- Economist John Taylor likes to bring a guitar to lecture when he teaches about business cycles.
- While you're at Taylor's blog, Economics One, Taylor assigns some required reading - a 1988 Hoover working paper by Milton Friedman (E-88-48) describing the "plucking model" of business cycles. Also two graphs, curated by Taylor, that provide more evidence on how government action is interfering with the usual "plucking" response and holding back the economic recovery.
- Fouad Ajami traveled to Turkey with Anderson Cooper to meet Syrian families living in refugee camps.
- "Michael Sandel Is Wrong on Markets...and (no surprise!) Tom Friedman is wrong, too." It's too bad Richard Epstein never tells us what he really thinks.