A personal announcement coming up this afternoon so stay tuned

• The Long-Term Cost of Feckless Policy (Jared Bernstein at NYT)
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• The GIGO Jobs Report (Felix Salmon at Reuters)
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• Do Political Campaigns Even Matter? (Ezra Klein at Bloomberg)
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• On Douthat on Disruption (Austin Frakt at The Incidental Economist)

• Graham, Rubio and the Tea Party Intimidation Factor (Ed Kilgore at The Washington Monthly)
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• Twitter Sold Some Stock (Matt Levine at Bloomberg)
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• Focus on Jobs, Democrats. Jobs (Ryan Cooper at The Plum Line)
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• Here’s How the Economy was Doing Before Congress Decided to Shut Down the Government (Neil Irwin at Wonkblog)

• Virginia Race Not a Referendum on Obamacare, After All (Greg Sargent at The Plum Line)
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• No, Robert Sarvis Did Not Cost Cuccinelli the Election (Sean Davis at The Federalist)
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• The Workforce Is Even More Divided By Race Than You Think (Derek Thompson at The Atlantic)
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• No, Crime Is Not Going to Start Soaring Under Bill de Blasio (Kevin Drum at Mother Jones)