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 |  | |  | | View on the Web. |  | Wednesday, July 31, 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. |  | | | On Monday, I asked Father Bill Dailey, the Thomas More Fellow at Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics & Culture and a wise and humane priest of my acquaintance, what he thought of Pope Francis’s tenure so far. His response follows. Much … Continue reading → | | | | When I wrote my article on the subtle, sexist whispering campaign against Janet Yellen, my example of a rare not-so-subtle sexist comment came from Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve. Asked about Yellen on CNBC, he worried that … Continue reading → | | | | In a meeting with Democrats on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, President Obama reportedly mentioned three, and only three, names in discussing his job to select a nominee to lead the Federal Reserve. The relative merits of Larry Summers and Janet … Continue reading → | | | | Welcome to Health Reform Watch, Sarah Kliff's regular look at how the Affordable Care Act is changing the American health-care system — and being changed by it. You can reach Sarah with questions, comments and suggestions here. Check back every Monday, … Continue reading → | | | | There’s a problem with reporting on the Fed chair race: Janet Yellen’s supporters will talk on the record. Larry Summers’s supporters, by and large, won’t. That’s in part because his key supporters are concentrated in and around the Obama administration, … Continue reading → | | | | Is technological progress slowing down? It’s a plausible theory. As Paul Krugman once pointed out, households went from cooling food with ice brought by horse-drawn carriages and not even having access to radio or electricity in 1918 to having electric … Continue reading → | | | | Americans aren’t suddenly saving a lot more of their incomes. But it looks that way, thanks to a change in how the federal government accounts for pension plans — a change that, if you’re not careful, could lead you to … Continue reading → | | | | When the Commerce Department reported the latest numbers on U.S. economic growth Wednesday morning, it was received with cheers. Gross domestic product rose at a 1.7 percent annual rate in the spring months! And that is a higher number, you … Continue reading → | | | | 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. "Get rid … Continue reading → | | | | "We trust, of course, that this usage was inadvertent and will be avoided in the future." “The move is likely to slash prices for the fertilizer potash.” “What really puzzled me about this formula—as I sat through video after video, … Continue reading → | | | | | |
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