Factfulness

Tim Harford's review of Factfulness - Hans Roslings book. If you don't know who Hans is check out some of his TED talks and his Gapminder

website.

I would highly recommend Hans Rosling for his insightful view of the world, his use of statistics and his overall presentation. 

Latte Index

You may have heard about the Big Mac Index as a way of seeing if currency is over or under valued. Here is another one called the Latte Index.

Student Assessment and Data Mining

I am not sure if I agree with everything in this article but it raises some important questions especially with the SEL assessments that are happening.

Climate Change and Carbon Pricing

Here is the report Clearing the Air. It goes over how the carbon tax works.

Career Questions????

Not sure what you want to do. Check out 80000 hours.

Is it time to break up the tech giants such as Facebook?

Should Apple, Facebook and Google be broken up? Article from The Guardian.

Someone failed Econ 101

You may have seen this tweet

Donald J. Trump

✔ @realDonaldTrump

When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy!

2:50 AM - Mar 2, 2018 

Take a look at the way tariffs work and how they increase prices. Trade Wars like all Wars are BAD.

Interesting article from the Guardian about US tariffs and the Great Depression.

Here is Paul Krugman's take on Trump's latest.
And another column by Krugman.