Hard predictions at the asymptotes, union version
Shorter story of the Wisconsin conflict over collective bargaining, Yglesias Depressing Version: [T]he classic postwar American dynamic of an economy with a large minority of the workforce unionized is fundamentally unstable. In the long-run the two equilibria are toward a non-union economy or else toward the Nordic model where virtually everyone is in a union. […]
New York Times describes the fall of the blog
The death of the blog was announced today by the paper of record: Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter. I’d say more, but I’m approaching my character lim