WonkPM: Your afternoon update from Wonkblog for July 25, 2013

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View on the Web. Thursday, July 25, 2013 WonkPM is your afternoon update of the latest posts on Wonkblog. WonkPM is a supplement to your morning Wonkbook newsletter. If you'd like to opt-out from receiving WonkPM, please click here. Larry Summers isn't popular in the blogosphere. But he's got friends in high places. As far as I can tell, there’s almost no one in the economics blogosphere who wants to see Larry Summers named as Ben Bernanke’s replacement. The bulk of opinion ranges from relative indifference between the two candidates (“as we know … Continue reading → Yellen vs. Summers: Who would be a better Fed chair? The president's decision on whom to nominate to be the next Federal Reserve chair increasingly appears to be coming down to Larry Summers and Janet Yellen. Ezra describes well what appears to be the state of play here: The president, … Continue reading → Republicans had a plan to replace Obamacare. It looked a lot like Obamacare. Remember “repeal and replace”? That was the Republican party’s 2010-vintage response to the Affordable Care Act. It wasn’t that they opposed the idea of universal health care; they just thought that the Obama administration and their allies in Congress went … Continue reading → Don't you wish this 'Daria' trailer was for a real movie? My teenage self is very, very excited about this College Humor trailer for a (sadly) fake movie in which Daria Morgendorffer returns to Lawndale High for her 10th high school reunion. CollegeHumor’s Favorite Funny Videos NSA snooping is hurting U.S. tech companies' bottom line There has been a lot of speculation that the revelations about NSA surveillance program PRISM damaged the credibility of U.S. tech companies, especially with international clients who were the primary targets of the snooping operation. But now it’s starting to … Continue reading → Obama says the typical family income 'barely budged' between 1979 and 2007. It grew at least 15 percent. During his big economic speech Wednesday, President Obama declared, “The link between higher productivity and people's wages and salaries was severed – the income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, while the typical family's barely … Continue reading → Justin Amash almost beat the NSA. Next time, he might do it. Last night’s remarkably close House vote on the NSA’s bulk surveillance program can be read one of two ways. You could say it was a symbolic win for the agency’s critics. Or you could say the House rejected an attempt … Continue reading → Watch out, Republicans! You're helping Obamacare succeed. Republican opposition to Obamacare is, Norm Ornstein writes this morning, “spinning out of control.” “What is going on now to sabotage Obamacare is not treasonous — just sharply beneath any reasonable standards of elected officials with the fiduciary responsibility of … Continue reading → Today's hearing on innovation and copyright is short on innovators Earlier this year, the House Judiciary Committee launched a “comprehensive review” of copyright law. Today, the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet is having a hearing on the role of copyright in innovation. But the line-up is looking a … Continue reading → Wonkbook: The White House wants Summers for the Fed. But will they actually choose him? Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here. Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog. I think … Continue reading → Follow Ezra Klein:     You are receiving WonkPM as a supplement to your morning Wonkbook newsletter. If you no longer wish to receive WonkPM, or would like to unsubscribe from Wonkbook entirely, click here. ©2013 The Washington Post 1150 15th St NW Washington, DC 20071 Help & Contact Info Privacy Policy

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