| View on the Web. |  | Tuesday, July 2, 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. |  | Davis Polk, a law firm that tracks rulemaking mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, is out with its latest progress report, and the results sound pretty dismal. About 70 percent of the 398 deadlines have … Continue reading →
Could getting more women in the workforce be the key to a stronger and more stable global economy? Some leading thinkers, including at the International Monetary Fund, argue exactly that. "Growth is the lens through which we view the issue of … Continue reading →
Ruchir Sharma is the author of Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles (which was excerpted by Wonkblog here), as well as head of emerging markets and global macro at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He spends much of his time … Continue reading →
It's a monumental battle of wills, money and egos. The oil giant Chevron, the third-biggest U.S. company by revenue, has sued Patton Boggs, the nation's premier legal and lobbying firm, for concealing and promoting fraudulent information in a case that was … Continue reading →
July 1 has come and gone: Welcome to the post-Google Reader world. For some of us, it is a poorer one, since we’ve had to re-wire our brains to consume words through a different filtering device. Others, like Ezra, have … Continue reading →
Here’s a picture of the hotel in Tanzania where President Obama stayed during his trip through Africa this week: Notice anything? My colleague David Nakamura, who traveled with Obama, reported that their hotel had a few kinks: ”I’m staying in the … Continue reading →
On Monday we brought you a mid-year update on how the U.S. economy is doing so far in 2013, showing continued growth but not the rapid liftoff that millions of unemployed Americans would like to see. But what are the … Continue reading →
Because, YOLO? (hat tip: Buzzfeed)
The Winklevoss brothers, best known for their long-running dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook’s origins, have gotten into Bitcoin in a big way. They’ve said they hold about 1 percent of the world’s supply of Bitcoins, and they’ve become active … Continue reading →
Yesterday, Lisa Rein and David Fahrenthold had a great story about which of the Obama administration’s 48 dire predictions actually came true (the answer: 11). The easiest way to understand what happened and what didn’t is their graphic that goes … Continue reading →
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