WonkPM: Your afternoon update from Wonkblog for August 20, 2013

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View on the Web. Tuesday, August 20, 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. Study: Budweiser, Colt 45 most popular beers among ER patients If you have ever wondered what type of beer is most strongly associated with an emergency room admission, well, wonder no more. For a full year, researchers spent their Friday and Saturday nights at the Johns Hopkins hospital emergency department … Continue reading → Peggy Noonan attacks Obamacare for doing what Peggy Noonan wants Obamacare to do “This is the reason many people don't like ObamaCare,” wrote Peggy Noonan. She’s probably right. But not in the way she thinks. Noonan’s column is a beautiful example of a writer so intent on criticizing Obamacare that she’s missed the fact … Continue reading → Private colleges are boosting aid – for the rich One of the more alarming trends in higher-ed financing in recent years has been the startling increase in merit-based and other institutional aid for upper-middle-class and rich college students. As Stephen Burd of the New America Foundation has pointed out, … Continue reading → Why the White House is uneasy with picking Janet Yellen as Fed chair Many of the economic advisers whom President Obama consults with favor Larry Summers to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve. But what is it, exactly, that they have against Janet Yellen, the current No. 2 leader of the … Continue reading → These 20 cities have the most to lose from rising sea levels The world’s coastal cities will change a lot between now and 2050. They’ll get wealthier, for one. Many of them will add millions more people. And some, like New Orleans, will continue sinking into the ground, thanks to things like … Continue reading → Sunny Obama, the new White House puppy, in charts   On Monday night, the White House announced the addition of a new and decidedly adorable resident: puppy-in-chief Sunny Obama. Sunny will provide pooch-in-chief Bo with the “dog interaction” that first lady Michelle Obama has told reporters he was lacking. For … Continue reading → The SEC is now demanding that companies admit wrongdoing. That's a big deal. For many years, the Securities and Exchange Commission was a pretty nonjudgmental beast. When pursuing enforcement actions, it usually didn’t demand that its targets formally admit they did anything wrong, on the theory that it allowed for higher settlements that got … Continue reading → Health costs are growing really slowly. Americans haven't noticed. Ask any health economist and they’ll no doubt tell you that health care cost growth is slowing, growing at a low, unprecedented rate. They can point to the National Health Expenditures report, which shows health care costs now growing at … Continue reading → Which economist do you agree with most? Take this quiz to find out! Brian Eno once quipped that even though The Velvet Underground & Nico album sold around 30,000 copies in its first five years, every single one of those 30,000 people started a band. The IGM Economic Experts Panel is like the The Velvet Underground … Continue reading → How Elmore Leonard wrote all his books Sad news this morning: Elmore Leonard, the legendary crime novelist, has died at the age of 87. You can read his full obituary here, but also check out this fun tidbit from a 2008 Washington Post profile on how Leonard … 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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