Interesting Items 8/26/2013

Technology and the Middle Class – (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - David Autor and David Dorn provide a careful analysis of the links between technological developments and jobs)

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/how-technology-wrecks-the-middle-class/

Gary Shilling on Long-Term US Growth Prospects
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-25/rapid-u-s-growth-is-missing-not-gone-forever.html

France Suffers Long Term Economic Decline

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/world/europe/a-proud-nation-ponders-how-to-halt-its-slow-decline.html

Brazil and Mexico – The Two Largest Latin American Economies

http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21584011-although-neither-good-odour-markets-brazil-and-mexico-are-different-growth

Paul Krugman on the Decline of Microsoft

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/opinion/krugman-the-decline-of-e-empires.html

Hostages to Big Banks

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/opinion/were-all-still-hostages-to-the-big-banks.html

Role of the State

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/23/surveillance-state-debate-goes-on

Peggy Noonan’s piece in the WSJ - 'A Nation of Sullen Paranoids'

http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html

A Reason for the Rest of the World to Get Rid of the Dollar Standard –

A legacy of a dollar dominated international financial system: The Fed only cares about US concerns but its actions impact the rest of the world; quite often, the rest of the world is left to clean up the global mess resulting from Fed’s policy experiments.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-25/fed-officials-rebuff-coordination-calls-as-stimulus-taper-looms.html