WonkPM: Your afternoon update from Wonkblog for August 23, 2013

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View on the Web. Friday, August 23, 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. The NSA paid Google and Facebook millions to spy on taxpayers Inside the last-minute scramble to stand-up Obamacare 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 → Al Gore and 'Category 6 hurricanes' On Wednesday, I published an interview with Al Gore in which he mentioned that the scientific community was beginning to consider Category 6 hurricanes. The line has attracted some criticism because there are no official plans to add a sixth category … Continue reading → Why the Fed's bond-buying may not have helped the economy In a paper presented Friday morning at the Kansas City Fed’s Jackson Hole economic symposium, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen look at how the trillions of dollars in bond purchases by the Federal Reserve affect markets and the economy. And they find, in … Continue reading → How Goya brought ethnic food to white America About a year ago, in Washington's Mount Pleasant neighborhood, an independent grocer called Bestway changed hands. The new owner is In Suk Pak, a South Korean by way of Pennsylvania. He renamed the store Bestworld, replacing the second word of … Continue reading → Wildfires are getting worse. Why is Congress so unprepared? Plenty of experts think Western wildfires will keep getting costlier in the years ahead, thanks to both global warming and a sharp uptick in the number of Americans who live in fire-prone areas. Yet the federal government seems unprepared for … Continue reading → Microsoft's decline wasn't Steve Ballmer's fault These four charts show why job growth has been so weak Robert Hall of Stanford presented an assessment of why the housing crash and financial crisis caused such sharp and prolonged economic pain this morning at the Kansas City Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo. It is worth reading, … Continue reading → How the NSA spied on Americans before the Internet These three paragraphs say everything about Obamacare Huffington Post’s Jason Cherkis spent two days at the Kentucky State Fair with workers from Kynect, the state’s health marketplace. He came back with a better understanding of deep-fried Kool Aid (“funnel cake dough flavored with the powdered drink mix”) … 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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