Government Tests Its Nuclear Bombs

http://www.newsweek.com/nuclear-bomb-day-earth-sank-645112

Decision-Making and Testosterone

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/made-some-bad-decisions-blame-it-on-testosterone?utm_content=bufferf7eac&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Federal Rulemaking Taking Longer Than Ever

https://www.citizen.org/sites/default/files/unsafe-delays-report.pdf

Money Can Buy Happiness if You Buy Time

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-money-time-happiness-20170724-story.html

Quality of Care Sale Data is Awful

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-08-01/who-really-bought-a-car-in-july

The Stolper-Samuelson Theorem

https://www.economist.com/news/economics-brief/21703350-third-our-series-looks-stolper-samuelson-theorem-inconvenient-iota

Margin of Error in Polls

Plus or Minus 3 Points is usually wrong...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/upshot/when-you-hear-the-margin-of-error-is-plus-or-minus-3-percent-think-7-instead.html

The Payoff to America from Globalization

https://piie.com/publications/policy-briefs/payoff-america-globalization-fresh-look-focus-costs-workers

What Makes Humans Unique?

We contemplate the future.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/sunday/why-the-future-is-always-on-your-mind.html

Do Targeted Sanctions Work?

The State Department weights in:
https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/267590.pdf

Flowchart: Permitting Process for US Federal Highway Projects

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/06/heres-the-huge-chart-donald-trump-is-dragging-around-to-show-how-hard-it-is-to-start-an-infrastructure-project.html

Chart: US Poverty Programs

https://twitter.com/AEI/status/876137392293498880

Is the Jones Act Costing You Money?

https://www.aei.org/publication/meet-the-jones-act/?utm_content=buffer15501&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Geopolitical Risk Has Little Stock Market Impact

https://piie.com/commentary/op-eds/historically-geopolitical-risk-has-had-little-market-impact

15 Best-Educated Congressional Districts and Why They Matter

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/upshot/this-list-of-well-educated-districts-explains-why-georgias-election-is-close.html

Replica Food in Japan

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21723163-digital-menus-and-food-blogs-are-taking-toll-plastic-replicas-how-sham-food-became-big

How the Federal Reserve Serves US Foreign Intelligence

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-fed-accounts-intelligence-specialrepo-idUSKBN19H198

Twitter & News

Via Farhad Manjoo:

"Twitter is making the news dumber.  The service is insider and clubby.  It exacerbates groupthink.  It prizes pundit-ready quips over substantive debate, and it tends to elevate the silly over the serious."

Do White House Meetings Boost a Firm's Market Value?

Benefits of political access:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-white-house-meetings-boost-a-firms-market-value-1494006706

Can Soda Soothe Your Stomach?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-fizzy-soda-help-an-upset-stomach-1494068403

Making Big $ Tweeting Facts

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/16/25-year-old-kris-sanchez-makes-500000-a-year-from-uberfacts.html

Underreported Stories

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/11/12/18850/fuel-nuclear-bomb-hands-unknown-black-marketeer-russia-us-officials-say

Oxford Comma Helps Win Labor Dispute

https://qz.com/932004/the-oxford-comma-a-maine-court-settled-the-grammar-debate-over-serial-commas-with-a-ruling-on-overtime-pay-for-dairy-truck-drivers/