Chris Garlock and Jay Gordon joined Jesse & i
Links:
Bitcoin (anonymous, peer-to-peer, electronic payments system)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
- http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-12/first-bitcoin-now-gold-all-alterantive-currencies-must-be-crushed
- http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/what-is-bitcoin-explained
The Reinhart-Rogoff fiasco in which the seminal paper behind austerity policies (tax cuts for rich + cost-cutting for everybody else) is exposed as shockingly sloppy.
- Conservative pov: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21576362-seminal-analysis-relationship-between-debt-and-growth-comes-under
- Liberal pov: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/other-austerity-bloopers/
Punkonomics (@DearBalak) 