To Extend or Not to Extend – Unemployment Benefits

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/10/07/long-term-joblessness-likely-to-spur-unemployment-extension-fight/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/business/some-unemployed-find-fault-in-extension-of-jobless-benefits.html

Meanwhile, David Brooks considers the pace of innovation

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/opinion/brooks-where-are-the-jobs.html

US Jobs Report

Expanding Universe and the Physics Nobel Prize

Times Higher Education - Top Universities in the World

Caltech is #1

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011-2012/top-400.html

Interesting and Timely Economic News

Tom Friedman on Technology, Globalization & the Future

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-did-the-robot-end-up-with-my-job.html

College Graduates – Unprepared?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-unprepared-graduates/2011/09/30/gIQAJGYBBL_story.html

Tyler Cowen on the Need for Realistic Fiscal Stances

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/business/economy/antitax-ideas-could-have-unintended-results.html

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Take on Class Warfare

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rich-people-demonized-for-flaunting-their-wealth-are-under-attack/2011/09/28/gIQAcJn4AL_story_2.html

Greeks Resort to Bartering

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/world/europe/in-greece-barter-networks-surge.html

(Re-)Introduction to Swami

Swami Vivekananda

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/how-yoga-won-the-west.html

US Tax Reform Debate

Roger Lowenstein on Buffett and the Tax Debate

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-30/buffett-s-moral-foundation-shapes-tax-idea-commentary-by-roger-lowenstein.html